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Article: Turning Policy Failure Into Personal Success; Clinton's Health Care Task Force Stumbled, But Its Members Didn't
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- The Washington Post
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- June 18, 1995
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If you were wondering whatever became of the members of the
Clinton administration's ill-fated Health Care Task Force, the recent
rise of Bernard S. Arons provides some clues.
At the beginning of 1993, Arons was a psychiatrist three layers
down at the National Institute of Mental Health, earning a GS-15
salary of $91,029. After serving as an informal adviser to Tipper
Gore on mental health issues, he was asked to head up a cluster on
the Health Care Task Force.
The task force stumbled, but Arons didn't. After eight months with
the group, a period when Clinton's health care plan was battered in
polls and spurned by Congress, Arons landed one of the most
prestigious jobs in psychiatry. He was ...