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Senate
Record of Committee Proceedings
Committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs
Relating to: establishing a publicly financed health care system for residents of this state, creating the department of health planning and finance, health policy board, regional health councils, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations.
By Senators Chvala, Decker, Burke and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Bock, Pocan, Carpenter, Young, Turner, Ryba, Miller, Morris-Tatum, Coggs, Boyle and Berceau.
April 11, 2001 Referred to Committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
February 20, 2002 PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Present: (8) Senators Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach, M. Meyer, Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.
Absent: (1) Senator Rosenzweig.
· Bobby Peterson, ABC for Health
· William Scanlou, Democratic Party of WI
· Hisam Goueli, Madison
· Dr. Christine Merritt, Madison
· Rev. Sue Moline Larson, Lutheran Office for Public Policy in WI
· Barbara Boehme, Middleton
· George Robson, WI United Methodist Fed. for Social Action
· Senator Chuck Chvala, 16th District
· Roger Chapman, Oregon
· Frank Newgent, Coalition for WI Health
· Chuck Neeson, Janesville
· Eugene Farley, MD
· Linda Farley, MD
· Cecil Findley, Madison Campus Ministry
· Estelle Katz, Milwaukee
· Bob Glaser, United Steelworkers of America
· Cynthia Hack, Verona
· Peter Blewett, Milwaukee Public Schools Bd of Directors
· David Newby, WI State AFL-CIO
· Velma Jones, Church Women United
· Paul Kusuda, WI NASW
· Cordelia Mayberry, Quaker Housing Tenant Assn.
· Mary Louise Young, Wauwatosa
· Katherine Wenban, Coalition for WI Health
· David Herszenson, American Medical Student Assn.
· James Foxhall, UW Medical School
· Deepthi Reddy, UW Medical School
· Todd Eisenberg, Middleton
· Ben Walker, Madison
· Kiram Prasad, Madison
· Heidi Kloster, Madison
· Mary Froemming, Middleton
· Sarah Knuteson, UW Medical School
· Leona Burknolder, Madison
· Grace Valentine, Madison
· June Forsyth, Coalition for WI Health
· Louise Lund, Madison
· James Lund, Madison
· Vernon Eid, WI Coalition for Health
· Wanda Ashman, Madison
· Deborah Stewart, Madison
· Susan Becker, Church Women United
· John Thomas, Madison
· Carl Johnson, Monona
· Thelma Johnson, Monona
· Alfred Meyer, Madison
· Radleigh Becker, Madison
· Lorene Ludy, Madison
· A Rowland Todd, Madison
· Constance Thurlow, Madison
· Joann Elder, Madison
· Andrea Frank, New Berlin
· Art Taggert, Epilepsy Foundation
· Mark Miller, Monona
· JM Baime, Gray Panthers of WI
· Jean Christie, Madison
· Rose Esaian, South Milwaukee
· Marie Carter, Madison
· Gregory Schmidt, La Crosse
· Sister Mary Gebhard, Eau Claire
· Casey Sprague, Madison
· Paul Beckett, Madison
· Bill Smith, NFIB
· Matt Sande, WI Health and Hosp. Assn.
· Pat Osborne, WALHI
· Louie Schubert, WI Assn. of Health Plans
· Elizabeth Schumacher, SMS
· Alice O'Connor, SMS
· James Buchen, WMC
· Ron Hermes, HIAA
March 15, 2002
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Committee Clerk