Records on Health Care Reform

The materials in FOIA 1999-0118-F are a selective, not necessarily all inclusive, body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials. FOIA 1999-0118-F contains information on health care reform. The materials are divided into two major sections which are Bush Presidential Subject Files and the Bush Presidential Staff and Office Files. In addition, there is a small variety of Quayle Vice Presidential Staff and Office Files captured in this request that also reflect many various health care reform matters. 1999-0118-F 2 White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject Categories contain memoranda, letters, reports, newspaper clippings, press releases, and fact sheets concerning international health care comparisons with the United States; Native American health care; federal, state, and local health care initiatives; and veteran's health care. The Staff and Office Files contain: reports; memoranda; talking points; press releases; fact sheets; speeches and speech drafts; remarks by administration officials; newspaper clippings on Bush administration health care reform proposals; reaction to health care proposals; veterans health care; endorsements of various health care plans; Medicaid reform/cost containment; Medicare waiver applications which include the controversial Oregon proposal; materials from the Health Policy Working Group; materials from the Healthcare Equity Action League (HEAL); Clinton/Bush health care comparisons; House and Senate health care proposals; and news summaries of health care proposals. Johannes Kuttner's Staff and Office Files provide a very detailed examination of the development of the Bush health care plan and the development of criticisms to rival health care plans. In addition to these files are printouts of Kuttner backup diskettes that contain information about a variety of issues related to health care reform. The diskettes are listed according to disk number and directory followed by a brief description of the files in that particular directory. If no description follows the directory listing, the files were unreadable or they are of such a general nature, no brief description was possible. Read less