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For Release: June 3, 2003
FTC/DOJ Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy
Schedule for June 10-12, 2003 Sessions
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (DOJ) today released a detailed
schedule for the sessions of their joint hearings on health care and competition law and policy to be held
June 10-12, 2003. These hearings will be held at the FTC Conference Center at 601 New Jersey
Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. Morning sessions begin at 9:15 a.m. and end at approximately 12:30
p.m. Afternoon sessions begin at 2:00 p.m. and end at approximately 5:00 p.m.
Date |
Morning Session Topic |
Afternoon Session Topic |
| Tuesday,
June 10 |
Quality and Consumer Protection:
Market Entry |
Quality and Consumer Protection:
Market Entry |
| Wednesday,
June 11 |
Noerr-Pennington/State Action |
Long-Term Care/Assisted Living
Facilities |
| Thursday,
June 12 |
Financing Design/Consumer Information
Issues |
Information and Advertising |
The FTC and the DOJ also will hold hearings on June 25-26,
2003. An agenda for these
hearings will be released shortly. No sessions will be held during July and August 2003. Additional
hearings will be held September 10-12, 2003 and September 24-26, 2003.
As noted in the Federal Register notice announcing this event, any interested person may submit
written comments responsive to any of the topics to be addressed. Comments directed at a particular
subject considered during a particular session of hearings must be submitted no later than 45 days after
the date of that specific hearing session. Comments on broader subjects within the general scope of the
hearings may be submitted at any time after the publication of this notice, but no later than November
28, 2003.
Written comments should be submitted in both hard
copy and electronic form. Six hard copies of each submission should be addressed
to Donald S. Clark, Office of the Secretary, Federal Trade
Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20580. Submissions
should be
captioned: "Comments Regarding Hearings on Health Care and
Competition Law and Policy." Electronic submissions
may be sent by electronic mail to healthcare@ftc.gov. Alternatively, electronic
submissions may be filed on a 3-1/2 inch computer disk
with a label stating the name of the submitter and the name and version of the
word processing program
used to create the document.
Information about the health care hearings is available on the Web sites for the hearings,
http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/healthcarehearings/ and http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/hchearing.htm and from the
FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC
20580.
FTC MEDIA CONTACT:
Cathy MacFarlane
Office of Public Affairs
202-326-3657
FTC STAFF CONTACT:
David Hyman, Special Counsel
Office of the General Counsel
202-326-2622
DOJ MEDIA CONTACT:
Gina Talamona
Office of Public Affairs
202-514-2007
DOJ STAFF CONTACT:
William Berlin
Litigation I Section
202-616-5938
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