Puget Sound Health Alliance -
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Published on: 9/6/2005
Last Visited: 9/3/2008
Margaret Stanley, the alliance's executive director, and prominent consultant Lance Heineccius, whom Stanley picked as program director, each bring nearly 30 years of experience in health-care policy in both the public and private sectors.
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As a consultant, Heineccius has authored several studies, including two that were widely distributed -- "A Study of State Purchased Health Services," for the state in 1991, and "Health Care Delivery System and Financing Options," in 2000.
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Stanley, in turn, this month hired Heineccius, who had just completed an 18-month project for Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers.
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Stanley and Heineccius "are two of the strongest health-care thinkers in the state," said Revelle, who was King County executive in the early 1980s.
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Tom Curry, chief executive of the Washington State Medical Association, had this to say about Stanley and Heineccius: "They add a degree of gravitas that the alliance did not have."
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In the minds of some, Curry said, Stanley and Heineccius are associated with the state's controversial experiment with health-care reform a dozen years ago.
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The law created the Washington State Health Services Commission, for which Heineccius served as director of policy and research between 1993 and 1995.The agency was charged with implementing the law's reforms.It disappeared when the law was repealed.
In contrast with sweeping reforms imposed by liberal lawmakers, the Puget Sound Health Alliance aims collaboratively to improve the existing health-care system.
Stanley and Heineccius indicated they agree with this strategy.
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Heineccius, too, finds collaboration appealing.