The American Public on Health Care-The Missing Perspective - (Page 3)

Council for Excellence in Government Founded in 1983, The Council for Excellence in Government (www. excelgov.org) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to improve government performance and citizen participation. The Council’s successful initiatives to examine homeland security and American jobs from the public perspective have set the standard for authentic public town hall meetings. Acknowledgements We would like to express sincere gratitude to Ken Dineen, Greg Parston, Susan Nealon, Cindy Hielscher, Sharon Spigelmyer, Peter Soh, and the rest of the staff at Accenture for their thought, leadership, and support of this initiative. The Council for Excellence in Government is extremely grateful to Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine, as well as the IOM staff including Christine Stencel and Lauren Tobias, and the many members of the IOM who helped to guide this project. In addition, we would like to thank Darby Miller-Steiger and Helen Musara from Gallup for their ideas and stewardship of the survey research. Frank Sesno continued to contribute his unique talents to the Council’s town hall practice, expertly serving as a tour guide through the many complex and contentious issues surrounding the topic. The Council staff who organized and orchestrated this effort deserve huge thanks: David Roberts, Samantha Donaldson, Bryan Klopack, and Diane Freeman. In addition, Matthew Kohut and Samantha Dodge from InFact Communications, Greg Gersch from EyeBeam Creative, Vince Aurilio from Creative Media Communications, and Lisa Riolo and her team at closerlook all contributed their creative talents to this project and report. We would also like to thank the community media partners in Miami, Detroit, and San Francisco who helped us reach and engage people throughout their metropolitan areas in the town hall discussions. Special thanks to the hosts and panelists in our town hall meetings. A full list is available in the Town Hall Spotlights. Finally, and most important, we are grateful to the hundreds of people in the Miami, Detroit, and San Francisco metropolitan areas who took time out of their busy schedules to come to the town hall discussions and share their personal stories, their suggestions, and their questions for the new President and other leaders in the vast American health care enterprise. Accenture Institute for Public Service Value The Accenture Institute for Public Service Value (http://www.accenture. com/Global/Research_and_Insights/ Institute_For_Public_Service_Value/ default.htm) is a research and development center that helps public service organizations create value and improve social outcomes for their citizens by advancing high performance in public service delivery, policy, and governance. The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (www.iom.edu) serves as adviser to the nation to improve health and provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policy makers, health professionals, the private sector, and the public. The mission of the Institute of Medicine embraces the health of people everywhere. Patricia McGinnis President and CEO The Council for Excellence in Government 3 http://www.excelgov.org http://www.accenture http://www.iom.edu

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