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...self-denying care with which the Boston planners have tried to build a national model might be pitiful if the rest of the nation paid no attention. But the relative wave of excitement that has swept through the American medical community since the Harvard plan was announced suggests that Pollack may indeed be setting a pattern for national reform...
...Right away, any program that Harvard Medical School undertakes has a certain audience," Pollack said. When the plan was announced last November, it made front-page news all over the country. Since then, requests from medical planners have poured into Pollack's office. "There is an avid national interest in the plan," Pollack said last week. "We have already received many inquiries; I've already talked with several people interested in following ht 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...
...When Pollack arrived at the Med School and became an associate dean for Medical Care Planning, the idea of a community health program had already run through the Harvard discussion mill several times. As early as 1961, a committee working on plans for the new Affiliated Hospitals Center recommended that the Center incorporate some kind of new continuous-care pre-payment program as part of its responsibility to the community...
Most Med School officials say that Ebert did not leave Western Reserve because it was opposed to community-involvement health plans. The only evidence is circumstantial: Ebert came to Harvard, and after he became dean, the Med School's health plan finally came to life. Throughout 1965 and 1966, Pollack and others worked on the detailed planning necessary to develop the program. Talking with administrators, chiefs of staff, and insurance directors, the Harvard staff kept working on plans into 1967. Finally last November, Harvard University announced that its Medical School would operate the nation's first university-sponsored pre-paid...