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�T H E WHITE HOUSE
WAS HIN GTO N
October 3, 1994
Editor
San Francisco Chronicle
901 Mission Street
San Francisco, California 94103-2988
To the editor
Your recent article siccusing Congressman Pete Stark of helping to defeat health care reform
seriously distorts his actual contribution. The White House perspective is very different.
For many years, Congressman Stark has been a leading advocate of high-quality, affordable health
care for all Americans. As Chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, he has formed
clear views on how health reform should be accomplished, and he has worked extremely hard in the
Congress and with the White House to make the dream of health care for all Americans a reality.
It was in large part through his efforts that his Subcommittee and the full Ways and Means
Committee succeeded in adopting a health care reform proposal that would truly guarantee coverage
to all Americans, llie biggest barrier he, and the Administration, faced was solid partisan
opposition by Republican members. The Administration worked closely with the Committee, and
the President clearly indicated that he considered the Committee bill good legislation.
Congressman Stark's proposal differed in many ways from the Administration's original approach.
As someone who spent 16 years in the Congress, this came as no surprise to me. On any issue as
important and complex as health care reform, policy changes are made at each step along the
legislative process. The real issue is not the details but whether or not there is agreement c
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objectives, and whether or not policies accomplish those objectives.
There has never been any disagreement over objectives between Congressman Stark and the
Administration. Working together, the health care effort made substantial progress in the House. It
is ironic, to say the least, that representatives of special interests and extreme ideological opponents
of health carerefonnseek to blame Congressman Stark for the problems in passing health care
reform. Congressman Stark played a positive role; it was the special interests, not Congressman
Stark, that frightened the American people and their representatives with deceptive and often
inaccurate attacks. They bear the primary responsibihty for the failure to adoptreformthis year.
Leon E. Panetta
Chief of Staff
�To the editor:
Your recent profile on Congressman Pete Stark's role in health care reform so
significantly distorts an accurate understanding of Congressman Stark's real contribution that I
felt it necessary to respond to provide you readers with the White House point of view.
For many years Congressman Stark has been one of the leaders in Congress and in the
nation as an advocate of high quality, affordable health care for all Americans. As Chairman
of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, Congressman Stark has developed very clear
views on how health care reform should be accomplished. Over the past two years,
Congressman Stark has worked effectively within the Congress, and with the White House, to
try and make the dream of health care for all Americans a reality.
Largely through Congressman Stark's efforts, the House Ways and Means Health
Subcommittee, and the full Ways and Means Committee, succeeded in forming a consensus
behind a health care reform proposal which would truly guarantee coverage to all Americans.
This effort was made all the more difficult because of solid partisan opposition by Republican
members of the Committee. The Administration worked closely with the Committee, and the
President has clearly indicated that he considers both the Committee bill, and the House
leadership bill which is based largely on the Committee bill, good legislation.
Clearly the approach taken by the Administration in the Health Security Act differs in
many ways from the legislative product which Congressman Stark designed. This should
come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the legislative process. On any issue as
important and complex as health care reform, policy changes are made at each step along the
way. The real issue is whether or not there is agreement on objectives, and whether or not
policies accomplish those objectives.
There has never been any disagreement over objectives between the Administration
and Congressman Stark. Working together, the health care effort was able to make
substantial progress in the House. The effort by special interests, and ideological opponents
of health care reform like the Cato Institute, to blame Congressman Stark for the problems in
passing health care reform truly misses the point. These special interests succeeded in
frightening the American people and their representatives with deceptive and often inaccurate
attacks. To allow a profile of Congressman Stark based on these charges to go unanswered
would be unfair and inaccurate.
Sincerely,
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relentless, attacks on the Clinton reform plan planted doubts and fears
lhat played into Republican hands
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single Democrat for. its demise:
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broken wing," was" kept Werriighi in an
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he crossed the finish line Saturday at the
Great Gobbler Gallop that he had to be
tackled by his owners.. '- ;•
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Cuero, Texas, had to be carried across
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health reform effort.
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some l 342-p8ge plan that PreSiti'enC.
But-all of that'eame in 1994, after more
He had pushed through, smaller health' Clinton sent to Capitol Hill -that mfti$&: _ '
.than a year of verbal salvos by the liberal reforms that protected • laid-off workers But, ' with the notable exceptibn. of Sen'*'''.
congresaman, who is seekiivg a 12th term and cut Medicare payments to doctors and Daniel Patrick Moynihan', D-N.Y;, thefc^jftl';
in..November. He..':ridiculedboth -the .hospitals. •
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".From the very beglhniKg,' there was^ a. . own sweeping plan to make, health insur- •). .'"If • ypu're: looking at a .tradWClisa^
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determination on Stark's part that we're ance available to all, by expanding Medi- chairman of a subcommittee, you wouldn't.,
not gbing to have anybody tell us what to care. "'.
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think that would be the way he woql'd' Atf£'.
do," said one prominent healih" care lob- "., And he had become one of a handful on erate, particularly with a presideht of m
byist "What we're talking about- here. is Capifol Hill who truly understood the .com- . own party in office," said one HouseJDteW*'
the whole theme-of not being a team plexities of the U.S. health .system,
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Stark says he has nothing tb apologize; most anyone on the Hill. And Clinton ig- that Stark's verbal jousting-had any leffict. ;
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That it^-was substance h«:. was cijt- no investment! in the Clinton plan and no cial intenesta and Republicans.
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That Washington runs on Sipirited dil- ' Tamer.
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ferencea of opinion.
Magaziner quickly became the focus of obviously it's not pleasant. But' I dori t..
.And that •eventually • everyone agreed Stark's frustration.
• think.that's had anything to do wit^'!^: '
that the massive Clinton' plan was fatally
Stark- contemptuously^ dismissed the failure of health reform at all," said'Mag- '
flawed, as he had argutd from the begin-,, gangly, tpusled-halred health czar as a pre- aziner. "I think his rols and his cotitrifeit''.
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"I'm flattered .that (critics) l;hink that I ' litical naif with a hopelessly ple-lh-the-eky
"He got himself ink ail througlyUgg^
could have destroyed tt all by myself,.but vision of what was possible in healthre-.
mostly by taldng' pot shots at the Whitiu
the truth is . . . the Clinton healthTplanC .•. form.had no support anywhere," he said.
''He's reinventing the marahmallaw," House' effort,!' said one former "^J^r
While that'it. now common wisdom, it '. - Stark said of Magaziner's huge task force. House health aide. "He certainly bear? a!
was far from dear in early 1993, when .
He told the Wall Street Journal that Ca^ share of the blame for the collective '{$$0: .
polls showed strong public support, for • pitol Hill staffers were calling Magaziner of serious health reform . . . becauge'h^.
chose very early on to play personal poii-"
broad reforms, including coverige for the "the Fairy Dust King."
country's 39 million uninsured.
After a time, Stark'refused to be in the
Stark dismisses the charge asTSour,
It was then that Stark, '3 lanky MIT,' same room with Magaziner.
graduate and a self-made millionaire
"Clearly Pete and Ira had a very very grapes and points to his bill as evide^&^f,'
known for his biting wit, launched his first, difficult situatior," said one Stark subcom- both his shrewd politicking and his. good;
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verbal assaults on the new Democratic aA.' mittee colleague.
"The White House bill was never seHministiption's plans to revamj) one-sevStark's relationship with the first lady
enth of the economy:
was better. He -respected her political : ously considered by any group'of legit'
.'. Starkr-an'ardentr'backer of a govern- . savvy and she.his expertfeeT'•. "'. .'"' v, . lators .on the hill. And:my bill was.^jd;:; '
ment-financcd health s^em,sp'iblicly ;de-.'., < ""Mis. Clinton and Congressman,Stark '.'critidsms . . . turned out to be right.$£113,"
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plored'"'"mahageii c'ompetltibii," 'the'' -worked dosely on'health, care. She reinteDectual concept that President Clinton spects the congressman's commitment,", paign against" Clinton reform drew. attCT*:.
had embraced as a means to Ms goal of said the 'first lady's press secretaiy, Lisa. tion, Stark echoes\the White Hbui!g J ^ .
that it was Republicans'and special »irrter«-'Caputo.'
universal coverage.
But nonetheless, Stark had problems ests who sank reform.
Managed competition . theorists said
that a mix of .market forces , arid govemr. with thefirstlady's approach.
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. asked MS- for any input," Stark said re.'as "the domestic equivalent of Star Wars,"
the failed Reagan-era sp^ct-bascd defense' cently.. "We Sever get . V talking about' FROM STAfF. REPORTS'
system, saying that it existed only in .the anything except great generalities."
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minds of its backers. .
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cake, my brother got, to. pick: the .first • conference and, ,to a room , packed with
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piece/' Staik. said.. If the White House' key healthreporters,dubbed managed 'issues of. reform. • ..
The forum will beglrf 'at 6 p.m."ittfWwanted to develop "the broad outlines, of competition "like a unicorn... a beautiful
AT&T auditorium, 4400 Rosewood •Driverihealth tefotm, / that was fine: • But poll-, animal In fairyland, but unseen on Earth'." .
ticians on the Hill'should properly be left'. On Capitol Hill, Stark discredited the Reasahton.' Seating is llniited. . • •.. "W"tofleshout the details... r
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Clinton effort with other lawmakers.
But that was not to be.
,' In September,.after reading a descrip- $5 for meeting rooms with a doeied-ciriuL
'• .The Clintons had already appointed the tion of the. White House health plan', he TV. Toreserve'a . seat, caU 'iStepttfaie •
president's' old Oxford'..friend, Ira Mag- told the New.York Times: "I shake my Wright at:734-8600, Ext. 3333; '.;;;
.aziner, as. chief lieutenant to Hillary head in wonderment.! This, is like cold fu- ' Proceeds will be donated to ChiTdrenSj!
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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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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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White House Health Care Task Force
Health Care Task Force
Jack Lew
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2006-0885-F Segment 3
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Box 28
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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3/16/2015
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