The Committee held two days of hearings on the impact of the Administration’s Medicaid regulations on hospital emergency surge capacity and the ability of hospitals to respond to a mass casualty event, such as a terrorist attack using conventional explosives or natural disaster, on Monday May 5, 2008, and Wednesday May 7, 2008. A preliminary transcript of the Day 1 hearing is now available.


The following witnesses testified:


    • Day 1
    • Bruce Hoffman, Ph.D., Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University

    • Lisa Kaplowitz, M.D., Deputy Commissioner for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Virginia Department of Health
    • Roger Lewis, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
    • Jay Wayne Meredith, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
    • Colleen Conway Welsh, Ph.D., Dean, Vanderbilt School of Nursing
    • Day 2
    • The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    • The Honorable Michael Chertoff, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

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