[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 144 (Thursday, October 6, 1994)]
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                    TRIBUTE TO DR. ALAIN C. ENTHOVEN

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 6, 1994

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute Dr. Alain C. Enthoven, 
a brilliant economist from Stanford University in California's 14th 
Congressional District who is being presented with the first Clifton J. 
Latiolais Honor Medal by the American Managed Care Pharmacy 
Association.
  Dr. Enthoven has made outstanding contributions to the way our 
country thinks about health-care delivery, and truly deserves this 
prestigious award. Not only is he the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of 
Public and Private Management at Stanford's Graduate School of 
Business, but he is also a founding member of the Jackson Hole Group. 
In fact, his 1989 proposal in the ``New England Journal of Medicine'' 
for a combination of employer- and government-provided health insurance 
later became the basis for the Jackson Hole Group's managed competition 
plan, which led to several of the managed health-care proposals 
introduced in Congress this year. No wonder Dr. Enthoven has been 
called the ``father of health-care reform'' and the ``undisputed 
godfather of managed competition.''
  Earlier in his career, Dr. Enthoven received the coveted President's 
Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from President John F. 
Kennedy. While serving as a consultant to the Department of Health and 
Human Resources under Secretary Joseph Califano in 1977, he designed 
and proposed the Consumer Choice Health Plan to provide universal 
health insurance based on managed competition in the private sector.
  Mr. Speaker, Dr. Enthoven was working on creative solutions to this 
Nation's health-care crisis long before most Americans were aware we 
had one. I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring him for his 
remarkable insights and tremendous contributions to our society as he 
receives the Latiolais Honor Medal.

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