The spirit of transparency is shining through in the Obama administration. Recently, he tapped his pick for HHS Dept. head, a healthcare administrator known for considering the influence of the public in creating healthcare policy resulting in their protections as patients and consumers. In that spirit of consumer protectionism, HHS has launched a website whose mission is to keep the public informed of policy changes in healthcare, giving the public a window into the future of the system and a hand in creating it.

The impetus behind this website came courtesy of a quite comprehensive report which collected all of the input Obama recieved from roundtable discussions nationwide on the broken nature of the healthcare delivery system.

At the request of then President-elect Obama to host such discussions, more than 9,000 people enlisted to take part in every state, along with the District of Columbia. Even more attended than expected, after which participants completed surveys to submit to the Presidential Transition Team’s website at the time. Those 30,603 surveys came from 3,276 discussions, which were then analyzed and summarized by the HHS for the report. All of this appears to be a culmination of the Obama administration’s desire to make every U.S. citizen a stakeholder in his or her healthcare quality.

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