Workshop participants pointed out that there should be continued efforts to design a comprehensive benefits package for women and children in the context of universal health insurance. The discussion of health care benefits for women and children emphasized the need for more attention to family planning services, mental health and substance abuse care, health education and counselling, and services for children with special health care needs such as care coordination, long-term care or home-and community-based therapeutic services. Several approaches to benefit design were examined by workshop participants, including benefit packages from several pending congressional health care reform proposals.