The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release May 21, 1993

WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES HEALTH CARE AUDIT

In an effort to further assess the impact of health care reform options to be considered by the President, the White House announced that it has invited individuals from the legal, financial and health care industries to evaluate parts of the work of the President's Task Force on Health Care Reform.

The list of individuals is attached.

INDIVIDUALS LOOKING AT LEGAL ISSUES

Barbara Anthony

     Chief, Public Protection Bureau
     Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General

Mark Barnes

     Associate Commissioner for Medical and Legal Policy
     New York City Department of Health

Richard Briffault

     Professor
     Columbia Law School

Ed Goldman

     General Counsel
     University of Michigan Hospitals

Michael Graetz

     Professor 
     Yale Law School

Angela Holder

     Clinical Professor of Pediatrics (Law)
     Yale University School of Medicine

Barbara McGarey

     Deputy Director, Office of Technology Transfer
     National Institutes of Health

Kathryn Meyer

     Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel
     Beth Israel Medical Center
     New York, NY 

Peter Millock

     General Counsel
     New York State Department of Health

Betsy Ryan

     Chief of Staff
     New Jersey Department of Health

Marjorie Shultz

     Professor
     Boalt Hall School of Law
     University of California

Rick Slowes

     Assistant Solicitor General
     Office of the Attorney General of Minnesota
     
               INDIVIDUALS LOOKING AT COST ISSUES 

Howard Atkinson, Jr.
Atkinson & Co., Inc.
Silver Spring, MD

John Bertko
Coopers & Lybrand
San Francisco, CA

Phyllis Doran
Millman & Robertson, Inc.
Washington, DC

Brent Greenwood
Tillinghast/Towers Perrin
Minneapolis, MN

Dick Helms
The Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, IA

Rich Ostuw
Towers Perrin
Cleveland, OH

Ken Porter
The Dupont Company
Wilmington, DE

Jack Rodgers
Price Waterhouse
Washington, DC

ISSUES

Leonard Abramson
CEO, U.S. Health Care
Blue Bell, PA

Paul Batalden, MD
Vice President for Medical Care
Hospital Corporation of America
Nashville, TN

Ms. Ellen Gaucher MS, Nursing
Senior Associate Hospital Director and Chief Operating Officer University of Michigan Hospitals
Ann Arbor, MI

Ileana Herrell, PHD
Associate Administrator for Minority Health, Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Public Health Service

Hank Cauley
Consultant, Telesis
Providence, RI

Christine Kovner, PhD, Nursing Associate Professor, New York University NY, NY

Gordon Mosser, MD
Internist
Minnesota

Phil Nudelman
President & CEO, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound Seattle, WA

Norene Rickson
Consultant, Telesis
Providence, RI

Kathy Schroeder, MD
Associate Medical Director, William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI

Jack Stephens
President & CEO, Lakeland Regional Medical Center Lakeland, FL

G. Rodney Wolford
President & CEO, Alliant Health System
Louisville, KY