By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
Her nurse was showered with almost $28 million in gifts, including three Manhattan apartments, two homes elsewhere and a $1.2 million Stradivarius violin. Her doctors' families received more than $3 million in presents. A night nurse received a salary plus money to cover her children's school tuition and to help buy two apartments.
Clark was in better health by 1996, talking with her staff and involved in handling her affairs but still "shy and reticent, avoiding most people," though she exchanged letters with friends and relatives, Dr. Henry Singman wrote.
