Donna Shalala: 'Leaving Footprints'at HHS

摘要

When Donna Shalala, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), visited Science 3 years ago in June 1993, she had been on the job only a few months, but she made a bold suggestion: "Forget what people are saying. Watch what we actually do and judgeus by where we end up." At that time, the Administration was just starting to write its health insurance reform proposal, Bemadine Healy was still director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Shalala was excited about the prospect for increased funding of preventive health care. Much has changed since then.