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It's Up To You

What's next in the national discussion about our health care? This is your chance to be part of an important debate. Use the resources of this web site to learn about our health care system.

What happens next, depends on you.

Conducting a Community Meeting

Thank you for your participation in this national effort to engage individuals across the country in finding solutions that will lead to health care that works for all Americans. The following materials are available for you to download.

Please note: having completed the tasks set by Congress, we are unable to accept further input. These resources are included for your information and understanding of the Working Group's information gathering process.

For completed meeting results, see our Results page.

Get information on self-initiated community meetings organized by independent groups or with the help of individual Working Group members.

1. Advanced Preparation:

Read the following materials on health care in the United States:

• The Health Report to the American People
• Invitation to the American People
• Information - Participation - Action (This PowerPoint slide show contains note pages providing additional information and/or talking points.*)

2. Meeting Outreach:

Resources to encourage communities to participate in meetings:

• Template Flyer (MS Word format)
• Template Evite (HTML file) (View Evites for scheduled meetings)
• Template Press Release (MS Word format)
• Sample Press Release (MS Word format)

3. Advanced Preparation for Moderator/Host:

• Moderator/Host Guide used to prepare for and facilitate meetings.
  [Note: although this file is less than 1 MB, it may load slowly as it is graphic-intensive.]
• Meeting participants were encouraged to review some or all of the “Advanced Preparation” materials listed above before coming to the meeting.
• Organizers were encouraged, where possible, to send attendees the discussion guide in advance of the meeting.

4. Conducting the Meeting:

Introduction

• Use the 7 minute video OR
• Slide Show OR
• 1 minute video with the Slide Show.

Discussion

• Discussion Guide
  Discussion Guide - Spanish (1.9 MB)
  Discussion Guide - Chinese (2.4 MB)
  Discussion Guide - Korean (2.4 MB)
  
• Moderator/Host Guide (PDF only).

Feedback

• Meeting Report Form - 1 per meeting (MS Word ver.)
• Health Care Poll - 1 per participant, to be completed on paper. (PDF only)
  Spanish-language version of PDF file
  
  

Note: Videos are posted on this site in WMV format* and are viewable using Windows Media Player. The 7-min. video file is 12.9 MB in size, and the 1-min. video file is 1.5 MB.

* To view documents posted on this web site as PDF files or in other formats, please read our Format help page.