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...Donna Shalala...
...that President Clinton is thinking about guaranteeing to all Americans. Its chief advocate: Tipper Gore, who heads the mental-health section of the White House task force. During a recent evening session in the Roosevelt Room, Clinton discussed the issue with Mrs. Gore, the Vice President, Health Secretary Donna Shalala and members of the mental-health working group. Joining the 90-minute briefing, Clinton questioned the advisers and listened closely as Mrs. Gore explained how many severely disabled Americans are going without help. "I know," said the President, telling the group that he had stopped to talk to mentally...
...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...