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Health Care Task Force
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�ALLISON, SHERROq OWENS AND SIDDO
5910 Toole Rd. • Suite B • P.O. Box 51765 • Knoxville, TN 37950 • 615-:
W. GUY ALLISON. CLU, ChFC
H. W. "BUD" SHERROD, CLU, ChFC
EDWARD G. OWENS. CLU
GARRY A. SIDDONS, CLU. ChFC
October 18, 1993
The Honorable William J. Clinton,
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I would appreciate your response and any ideas you may have concerning another "crisis" in our
great country.
It has come to my attention that there are approximately 30 million "hungry" people in the United
States (compared to 30-35 million uninsured people). I am also aware that many grocery stores,
restaurants, food brokers, etc', are providing food to approximately 85r90% of our population
(similar to our health care industry).: This food is provided to anyone that will pay for it, with
money or food stamps(similar to health care). Many people tend to pay more for their food than
other people do (higher quality products or services), but is that always "fair"? Should we not find a
method to make it imperative that the "hungry" people get the same quality of food that the
"wealthiest" Americans buy (equal access). It should not be permitted for 5-Star restaurants to exist
only for the "wealthy", when there are "hungry" people not eating at all (unless they choose to
"fast" or diet on their own).
It is also evident that many abuses ars to be found in the food industry in the area of price fixing,
shortage problems, quality concerns, and most of all, lack of access, for 10-15% of our population.
This "crisis" should not be ignored.
Should we not mandate that every restaurant owner/manager serve the same food to everyone at the
same price? That seems "fair"!
Would it be the government's responsibility to make sure that every restaurant serve the same
number of people, .so as to regulate the income of each owner or will that be provided through a
government salary tor serving the "public good"? It seems as if you may be stopping this
government control idea too early.;:
Employee Benefits • Insurance • Financial Planning
�Mr. President
October 19, 1993
page two
I can see several areas that need this fairness doctrine applied. How about automobiles, clothing,
housing, jobs, etc.? I know this is being done indirectly through taxation and entitlement programs,
but as we al! figure out the main motive of "lairnsss", we just may start to wise up. Washington;
watch out!!
Mr. President, most of this letter, in my opinion, is in jest, but the similarities, in my mind, are
parallel to your concerns in the health care field. One big difference is that "hungry" people may
not have a choice. Your health care "needy" may or may net have decided to be health care
, "needy". I agree that reform, to a degree, is.needed; I do not agree that the Federal Government is
•:v>hr:r« it nt^ds'^vbtt ^ons.
This entire letter speaks of small: parts in a big puzzle. The big picture, if your programs are
adopted are the beginnings of a more "socialistic" society than we have now. 1 believe, and I hope
you can understand, that socialism does not work in this woild, but for some reason Congress, the
Senate, and yourself are trying to move us in that direction.
Let the food industry work out of their crisis, and also let the health care field work on theirs.
Sin;:eraly,
Garry Sidtfons, CL U, ChFC
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White House Health Care Task Force
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<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10443060" target="_blank">National Archives Catalog Description</a>
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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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White House Health Care Task Force
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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