Excerpts from Task Force Documents
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Box Number: 1403 Date: To: all health care task force and working group psnl From: John D. Podesta, asst to pres and staff secy Title: Task Force and Working Group Records Summary: 1. must preserve all records; 2. may not delete electronic documents; 3. all property of White House and you may not take copies for any personal use or retention with permission of Marjorie Tarmey; 4. segregate TF from agency documents; 5. return all TF documents to intake center to Mary Schuneman, OEOB 287; identify general category of docs in each box Comment: Did Tarmey give permission to keep docs to all these people who returned them? What happened to list of categories? Classification: legal Participant(s): Dennis Steinauer Box Number: 1403 Date: 4/15/93 To: From: Title: Notes from meeting: speaking guidelines for HCTF members Summary: 1. Find out concerns of group and make them feel included; 2. Stick to GOALS of the HCTF and use the talking points; 3. Speak in generalities only; 4. Assume there is a reporter in the audience; 5. Use strong consistent arguments to sell the plan; 6. Do not speak to reporters unless cleared by Bob Boorstin; 7. Timeline: meetings with Pres April to mid -May; June public education and sale of the plan; Sept, real sale of the plan Comment: HCTF members were to be advocates not just consultants; public information to be narrowly circumscribed Classification: legal Participant(s): Dennis Steinauer Box Number: 1403 Date: 2/17/93 To: HCTF WG leaders From: John Hart Title: Weekly Status Reports/ Collection of Information Summary: every WG supposed to prepare a weekly status report, including meetings attended and documents generated Comment: Some status reports from WG IIIB found. Were they the only group who turned them in? Evidence of incomplete production? Classification: legal Participant(s): Dennis Steinauer Box Number: 1403 Date: 3/31/93 To: From: Title: handwritten list of White House WG on Information Systems and Administrative Simplification Summary: 38 names and telephone numbers; affiliations include Albertine Enterprise, SMS Corp, PCS health Systems, WEDI, Travelers, Cooperative Health Care Networks, First Health, NEIC, Aenta, BC/BS, CIS, numerous "Task Force" Comment: Not clear whether this was one of the meetings with outsiders and don't know how many meetings each attended Classification: legal Participant(s): Dennis Steinauer Box Number: 577 Date: To: From: Title: Researcher's notes Summary: big black three -ring books with names of everyone on TF/WG, includes structure of TF and listing of JHG, all participants, explains the JHG "Interactive" role; loose papers on the technology for a national health card; brown folder labeled "miscellaneous" empty except for tabs such as used for notebook dividers Comment: Evidence of missing information? Classification: legal Participant(s): Robert Berenson; Kathleen Hastings; James Jorling; Linda Reeves; William Sage Box Number: 577 Date: 4/12/93 To: David Eddy From: Sam Turner Title: Draft clinical trials coverage language on stationery of Fox, Bennett and Turner in D.C. Summary: "We are forwarding draft statutory language reflecting our discussion of last week including reimbursement for certain clinical trial costs as part of a minimum benefits package." Comment: TF product used in legislation; source of money for the institutions participating Classification: legal, substance Participant(s): Robert Berenson; Kathleen Hastings; James Jorling; Linda Reeves; William Sage Box Number: 577 Date: 2/10/93 To: All HCRWG members From: Ira Magaziner Title: Task Group Meeting Schedule Summary: schedule of task group meetings for the next three months Comment: He had to know who needed a copy; structure; tight organization Classification: legal Participant(s): Robert Berenson; Kathleen Hastings; James Jorling; Linda Reeves; William Sage Box Number: 577 Date: 2/17/93 To: HCTF WG leaders From: John Hart Title: Weekly status reports/ collection of information Summary: "We will collect these materials in the "war room" on the second floor of the OEOB, where we will also maintain an index of all materials. Upon receiving a request for information, we will either lead you to the relevant documents or make a request from the appropriate source." Comment: index prepared; where is it? Did all groups prepare their reports? Did we miss them? Classification: legal Participant(s): Robert Berenson; Kathleen Hastings; James Jorling; Linda Reeves; William Sage Box Number: 577 Date: 2/24/93 To: all WG members From: Ira Magaziner and Charlotte Hayes Title: Approval of entertainment, travel, or other activities Summary: "All personnel working on any working group must submit appropriate forms for prior approval of any payment by any entity, government or outside entity to White House Counsel, and Ira Magaziner (Charlotte Hayes)." all caps, big, bold print Comment: Did anybody get paid? Where are the forms? Classification: legal Participant(s): Robert Berenson; Kathleen Hastings; James Jorling; Linda Reeves; William Sage Box Number: 577 Date: 3/2/93 To: cluster group leaders and task group leaders From: Ira Magaziner and Lynn Martherio Title: cancelled meetings Summary: "The meeting schedule was put in place to ensure that everyone in the working group had advance notice of the meetings and could participate." asks for prior notification of cancellations Comment: structure Classification: legal Participant(s): Robert Berenson; Kathleen Hastings; James Jorling; Linda Reeves; William Sage Box Number: 577 Date: To: From: Tom Pyle? Title: Administrative Problems Summary: 1. Understanding chain of command; 2. Poor information from central office; 3. "Communications from central office should be in writing, particularly regarding employment of consultants, ethics rules and other important issues. There should be a compendium of pertinent govt rules; 4. adding new members disruptive; 5. should have written agenda for cluster leaders meeting; 6. need communications plan incl terminals for reading restricted docs Comment: Private entities may be required to send copies of the carrier manual regs when being subjected to govt investigations Classification: legal Participant(s): Robert Berenson; Kathleen Hastings; James Jorling; Linda Reeves; William Sage Box Number: 1185 Date: 3/24/93 To: From: Title: handwritten notes from LTC debriefing meeting and Pres meeting Summary: "RWJ public/private -- ? not sure Clinton understood it. Comment: Classification: substance Participant(s): Kevin J. Eckert Box Number: 1784 Date: 5/28/93 To: Pres and HRC From: An Informal Single Payer Group Title: Recommendations on Natl Health Care Reform Submission to the Pres and First Lady from ... Summary: 33 p summary plus long list of organizations supporting single payer; chairman Vicente Navarro Comment: what role did this group play? A shadow group? Classification: legal Participant(s): Michele Adler; Lawrence Gostin; Peter Hickman; Erik Johnson; Fitzhugh Mullan; Vincente Navarro Box Number: 1784 Date: 2/7/93 To: Paul Starr From: Jack Langenbrunner, OMB Title: follow up to short -term costs controls meetings Summary: "Ira Magaziner has done an excellent job of appointing cluster leaders with established legitimacy and authority." Several things promote single -payer expts in the states: "More bureaucratic and polit control in the state capitol, the appearance of 'simplification' and 'rationalization' and so on." "It is hard to think why states will prefer managed comp over single payer." Extension of an electronic hosp data base for risk mgt: MedisGRPS in PA, IA, CO or HCFA's Uniform clin data set Comment: key members favor single payer; IM in Feb knew who he was appointing as group leaders Classification: legal, substance Participant(s): Michele Adler; Lawrence Gostin; Peter Hickman; Erik Johnson; Fitzhugh Mullan; Vincente Navarro Box Number: 1784 Date: 6/7/93 To: HealthDivision From: Richard Turman Title: Report on Ira Magaziner Talk -Fest Today Summary: they handed out a draft speech for members of Congress; "Some have the cynical view that the Task Force ignored the work of the Working Groups. This is silly. Tollgate V, as amended by the auditors and the President, continues to form the basis of the plan." Comment: TF advised Pres Classification: legal Participant(s): Michele Adler; Lawrence Gostin; Peter Hickman; Erik Johnson; Fitzhugh Mullan; Vincente Navarro Box Number: 1416 Date: 6/1/93 To: Healthcare staff From: Ira Magaziner Title: The Healthcare Plan Summary: "Now that we have received some guidance on the healthcare policy, we must specify policy details in a number of areas so that final legislative drafting can proceed. I will schedule meetings this coming week with people responsible for each area. The attached schedule must be met to incorporate each of these section into the final plan." Last date on schedule is 6/13 Comment: Work extends into mid -June Classification: legal Participant(s): Risa Lavizzo -Mourey Box Number: 1416 Date: 3/23/93 To: David Eddy From: P. Tibbits Title: Line by line comments on "Paper for the Pres and First Lady" Summary: Comment: interaction of TF and Pres and HRC Classification: legal Participant(s): Risa Lavizzo -Mourey Box Number: 1416 Date: 3/23/93 To: From: Henry Krakauer Title: Comment on the Current Discussions Summary: "The proposed hcr is a radical restructuring of the health care system with major shifts in power and responsibility carried out under the auspices of the Federal Govt." Accountability will be required. "As time goes by, these directives will go down to the minutiae of the activities of the providers to make [sure] no one does anything wrong....This is the trap that the hcs...has fallen into. Its prime manifestation is the qa/ur process used to control and constrain medical practice." Comment: His suggestions have to do with electronic data standards for patient clinical records Classification: substance Participant(s): Risa Lavizzo -Mourey Box Number: 1416 Date: To: TF From: AMA Title: A proposal for using negotiations and the med profession's infrastructure to control costs, dissem infor, and bring about change Summary: "It will take sacrifice and shared responsibility...A true and focused partnership will have to be formed between physicians and govt.