But he also expressed disapproval of thelinkage of health benefits to salary.
"By violating the principle that all Harvardemployees get the same health benefits packages weleave ourselves open to many counterproductiveforces," he said. "To say that we need asalary-linked benefit policy on the grounds ofequity is to ignore the great disparities in meansand circumstances that exist within salarygroups."
Green briefly criticized what he calls the lackof attention paid to short-term disabilitycoverage, saying in the memo that the task forcewas given numerous examples of "abuses andinequities" that have occured under the currentsystem.
He specified two of his own proposals--healthcoverage based on family composition and primarycare outside of Cambridge in a Harvard basedplan--which he described as only some of his moreimportant suggestions.
"I proposed and advocated a number of creativeideas, none of which has found its way into thepackage you offer," Green said in the document.
Green wrote that he advocated the creation of aseparate category for a single adult with a childor children, which he said would cost noticeablyless than the proposed family benefit plan for twoadults with any or no children.
"Creating a single parent familycate-gory...would create the incentive for twoearner couples...to enroll the spouse in his orher employer's plan," according to Green.
A copy of the memo was sent to the Law Schoolfaculty this Monday by Fessenden Professor of LawBernard Wolfman.
Wolfman also sent out a copy of a memo he wrotein late July to the Law School's advisorycommittee on faculty benefits changes in whichWolfman says that Green also criticized a decisionto eliminate retirement plan contributions by theUniversity on salaries in excess of $150,000.
Wolfman did not return a call to his officeyesterday.
"In our conversation, Jerry expressed hisnegative appraisal of the move on its merits, andhe was equally critical of the University's lackof candor in its decision to ignore it in thebrochure," Wolfman wrote in his memo. "He told mesomething of the discussion of the move that tookplace at a meeting in which the Deans participatedand in which he voiced his opposition."
Corvey said yesterday that that particularchange was part of the plan, and said that itwould be part of the upcoming final report on thematter.
"The final report of the task force will bereleased in September," she said. "It will providethe reasons behind why [certain changes wereadvocated].