Sacramento County Hosts NACo Hearing on U.S. Health Care System Reform
By Paul McIntosh, Executive Director
pmcintosh@counties.org
The National Association of Counties’ (NACo) Large Urban County Caucus (LUCC) Annual Meeting was held on April 15 -17 in Sacramento County. The purpose of the gathering was to build upon innovative solutions to common challenges facing metropolitan areas and to consider strategies to achieve comprehensive national health care system reform.
In tandem with the LUCC’s meeting, NACo also sponsored a regional field hearing in Sacramento to elicit input on counties’ current efforts to provide quality health services to ensure that county governments’ voice in the national debate on health system reform is heard.
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