Subject: Re: Substance Abuse Forum remarks
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>
Cc: Sara Solow <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>, Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>, Harrell Kirstein <[email-masked]>, Mike Vlacich <[email-masked]>, Jesse Ferguson <[email-masked]>, Corey Ciorciari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:57:23 -0700
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

COREY - Pls work on this ASAP with NH to pull together the stories for HRC
that she has heard.  Thanks.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> sent this email earlier but now realize i only replied to jake, not entire
> team. and predictably hrc is asking for this
> do we have a one pager on some of the stories people shared? the
>  grandmother in rochester, the other grandmother before that
> she needs specific stories?
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Sara Solow <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> + Jake
>>
>> I made some edits.  Dan / Jake (I'd imagine Ann is asleep), could you
>> please revise?  I am sorry for the last minute; I was asleep when it came
>> through last night.
>>
>> My edits changed to goals language to dial back sounding like proactive
>> federal policy -- because we havent settled on the design choice yet, for
>> how to realize these goals.  I also moved the insurance paragraph up,
>> because our current plan would not monkey with insurance rules at the
>> federal level in a major way, so i didn't want it to sound like we were
>> proposing an ACA/insurance change... (at least not yet!)
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Sara Solow <[email-masked]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> For the pharmacist paragraph-- it has to be changed to say "so my goal
>>> would be that every xxx who writes a prescription gets training ... And
>>> should have to consult..."
>>>
>>> I don't think she can require these guys to consult those programs.
>>> These are state run programs (the pdmps) and to impose that look up
>>> requirement would raise federalism problems. And for the training piece,
>>>  both the Feds license docs to write prescriptions thru the DEA and the
>>> states do as well,  but we haven't decided on whether she's going to change
>>> the federal policy or just incentive the states to.  So this bullet should
>>> be changed in the language of a goal or aspiration rather than affirmative
>>> policy that she would do or require.  We were leaning towards implementing
>>> this -- and actually all 4 goals -- through competitive grants to states
>>> and a race to the top idea (as of yesterday evening!).
>>>
>>> I'm a bit nervous that the things we gave her as the four goals now
>>> sound like affirmative federal policy -- and so this could make news, even
>>> though the plan isn't out til next week or decided on yet.  Ann, are you ok
>>> with that?  I thought we didn't want to make news...
>>>
>>> Sorry; this whole thing shifted a bit later yesterday so just want to
>>> make sure we are ok with where this is headed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 11, 2015, at 1:18 AM, Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is good.  Thanks, Dan!
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Dan Schwerin <
>>> [email-masked]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks all, that was very helpful feedback. Revised is attached.
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Sara Solow <[email-masked]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dan - can you send around the final version when you get a chance?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Ann O'Leary <
>>>>> [email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan - This will need your fine word smithing, but I tried to put in
>>>>>> the 4 points that we want to make as policy recommendations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +Sara Solow
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Dan Schwerin <
>>>>>> [email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> HRC is doing a forum on substance abuse tomorrow in NH.  Here are
>>>>>>> some bullets for her topper.
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Ann O'Leary
>>>>>> Senior Policy Advisor
>>>>>> Hillary for America
>>>>>> Cell: 510-717-5518
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ann O'Leary
>>> Senior Policy Advisor
>>> Hillary for America
>>> Cell: 510-717-5518
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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Ann O'Leary
Senior Policy Advisor
Hillary for America
Cell: 510-717-5518