Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 65 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request Congress to enact legislation requiring Medicare to cover all oral anticancer drugs.

The American Cancer Society testified in support of this measure.

Your Committees find that some of the more effective anticancer drugs are not covered by Medicare and can be cost-prohibitive. Medicare coverage of oral anticancer drugs would assist many of the elderly with cancer and allow them to seek more effective treatment.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 65 and recommends its adoption.