PLENARY SESSIONS

Health Care as a Civil Rights Issue—If Not Now, When?

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care: Why the Gaps? by Brian Smedley, Ph.D., The Opportunity Agenda
• The Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act of 2003 (H.R. 3459/S. 1833)
• The Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act and the Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004 (Congressional Research Service)
• Dare To Get Involved Action Checklist (Families USA)

WORKSHOPS

Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries and the Part D Benefit: If You Build It, Will They Come?

• Filling the Holes in Part D: SPAPs to the Rescue? (Families USA)
• Medicare Part B Matters (Center for Medicare Advocacy)
• Dazed and Confused: Navigating the Abyss of the Medicare Act of 2003 for Low-Income Beneficiaries (Center for Medicare Advocacy)
• The Medicare Low Income Drug Subsidy: Strategies to Maximize Participation (Medicare Rights Center)

Immigrant Health Successes and Challenges: Ask the Experts

• Beneficios Públicos para Immigrantes (Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center)
• Public Benefits for Immigrants: Benefits and Consequences (Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center)
• Public Charge (Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center)
• Carga Pública (Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center)
• Prenatal Coverage for Immigrants through the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) (National Immigration Law Center)
• Immigration Status and Public Benefits (Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center)
• An Initiative Measure
• Women Immigrants Safe Harbor Act (WISH): Section-by-Section Analysis (National Immigration Law Center)
• Women Immigrants Safe Harbor Act (WISH) (National Immigration Law Center)
• "Unborn Child" to "Targeted Low-income Child": Changing the Definition of Child in SCHIP: How it impacts women's health and the right to choose (Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition)
• Qualified and Non-qualified Immigrants Benefits Eligibility Chart (Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center)
• Immigrants' Access to Health Care: Emerging Trends and Issues (Gabrielle Lessard, National Immigration Law Center)
• Proposed Implementation Approach: Federal Funding of Emergency Health Services Furnished to Undocumented Aliens: Federal Fiscal Years 2005 Through 2008 (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)

Building Momentum for Universal Coverage

• Health Care Justice Campaign (Campaign for Better Health Care)

When Good Waivers Go Bad: What Can State Advocates Do?

• Florida Medicaid Modernization Proposal (Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida)
• Preliminary Analysis of New Hampshire's GraniteCare Proposal (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute)
• The TennCare Waiver: A Bad Deal for Seniors (Families USA)
• The TennCare Waiver and African Americans: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric (Families USA)
• The TennCare Waiver: More (Radical) Than Meets the Eye (NHeLP)
• New Hampshire Concept Paper memo (Families USA)
• TennCare's Radical Changes Threaten Women's Health (National Women's Law Center)
• Financing Under Federal Medicaid Section 1115 Waivers: Federal Policies and Implications for New Hampshire (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute)
• Financing Under Federal Medicaid Section 1115 Waivers: Federal Policies and Implications for New Hampshire, Executive Summary (Georgetown Health Policy Institute)
• New Hampshire's GraniteCare Recommendations to Modernize Medicaid (New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services)

Language Access and Cultural Competency: Can We Close the Gap?

• Goals for DPW's LEP External Committee
• Requirements for New HealthChoices Contracts
• Assessing Language Interpretation Capacity Among New Hampshire Health Care Providers (The Access Project)
• Bibliography to "Assessing Language Interpretation Capacity Among New Hampshire Health Care Providers" (The Access Project)
• Statement of Finding- Pennsylvania County Assistance Offices Full Scope Review Issue: Access to the TANF Program for Persons Who Are LEP (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights)

Formularies: Navigating Mazes to Get the Drugs You Need

• Medicare Part D: Cost Management Issues (Jack Hoadley, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute)

Expanding Employer-Based Coverage: Lessons from California's Prop 72

• Proposition 72 Wrap-Up Executive Memo (David Binder Research)
• Election Wrap-Up: Proposition 72 (Health Access)
• Yes on Prop 72 Press Kit (Save Your Health Care)
• The Future of Employer-Based Coverage in California (Health Access)
• Ideas that Work Toolkit (Families USA)

Health Care Is a Progressive Moral Value

• Health Care as a Moral Value (UHCAN)
• Educational Resources for Seeking Justice in Health Care (UHCAN)
• Affordable Health Care For All - bulletin insert (UHCAN)
• Health Care Justice Campaign (Campaign for Better Health Care)
• Engaging Faith Communities in Working for Health Care Justice (UHCAN)
• Affordable Health Care for All: Moving beyond political deadlock- video script (UHCAN)

Drug Spending: What Can States Do with Less Bargaining Leverage?

• West Virginia Pharmaceutical Cost Management Council presentation
• Stretching State Health Dollars in Difficult Economic Times: Pharmaceutical Purchasing Strategies (Tanya Alteras, Economic and Social Research Institute)

Dare to Get Involved: Taking Action to Improve Minority Health

• Dare To Get Involved Action Checklist (Families USA)
• Community Based Strategies for Improving Latino Health (Mildred Thompson, PolicyLink)

Creating and Implementing a Fund-Raising Plan

• The Culture of Money (A Fundraising Training with Your Board)
• The Proposal Gauntlet
• People the Waltham Land Trust Should Get to Know
• Gift Triangle for $1 Million
• Budgeting Drawing
• Qualities of a Person Who Is a Good Solicitor
• Panel Information for "Creating and Implementing a Fundraising Plan": Families USA Health Action 2005

Improving Your Web Site

• How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of a Nonprofit Website? by Andrew Urban, Your Mission
• CMS on a Shoestring: Shopping for Content Management Systems by Andrew Cohen, Beaconfire Consulting

Leveraging the Power of Online Political Citizens in Health Care Advocacy

• Online Influentials Presentationby Carol Darr, Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet
• Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, a report from the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet
• Putting Online Influentials to Work for Your Campaign, a report from the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet
• DittoPapers: Best Practices for Online Communications by EchoDitto, Inc.

Dual Eligibles: Double Trouble in 2006?

• MMA Definitions by Richard Stefanacci, Health Policy Institute
• MMA Resources by Richard Stefanacci, Health Policy Institute
• The Transition of Dual Eligibles to Medicare Drug Coverage: Implications for Beneficiaries and States by Jocelyn Guyer, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
• MMA: Medicare Modernization Act by Richard Stefanacci, Health Policy Institute

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