Final Recommendations
Health Care That Works for All Americans
On September 29, 2006, The Citizens’ Health Care Working Group sent its Final Recommendations to Congress and the President.
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Transmittal Letter to President (PDF)
Dialogue With the American People (PDF)
(Dialogue document with Appendices) (PDF)
- Appendix A: Local Demographics and Health Resources - (PDF)
- Appendix B: Summary of Community Meeting Data - (PDF)
- Appendix C: Online Health Care Poll - (PDF)
- Appendix D: University Town Hall Survey - (PDF)
- Appendix E: Health Care Presentations - (PDF)
- Appendix F: National Health Care Polls and Survey Reports - (PDF)
- Appendix G: Response to Comments on the Interim Recommendations - (PDF)
Health Report to the American People, updated Sept. 2006. (PDF)
Working Group members and staff (PDF)
Entire report; if you wish to view the entire document in a single file, this PDF document is formatted for 2-sided printing. This file is large (2.5 MB) and contains all documents listed above.
Summary; we have prepared a shorter document for easier distribution by adding information on our community meetings to the executive summary in a PDF document.
These Recommendations describe a vision and plan for achieving broad-based change in health care in America, based on input from:
- Participants in community meetings;
- Respondents to our online polls;
- Comments we received on our Interim Recommendations;
- Citizens who wrote in to tell us their views; and
- Presenters at public hearings.
Read comments made on the Interim Recommendations:
- From individuals; and
- By Groups/organizations; or
View a 1-minute video used to promote public comments on the Interim Recommendations.
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