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NEWS from Hearing on VA/DoD health care sharing

Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:00 a.m. 

Witness List and Statements


Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL), right, and Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX), left, question the panels testifying on VA/DOD sharing.

Above, Dr. Thomas L. Garthwaite, VA's Deputy Under Secretary for Health, listens as Lt. General Paul K. Carlton, Jr., Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force, reads his statement. Their panel also included Gwendolyn Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Health Budgets and Financial Policy, Department of Defense. At right, Anthony J. Principi, Chairman of the Congressional Commission on Service members and Veterans Transition Assistance, emphasizes a point while answering a Committee Member's question. He was joined by Stephen P. Backhus, Director of Veterans' Affairs and Military Health Care Issues at the General Accounting Office's Health, Education, and Human Services Division.