Word: bergthold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Magaziner called his biggest conferences "tollgates," a management-theory term applied to meetings in which progress reports are delivered and course corrections made. Linda Bergthold, a private consultant from San Francisco, remembers them as "a cross between Ph.D. orals and the Spanish Inquisition." Members crammed a meeting room on the fourth floor of the Old E.O.B. until the room grew so crowded that they sat on the floor and windowsills and peeked in the door. A lack of coatracks forced members to dump wraps on the floor. At each session, task-force leaders would present their progress on, for example...
...policy-wonk heaven," said Bergthold, who noted that years of health-care ideas were being dusted off and hotly debated. And the details came together. Benefits moved fast: at a Saturday-morning session in the Roosevelt Room, a jogging suit-clad Clinton ordered Magaziner to come up with a standard benefits package as good as or better than that of the typical worker, which meant the plan had to emphasize preventive care, including physicals and baby checkups, and some controversial procedures like abortion. But it would exclude cosmetic surgery, eyeglasses and borderline therapies, such as weight reduction...