Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center Seeks Public Input on Health Care Reform

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

What: Your Voice, New Vision, a national grassroots initiative lead by the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center, will hold listening sessions in Rochester to gather patients' ideas of how to transform health care in the United States.

Through a nine-city tour, Your Voice, New Vision will record views from a cross-section of health care consumers. These consumers will have an opportunity to share their ideas by writing letters or recording their messages on video or audiotape. A compilation of these stories will be presented at the Mayo Clinic National Symposium on Health Care Reform, March 9–11, 2008, Leesburg, Va.

When/Where: Friday, Oct. 19 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Annenberg Plaza, Mayo Clinic

Saturday, Oct. 20 7:30 a.m. to noon Rochester Downtown Farmer's Market Fourth Street and Fourth Avenue South East

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