 As a part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, the US Congress created the Citizens' Health Care Working Group to provide a nationwide public debate about ways to improve the health care system, to provide any American with the ability to obtain quality affordable health care coverage and to submit to the President and the Congress recommendations that result from the debate. The Working Group is calling for input in two different ways: attendance and participation in community meetings such as the one in Los Angeles, CA, and a survey that can be found on their website. The following notice is from the Citizens' Health Care Working Group. *** SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING LOS ANGELES *** On March 4th, the Citizens’ Health Care Working Group will be holding a community meeting in Los Angeles, California. At this event, 1,000 individuals from the Los Angeles area will come together at the Los Angeles Convention Center to make their views and opinions on health care heard. REGISTER NOW Registration for this meeting is filling up quickly, so if you haven’t already encouraged your members and networks to attend this meeting, now is the time. Individuals can register for this meeting at their website. If you have contacts and offices in the Los Angels area that would like to encourage people to participate in this event, we have posted a flyer on our website for you to share with them. Meals, transportation, parking, childcare, and interpreters will be provided. Please let me know if you would like our LA meeting coordinators to contact any of your local offices regarding their involvement in this meeting. If they cannot attend a community meeting, individuals are encouraged to make their opinions heard by:
For information on all of our community meetings across the country and to register, visit Citizens' Health Care website. As always, if you have questions on this update, please contact Jessica Federer at 301-443-1521.
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