Hearings and Meetings
View topical list of presentations made to the Citizens' Health Care Working Group.
View list of presentations organized by date/location.
| September 21-23, 2005 | Portland, Oregon |
| August 16-18, 2005 | Boston, Massachusetts |
| July 26, 2005 | Houston, Texas |
| July 20-23, 2005 | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| June 7-8, 2005 | Jackson, Mississippi |
| May 11-13, 2005 | Arlington, Virginia |
| April 11-12, 2005 | Rockville, Maryland |
Hearing Documents
Federal Register Notices
Meeting Agendas
Summaries/Minutes
Transcripts
Other Documents
Overview
The U.S. Congress directed the Citizens' Health Care Working Group to hold hearings to examine a list of subjects related to health care in America. The subjects identified by Congress and examined in Working Group hearings are:
- Capacity of the public and private health care systems to expand coverage options.
- Cost of health care and the effectiveness of care provided at all stages of disease.
- Innovative State strategies used to expand health care coverage and lower health care costs.
- Local community solutions to accessing health care coverage.
- Efforts to enroll individuals currently eligible for public or private health care coverage.
- Role of evidence-based medical practices that can be documented as restoring, maintaining, or improving a patient's health.
- Use of technology in supporting providers in improving quality of care and lowering costs.
- Strategies to assist purchasers of health care, including consumers, to become more aware of the impact of costs and to lower the costs of health care.
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