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.