Citizens’ Health Care Working Group: Final Recommendations 9-25-06

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Citizens’ Health Care Working Group: Final Recommendations 9-25-06

Citizens’ Health Care Working Group: Final Recommendations, September 25, 2006. After input from more than 14,000 engaged citizens, the national working group delivered its recommendations to the President. Six recommendations called for immediate action and public policy that all Americans have affordable health care; that quality and efficiency be improved, and end-of-life-care be reformed. In recommending that core health care benefits and services be defined, it shares data that the people think consumers and medical professionals should define these benefits, rather than insurance companies. The group calls for affordable access to health care to be achieved by 2012. Summary and Appendix C (poll results) should be required reading for Congress and White House staff. Unfortunately the survey left out the question of how to encourage personal responsibility for exercising, eating right, and other healthy behaviors. Still, Editor’s Pick. It’s a classic.