Word: shalala
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...President began meeting with key members of the task force again over the weekend -- and not a minute too soon. He will have to preside over something of a split between the forces of the left, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, and those of the right, led by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. "Given their druthers," said an official, "the HHS crowd would rather have a ((government-run)) single-payer system with extreme regulation and cost controls. The economic types are worried about the economy, and so they want no cost controls and no regulation...
...hold down costs. Says John Moynahan Jr., executive vice president of MetLife: "There seems to be an almost inexorable drive toward regulation and price controls coming from people whose mind-set has historically been toward a federally run, single-payer national health- insurance system." Critics in particular single out Shalala, who supposedly salted the Administration's task force with allies eager to push the plan as far toward a single-payer system as they could. But a senior White House official ridiculed the criticism by the managed-competitio n purists and said, "Look, this is not going to be managed...
Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders will also be making the trip north from Washington to Cambridge to speak at various events June...
...give his young law clerk Hillary a ride home when she first worked in Washington; to Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell, who was the managing partner of her law firm and the former mayor of Little Rock. Hillary had a strong say in the appointment of pal Donna Shalala as Health and Human Services Secretary, although the friendship grew complicated after Hillary grabbed the health out of the Secretary's title and Shalala blurted out that a value-added tax was being considered...
...Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services since January, previously served as the first woman to head a Big Ten University as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She served from 1977 to 1980 in the Carter administration in the Department of Housing and Urban Development...