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Pollack and his staff are also tailoring a number of the health plan's tactics to meet the special needs of the poor. Staffs of recruiters will travel through Mission Hill neighborhoods and encourage people to come in for check-ups and preventive care...
...angry liberals pressed them hard enough, the plan's administrators could come up with reasonable excuses for including so many affluent patients at a time when the poor are sicker and more desperate. Other health plans, Pollack might say, are famous for their "social conscience," and only 10 per cent of their patients are poor. So if the Harvard plan takes 20 per cent of its patients form Roxbury it must be twice as socially concerned...
From the beginning, the Harvard Health Plan has deliberately tried to make itself into a model. Tapping the medical wealth of the Boston area, the plan's designers could have cut several corners and come up with special features that would work well --in Boston. In the face of that temptation, the plan's reluctance to cut corners and develop special techniques shows how seriously it takes its role as a national health-care model...
Part of the reason for the health plan's national ambitions may come from the backgrounds of the men who direct it. Before he came to Harvard, Pollack had served as professor of administrative medicine at Columbia and director of Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Hospital Costs in New York. In his years in New York, Pollack used to buy medi- cal service plans for three million people. By the time he came to Harvard in 1965, Pollack says he "came with a national outlook...
...light of the parochial make-up of its corporation, the members of the health plan's board of directors come as a surprise. Several of them have Harvard connections--like Dr. Sidney Lee, another associate Med School dean, and Dr. Alonzo Yerby, director of Harvard's interfaculty program on health and medical care, and even John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics...