... The working groups contained more than 1000 participants, not 511, as claimed by the Task Force. Nearly half of the members were private citizens.Large numbers worked for managed-care interests, most notably the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Both foundations have supported managed-care reform in several states. In addition, six members the White House passed off as Congressional staffers turned out to be Robert Wood Johnson fellows assigned to the staffs of four Democratic Senators; all were on the foundation's payroll.Dozens of other private interests were represented in the working groups—Aetna, Prudential, Kaiser-Permanente, health czar Ira Magaziner's former consulting company Telesis, to name a few. Conspicuously absent were physicians in private practice.The Task Force spent at least $4 million and possibly as much as $16 million on expenses, salaries, and consulting fees. In the charter it filed with the GSA in March 1993, the Task Force said expenses would total $100 000.
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