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Part II: Healing the System| ***FREE Archive is now available***
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This program looks at quality improvement, safety and effectiveness strategies to contain costs. Vermont and Pennsylvania have both placed system reform at the heart of access reform. Vermont has focused on providing more rational and effective care to people with chronic conditions—the group most likely to use health care. Pennsylvania’s Rendell has focused in on making care more affordable by improving hospital safety and quality, an area where the state leads, as well as expanding the use of nurse practitioners. How are these and other state incorporating a changed approach to delivering care into their reform efforts?
Speakers:
Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP, [Bio] 
[Presentation]
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Representative Steven B. Maier, VT [Bio] [Presentation]
Co Chair, VT Legislative Commission on Health Care Reform
with
Jim Hester, Director [Bio]
Vermont Legislative Commission on Health Care Reform
Susan L. Anderson, PA [Bio] [Presentation]
Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor
Deputy Director of the Office of Health Care Reform
Other Resources
Other State Access Initiatives with Health System Elements and Other Useful Links
NCSL Links
Vermont - Catamount Health
State Legislation Relating to Disclosure of Hospital and Health Charges
Chronic Care
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/diseasemgmt.htm
Medicaid Waivers
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/1115waivers.htm
Health Care Costs
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/finance.htm
Access to Health Care - Part III: Making plans affordable
Access to Health Care - Part III: Making plans affordable
NCSL and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) are pleased to host the third installment in A three part series on state legislators and governors plans to expand health care access
Wednesday, March 21
12 P.M. EST (11 A.M. CST, 10 A.M. MST, 9 A.M. PST)
Free archive for this webcast is available here. This webcast was produced by WebEx.
***FREE Archive is now available***
Connector and other pooling and reinsurance arrangements. Mandates and expanded offers only work if people can afford them What are states doing to make care affordable and what is working? We will look at subsidies and multi-sharing plans, risk pools and reinsurance as well as experiments with low-benefit and limited plans that get new groups into insurance.
Speakers:
Scott Leitz (MN) [Bio]
Assistant Commissioner Minnesota Department of Health
Elaine Hayes (NY) [Bio]
New York State Insurance Department, Healthy NY Program
Insure Montana: A Health Insurance Program for Small Businesses
Lisa Crowley (MT) [Bio]
Insure Montana: A Health Insurance Program for Small Businesses
Health Webcasts
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