Courts DC2000 DC Agenda Fire Department FOI Officers Legislation Mayor's Office Neighborhood Action NCRC Police Department Public Advocate Public Schools Public Service Commission Tax Rev Comm Telephone Directory Regional Mobility Issues in DC Politics Links News and Opinion Organizations Appleseed Center Cardozo Shaw Neigh. The purpose of this meeting is to consider actions regarding the provision of health care services for indigent residents of the District of Columbia, the future role of the Public Benefit Corporation in the provision of those services and the recent supplemental appropriations bill enacted by the District of Columbia City Council. We are acting to improve access to healthcare services for the District's citizens in need and to enhance service to the population currently using D.C. General Hospital and the PBC clinics. At this critical juncture, we reaffirm the Authority's deep commitment to improving health care services for the District's most vulnerable residents.
Nothing is more important.
The Mayor, the Council and the Authority share the goal of improving health care services for the population using DC General and its clinics. To that end we have worked together over many months in an attempt to craft a common solution to the City's health care crisis. Unfortunately, this extensive work has not yielded the cooperative solution we all wanted. Last Friday, the Council voted against the proposed contract, negotiated by the Authority and forwarded to the Council by the Mayor. There were no viable competing proposals.