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Article: Vice President Releases HHS Report Documenting Health Care Problems
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- U.S. Newswire
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- June 17, 1998
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WASHINGTON, June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Vice President Gore today
released a new Department of Health and Human Services report
documenting the quality problems in the health care system, and he
announced the formation of a planning committee to create a historic
national Quality Forum designed to identify a core set of quality
measures that America's health plans would adopt.
"I am pleased to announce that private businesses, health
consumer
groups, professional organizations, labor unions, and employers are
coming together to plan America's very first health care Quality
Forum," Vice President Gore said. "The Quality Forum will, for the
first time, ensure that consumers have a consistent ...