Congress authorized the Citizen’s Health Care Working Group as a provision of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act Of 2003. This provision was sponsored by Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Orrin Hatch of Utah. The mission of the Working Group has been to provide a nationwide public debate about improving the American health care system so that health care “works for all Americans” and to use the results of that debate to provide recommendations for Congress and the President to consider as they work to achieve high quality, affordable health care. Working Group members were named February …
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Citizens' Health Care Working Group [website]
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Health Care that Works for All Americans
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Congress authorized the Citizen’s Health Care Working Group as a provision of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act Of 2003. This provision was sponsored by Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Orrin Hatch of Utah. The mission of the Working Group has been to provide a nationwide public debate about improving the American health care system so that health care “works for all Americans” and to use the results of that debate to provide recommendations for Congress and the President to consider as they work to achieve high quality, affordable health care. Working Group members were named February 28, 2005 and released various sets of recommendations.
Health Care That Works For All Americans: Interim Recommendations of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group - ark:/67531/metadc2285407
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Final report of the Citzens' Health Care Working Group documenting the findings, recommendations, and other information related to research into health care, including recommendations on health care reform, a dialogue with the American people on health care, and a health report to the American people.
Report by the Citizens' Health Care on their recommendations to the federal government regarding the topic of health care. These recommendations include the establishment of public policy that allows all Americans to have affordable health care, the guarantee of financial protection against high health care costs, the fostering of innovative integrated community health networks, the definition of core benefits and services for all Americans, the promotion of efforts to improve quality of care and efficiency, and the restructuring of the way end-of-life services are financed and provided.
Health Care That Works For All Americans: Recommendations of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group - ark:/67531/metadc2285408
Report from the Citizens' Health Care Working Group on the state of health care in the United States at the time of writing. The report summarizes numerous problems plaguing the industry, including sharply rising costs, quality shortcomings, access problems, and more. The report ends with an overview of what is being done to fix these issues.
Health Care That Works For All Americans: Health Report To The American People - ark:/67531/metadc2285406
Report by the Citizens' Health Care Working Group on the data they gleaned about the attitudes of general Americans on issues surrounding health care, acquired through meetings, surveys, and other methods of obtaining public opinion. Questions focused on include what health care benefits should be provided, how health care should be delivered, how health care coverage should be financed, and what trade-offs people are willing to make to ensure access to affordable, high-quality services. Seven appendixes analyze individual surveys and data points.
Health Care That Works For All Americans: Dialogue With The American People - ark:/67531/metadc2285403
Executive summary of a report by the Citizens' Health Care Working Group on data gleaned through public surveys and community meetings to determine public opinion on issues related to healthcare.
Citizens' Health Care Working Group.Citizens' Health Care Working Group [website],
website,
September 29, 2006;
Bethesda, MD.
(https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc26001/:
accessed July 20, 2026),
University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.