SOURCE: www.help.senate.gov
WASHINGTON – Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced the Committee will meet on Thursday at 10:00 A.M.to examine how the Affordable Care Act protects consumers against insurance industry abuses. The hearing, entitled “The Affordable Care Act: The Impact of Health Insurance Reform on Health Care Consumers,” will be the first in a series of hearings the HELP Committee will hold in the coming months to examine how the health reform law benefits Americans.
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HEARING: The Affordable Care Act: The Impact of Health Insurance Reform on Health Care Consumers
WITNESSES:
Panel I:
- Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, United States Department of Health and Human Services
Panel II:
- Lisa Grasshoff, an employee of a home health company from Houston, TX, whose 20 year old son suffers from Hemophilia A and type III von Willebrand disease
- Emily Schlichting, a junior at the University of Nebraska from Omaha, NE, who suffers from a chronic autoimmune disease
- Christopher Koller, Insurance Commissioner, State of Rhode Island
- Joe Olivo, the President of Perfect Printing, Inc., a family-owned business in Moorestown, NJ
DATE: Thursday, January 27
TIME: 10:00 A.M.
LOCATION: 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building