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June Cabinet Strategy
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�May 23, 1994
MEMORANDUM FOR HAROLD ICKES
CHRISTINE VARNEY
LAURA QUINN
FROM:
DANA HYDE
SUBJECT:
June Cabinet Health Care Strategy
Health care will remain the Cabinet's top White House priority during the month of June,
although the final push on the crime bill will require a good deal of Cabinet time and
attention. Cabinet Affairs will continue to coordinate with the Political Department and
other White House staff to ensure that our priorities are communicated and honored.
Outlined below is an action plan for the month. I strongly recommend we bring the Cabinet
health care working group (and perhaps expand it to other Secretaries^) in for a strategy
planning meeting after the recess. I will explore Monday, June 13th, as a possible date.
The agenda should be circulated in advance and include items from the Agencies. Eliciting
their proactive input is the best way to engage them and their resources over the summer
months.
MESSAGE
Fraud, Waste, Cost Containment: Cabinet events and activities will focus
primarily on these themes — as conceived and developed by the Delivery Room
Policy Staff. In general, activities surrounding the cost containment and fraud
message will be centered in Washington.
Employer Responsibility: We will continue to "tack on" employer
responsibility events to Cabinet travel in various parts of the country.
Working with Public Liaison we will identify supportive companies and build
press for Cabinet visits to these businesses.
o
Health Care Crisis: For Cabinet Secretaries that do not have a connection to
the employer responsibility theme (i.e. Cisneros, Babbitt, Espy), we will
encourage and schedule events which underscore the urgency and necessity of
fixing the current system - THIS YEAR!
�EVENTS
o
Fraud: I recommend we do a handful of carefully planned and actively
pitched fraud events with Cabinet members. Outlined below is a rough sketch:
WEEK OF JUNE 6TH: Policy announcement by the AG, Louis Freeh and
Secretary Shalala in the White House Press Briefing Room. Justice just
received Hill approval to reallocate 10% (I believed they requested 25%) of
their fraud resources solely to combatting health care fraud. They also just
signed some kind of cooperative inter-agency agreement for fighting health
care fraud. MAKE NEWS WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THESE
ITEMS. Underscore the magnitude of the problem.
WEEK OF JUNE 13TH: Follow up with a press roundtable on fraud hosted
by Secretary Shalala and the AG (or senior Justice person). Arm them with
statistics ~ hopefially broken down on a regional or state by state basis — of the
millions of dollars lost each year to health care fraud.
Note: It may make more sense to lead with the roundtable but the VP is
already scheduled to do a roundtable the week of the 6th.
WEEK OF JUNE 20TH: Schedule 2-3 fraud events with Cabinet Secretaries in
or around D.C. Focus on health care scams/indictments both in Medicare and
private industry.
LAST WEEK IN JUNE: Sentencing tentatively scheduled for the brothers
convicted of the billion dollar fraud scheme in LA. Build press around the
issue and the magnitude of the problem.
o
Waste, Cost Containment: Outlined below is a preliminary sketch of events:
HOSPITAL EVENTS - ADMINISTRATIVE WASTE: Fan out to local area
hospitals by 3-4 Secretaries in one day - walk through of the administrative
paperwork and processing nightmare.
EMERGENCY ROOMS - PREVENTION: Plan two such events with
Secretary Pena, both in Washington and outside in the country.
SMALL BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE: Roundtable of small business owners
with Bowles - discussion of their rising health care costs over the past few
years.
o
Employer Responsibility: Continue to build — whenever schedules permit ~
employer responsibility events into Secretaries' travel. Attached is a tentative
schedule of such events for the first two weeks of June.
�MEDIA ACTIVITIES
Over the past few months the Cabinet has maintained a steady stream of regional radio calls
and print interviews. The volume of these activities has increased or decreased with the
news; most Secretaries devote at least an hour a week to health care media in some shape or
form. While we will continue to book regional media time in June, we will also focus our
media efforts on the following:
o
White House Press Roundtables: Three Cabinet Roundtables, including a
fraud roundtable with Shalala and Reno the week of the 13th; a cost
containment roundtable with Panetta and/or Rubin and Tyson the week of the
20th; and a choice roundtable at the end of the month.
o
Agency Roundtables: Work with the Agencies to hold roundtable briefing
with 1) their trade association newspapers 2) their own beat reporters. The
exact message for the roundtables will be tailored to the Agency. A schedule
will follow.
o
Washington D.C. Media Push: In the past week both Fox Morning News and
CNN Moneyline have carried Rubin on the employer mandate. In June we
plan to work aggressively with Media Affairs to sell Cabinet Members on local
media and on national talk-shows.
o
Op-Ed Placement: A series of op-ed pieces on the employer mandate are
prepared and being sent out to papers. We are in the process of developing
similar op-eds on cost containment and will place these pieces during the
month of June.
CONGRESSIONAL OUTREACH
o
Phone Calls: By the time Congress adjourns for the recess the Cabinet will have
touched base by phone with each of their "assigned" members. Feedback from
their calls has been circulated to all legislative staff.
o
Lunches and Private Meetings: The next step in Congressional outreach will be
directing the Cabinet to hold lunches and/or private meetings with their assigned
members during the second and third week of June. A number of Secretaries have
already hosted these lunches at their agencies on other White House issues; the
feedback has been quite positive from both sides. The objective of these meetings
is to build relationship with key members while mark-ups are still ongoing.
o
Floor Action: Should votes arise at the end of the month, the Cabinet will launch
an all out effort of calls and visits to persuade targeted members.
�
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<p>This collection contains records on President Clinton’s efforts to overhaul the health care system in the United States. In 1993 he appointed First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to be the head of the Health Care Task Force (HCTF). She traveled across the country holding hearings, conferred with Senators and Representatives, and sought advice from sources outside the government in an attempt to repair the health care system in the United States. However, the administration’s health care plan, introduced to Congress as the Health Security Act, failed to pass in 1994.</p>
<p>Due to the vast amount of records from the Health Care Task Force the collection has been divided into segments. Segments will be made available as they are digitized.</p>
<p><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0885-F+Segment+1"><strong>Segment One</strong></a><br /> This collection consists of Ira Magaziner’s Health Care Task Force files including: correspondence, reports, news clippings, press releases, and publications. Ira Magaziner a Senior Advisor to President Clinton for Policy Development was heavily involved in health care reform. Magaziner assisted the Task Force by coordinating health care policy development through numerous working groups. Magaziner and the First Lady were the President’s primary advisors on health care. The Health Care Task Force eventually produced the administration’s health care plan, introduced to Congress as the Health Security Act. This bill failed to pass in 1994.<br /> Contains 1065 files from 109 boxes.</p>
<p><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0885-F+Segment+2"><strong>Segment Two</strong></a><br /> This segment consists of records describing the efforts of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to get health care reform through Congress. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, memos, papers, and reports. A significant feature of the records are letters from constituents describing their feelings about health care reform and disastrous financial situations they found themselves in as the result of inadequate or inappropriate health insurance coverage. The collection also contains records created by Robert Boorstin, Roger Goldblatt, Steven Edelstein, Christine Heenan, Lynn Margherio, Simone Rueschemeyer, Meeghan Prunty, Marjorie Tarmey, and others.<br /> Contains 697 files from 47 boxes.</p>
<p><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0885-F+Segment+3"><strong>Segment Three</strong></a><br /> The majority of the records in this collection consist of reports, polls, and surveys concerning nearly all aspects of health care; many letters from the public, medical professionals and organizations, and legislators to the Task Force concerning its mission; as well as the telephone message logs of the Task Force.<br /> Contains 592 files from 44 boxes.</p>
<p><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0885-F+Segment+4"><strong>Segment Four</strong></a><br /> This collection consists of records describing the efforts of the Clinton Administration to pass the Health Security Act, which would have reformed the health care system of the United States. This collection contains memoranda, correspondence, handwritten notes, reports, charts, graphs, bills, drafts, booklets, pamphlets, lists, press releases, schedules, newspaper articles, and faxes. The collection contains lists of experts from the field of medicine willing to testify to the viability of the Health Security Act. Much of the remaining material duplicates records from the previous segments.<br /> Contains 590 files from 52 boxes.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0885-F+Segment+5">Segment Five</a></strong><br /> This collection of the Health Care Task Force records consists of materials from the files of Robert Boorstin, Alice Dunscomb, Richard Veloz and Walter Zelman. The files contain memoranda, correspondence, handwritten notes, reports, charts, graphs, bills, drafts, booklets, pamphlets, lists, press releases, schedules, statements, surveys, newspaper articles, and faxes. Much of the material in this segment duplicates records from the previous segments.<br /> Contains 435 files from 47 boxes.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0885-F+Segment+6">Segment Six</a></strong><br /> This collection consists of the files of the Health Care Task Force, focusing on material from Jack Lew and Lynn Margherio. Lew’s records reflect a preoccupation with figures, statistics, and calculations of all sorts. Graphs and charts abound on the effect reform of the health care system would have on the federal budget. Margherio, a Senior Policy Analyst on the Domestic Policy Council, has documents such as: memoranda, notes, summaries, and articles on individuals (largely doctors) deemed to be experts on the Health Security Act of 1993 qualified to travel across the country and speak to groups in glowing terms about the groundbreaking initiative put forward by President Clinton in his first year in the White House. <br /> Contains 804 files from 40 boxes.</p>
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