Excerpt from Health Care Reform, Vol. 9: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress; President's Health Care Reform Proposals, Changes to the Medicare Program, November 23, 1993 Chairman stark. Good morning. If our guests could find seats. Today, the subcommittee continues its series of hearings on the administration's health care reform proposal. During this hearing, we will focus on issues related to Medicare savings in the Presi dent's health care reform proposal. The President's plan would achieve substantial savings through reductions in the rate of growth in the Medicare program. Accord ing to administration estimates, the President's health care reform proposal would achieve $124 billion in Medicare savings in the years 1996 through 2000. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.