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The Citizens' Health Care Working Group (CHCWG) was charged with listening to the opinions of the general public about how the government can make health care work better for all Americans. For over 15 months, the working group travelled the country, holding public meetings, and then devised a roadmap for change based on this commentary. Their recommendations were submit to Congress and the President in Fall 2006. By creating the working group through Section 1014 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, Congress bound itself to take action on the final results, meaning the President must comment and Congress must hold hearings on these recommendations. The Working Group invited individuals across the country to provide feedback on the following four questions: # What health care services do you want? # How do you want those services provided? # How do you want those services financed? # What trade-offs are you willing to make? People participated by attending community meeting, answering an online Health Care Poll, holding their own community meetings and sending in the results and participating in online blogs and discussion boards. == Community Meetings == The Citizens Health Care Working Group had over 35 Community Meetings from January-June 2006. These highly interactive meetings typically ran 4 hours, and were hosted by either the Public Forum Institute or AmericaSpeaks. Seated around tables of ten, individuals participated in small table discussions and voted on electronic keypads. They also participated in discussions involving the entire group, ranging in size from 100-300 people. The Working Group also encouraged groups to hold their own Community Meeting by downloading the Community Meeting kit located on their website. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Citizens' Health Care Working Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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