Presidential Initiative on Health Reform

President Valerie Brown is making advocacy for national health reform a hallmark of her leadership of the National Association of Counties.  Supervisor Brown is working with the Obama Administration and  Congress to ensure that counties' interests in expanding health access, reducing costs and improving the health of individuals and communities are included in federal health reform legislation.  Under her leadership, NACo will also stand ready to assist counties in implementing health reform when it is enacted.

As president-elect in 2008-2009, Brown chaired three regional NACo Hearings on U.S. Health Reform in Maricopa County, Ariz., Wake County, N.C., and Sacramento County, Calif.  The purpose of the hearings was to engage county officials in refining NACo's national health policy agenda, learn about innovative county health care programs, and bring media and public attention to the county role in health care delivery.