Dear ROBERT,

Over the past two weeks, thousands of people representing all 50 states and every corner of the country have hosted health care discussions in their homes and communities. Just this week, I attended a discussion hosted by the Fire Department in Dublin, Indiana, and one hosted by a Senior Wellness Center in Southeast Washington, D.C.

Leading your discussion was the first step. Equally important, we want to hear back from you. I learned so much from attending discussions this week, and we want to know about your discussions, too.

The President-elect has asked me to share your feedback from these discussions -- that's why your submission is so essential.

Please tell us how your discussion went by visiting http://change.gov/reportback. We need to hear from you as soon as possible-by Sunday,January 4th,2009 at the latest=so we can prepare our report for the President-elect.

Both President-elect Obama and I are committed to reforming the healthcare system from the grassroots up-and leaders likeyou are crucuial to that effort.

I'm looking forward to reading youur submissions about your Health Care Community discussions.

Thank you,

Tom


Tom Daschle
Seccretary-designate
Department of Health and Human Services

Tenalouise: I received this today from Daschle's office. I think our project team should draft a reply indicating we would be willing to offer patient originated data to a nationally developed database. Comments?? Bob C

Of couse I would volunteer to return any report before the Sunday deadline.

Bob C