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...reduce staff size and to put Harvard's undergraduate public service systems through an artificially fabricated crisis is not [agreeable to myself or Epstein]," Johnson wrote in a memo to Nancy L. Maull, administrative dean to the faculty of arts and sciences and ah author of the report...
...meeting's outset, Nero distributed a three-page packet labeled in bold-face type "Questions for the Insurance Office." In the memo, Nero prepared her defense to charges leveled against her by Smith, who sent a letter to Nero's senior tutor this August recommending disciplinary action against...
...Start-Up Memo. Magaziner, the reform architect, knew reform would be an uphill struggle. In his initial memo to Mrs. Clinton, dated Jan. 26, 1993, he listed "likely criticisms" that the plan would generate: "Cost containment would be ineffective and have perverse results . . . Limiting spending on health-care through global budgets will lead to service rationing, and interfere with quality improvements and consumers' traditional freedom to spend . . . Universal coverage would involve redistribution of income and disrupt satisfactory arrangements for many Americans." To this Magaziner added an ironic warning to himself, which he apparently would forget: "The task force should plan...
...Land-Mines Memo. Magaziner was fond of listing the many political obstacles the plan would face in Congress. In early 1993 a memo, entitled simply "Landmines," fully anticipated the most potent arguments made against the plan. The employer mandate, the memo noted, would be criticized for "destroying jobs, driving many small companies into bankruptcy, fueling inflation, compromising competitiveness and forcing people to buy insurance when they may not want to do so." Similarly, it warned, the plan to create health-care alliances would be attacked as a "poor people's pool" and likened to "another layer of government bureaucracy interfering...
...times, task-force work bordered on the absurd. On March 16 he recalled that amid the frantic pace, Magaziner sent a memo to group leaders noting that 5,000 letters were arriving daily. "We need your help," Magaziner wrote. "Our goal is to answer this mail before our May deadline." On April 2, 1993, after being asked for details of savings from various price-control proposals, Ukockis participated in another silly session. "We sat around the table making guesstimates of the savings to be realized. It was an appropriate exercise for April Fools...