Health Action 2007: Conference Materials

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Plenaries

• Opening Plenary: Visions and Values
• Senator Barack Obama (IL)
• Dr. Uwe Reinhardt (Princeton University)
•  Plenary: Health Care Heroes Award 
• Senator Gordon Smith (OR)
• Special Plenary
• Senator Sherrod Brown (OH)
• Plenary: Healthy Children - It’s up to Us
• Senator Edward Kennedy (MA)
• David Smith (GMMB)
• Plenary: Red Flags and Red Herrings: The Outlook for Medicare
• Tricia Neuman (Medicare Policy Project, Kaiser Family Foundation)
• PowerPoint Presentation: Part 1
• PowerPoint Presentation: Part 2
• Bruce Vladeck (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
• Special Plenary: It’s a Small World - The Global Health Connection
• Dr. Peter Hotez (George Washington University)
• PowerPoint Presentation 
• Plenary: Hurting Real People - The Tenncare Example
• Julie Winokur (Talking Eyes Media)
• Order Collateral Damage: Bad Medicine in Tennessee
• Discussion Guide to accompany Collateral Damage
• Plenary: The Right Stuff- Words that Work for Health Care
• Celinda Lake (Lake Research Partners)
• PowerPoint Presentation
• David Mermin (Lake Research Partners)
• Closing Plenary: Love Thy Neighbor - Work for Change
• Reverend Dr. Bob Edgar (National Council of Churches)
• Franciscan Benediction

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Workshop Session I

• Seeking Solutions: State Efforts to Reduce Health Disparities
• Colorado's Efforts to Reduce Health Disparities by Cerise Hunt, PowerPoint Presentation (Office of Health Disparites: Colorado  Department of Public Health and Environment)
• 2006 Health Disparities Package by Craig McLaughlin, PowerPoint Presentation (Washington State Board of Health)
• Policy and Advocacy Efforts to Eliminate Disparities in Massachusetts by Camille Watson, PowerPoint Presentation (Health Care for All)
• Medicare Part D: Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going?
• Medicare Part D: Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going? by Juliette Cubanski, PowerPoint Presentation (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Part D Price Negotiation: Why We Need It  by Marc Steinberg, PowerPoint Presentation (Families USA)
• SCHIP Reauthorization: A View from the Hill 
 
• The Brave New World of State Medicaid Reform
• The Illusion of Choice: Vulnerable Medicaid Beneficiaries Being Placed in Scaled Back “Benchmark” Benefit Packages (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• West Virginia’s Medicaid Changes Unlikely to Reduce States Costs or Improve Beneficiaries’ Health (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• A Pound of Flesh: Surviving Medical Debt
• Paying for Health Care: Separating Myth from Reality (by Christine Ryan, Managed Care Patient Assistance Program)
• New Report Links High Credit Card Debt to Medical Expenses (Demos and The Access Project)
• Managing Your Medical Debt: Know Your Rights (Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia)
• Crafting Messages that Resonate
• Messaging Child Health Care Issues by Phil Sparks, PowerPoint Presentation (Communications Consortium Media Center)
• New Laws Expanding Health Coverage: VT and MA
• Implementing Massachusetts Health Reform by Brian Rosman, PowerPoint Presentation (Health Care for All)
• What is Catamount by Hunt Blair, PowerPoint Presentation (Bi-State Primary Care Association, VT & NH)
• Massachusetts Expansion: 2008 (Families USA)
• Vermont's Health Reform Laws (Families USA)
• Web 2.0: How It Could Totally Change Your Life (Or at Least Help Your Advocacy)
• Web 2.0 (Wikipedia)

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Workshop Session II

• The Next Level: Advancing the Health Disparities Agenda
• New Year's Revolution No.1: Fix Broken Health Care System (SEIU)
• The Opportunity Agenda: Health Care that Works (The Opportunity Agenda)
• New Leadership, New Opportunities: What the Change in Congress Means for Health
  Care Legislation
• Medicare Part D: Low-Income Issues
• Medicare Part D Materials for Advocates: Advocates Guide to Solving Problems Under Part D (National Senior Citizens Law Center)
• Part D Materials for Advocates: Helpful Links (National Senior Citizens Law Center)
• Low-Income Advocate Alert on Medicare Part D (National Senior Citizens Law Center)
• Praying for Help: How to Partner with the Faith Community
• Working with the Faith Community: Reflections from a National Faith Leader (Families USA, Minority Health Initiatives)
• Case Study: The Faith Community- Religious Leaders Advocating for the Uninsured (Families USA, Minority Health Initiatives)
• Case Study: The Faith Community- Joining Together to Oppose Medicaid Cuts in Tennessee (Families USA, Minority Health Initiatives)
• Election Year Activities and the Prohibition on Political Campaign Intervention for Section 501(c)(3) Organizations (Families USA)
• Private Insurance: What State Advocates Need to Know
• Private Insurance: What State Advocates Need to Know by Cheryl Fish-Parcham, PowerPoint Presentation (Families USA)
• Finding Your Way thorough the Maze of the Citizenship Documentation Requirement
• Citizenship Documentation: Best Practices in the States by Ella Hushagen, PowerPoint Presentation (Families USA)
• Citizenship Documentation by John Bouman, PowerPoint Presentation (Shriver Center)
• Medicaid Citizenship Documentation: State-Level Advocates Can Help Monitor Impact, Help Minimize Barriers, and Make the Case for Reform by Anne Dunkelberg, PowerPoint Presentation (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
• Citizenship and Identity Information (Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare)
• Statement of Identity for Children Under 16 Years of Age (State of Wisconsin- Department of Health and Family Services)
• How to Get Your Message Across in Radio 
 
• Consumers and Quality: What’s the Connection?
• Health Care for All's Consumer Health Quality Initiative by Deborah Wachenheim, PowerPoint Presentation (Health Care for All)

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Workshop Session III

• The Blogging of Health Care: An Overview of the Progressive Health Care Blogosphere
• The Blogging of Health Care by Kaya Wilson, PowerPoint Presentation (Issue Dynamics, Inc.)
• Beyond Fact Sheets: Using Humor to Spread a Policy Message
• Funny Beats White Papers and Policy Briefs by Rob Schneider, PowerPoint Presentation (Consumers Union)
• Speak Softly and Carry a Big Shtick by John Hlinko, PowerPoint Presentation (Grassroots Enterprise)
• The Camel Is in the Tent: Health Savings Accounts Come to Medicaid
• Health Savings Accounts: Basics for 2007 (Families USA)
• Six Reasons to Be Wary of High-Deductible HSA Plans (Families USA)
• How HSAs Can Drain Your Wallet and Harm Your Health (Families USA)
• HSAs: Missing the Target (Families USA)
• January 10, 2007 CMS letter to State Medicaid Director regarding HOAs in Medicaid (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
• Section 3.1-H Alternative Benefits: State Plan Amendment- Health Opportunity Accounts Demonstration Program (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
• Dispelling Myths and Reframing the Debate to Improve Immigrant Health
• Immigrants and the US Health Care System (California Immigrant Policy Center)
• Opportunity in Action, October 31, 2006, Immigration Reform: Promoting Opportunity for All (The Opportunity Agenda)
• Facts About Immigrants’ Low Use of Health Services Public Benefits (National Immigration Law Center)
• Immigrants and the Cost of Medical Care (Health Affairs)
• It’s Not All about PhRMA: NIH’s Role in R&D
• The Role of the National Institutes of Health in Research for HIV/AIDS Prevention by Monica Ruiz, PowerPoint Presentation (amfAR- The Foundation for AIDS Research)
• It’s Not All About PhRMA: NIH’s Role in R&D by David Moore, PowerPoint Presentation (Association of American Medical Colleges)
• The Bad and the Ugly: Federal Threats to Health Insurance Regulation
• Stop the Erosion of State-Enacted Consumer Protections- S.1955/ HIMMA (Families USA)
• Health Care Coverage: S. 1955 Insurance Act Tool Kit (National Partnership for Women and Families)
• Medicare’s New Alphabet Soup: Mm’m Good?
• Medicare’s New Alphabet Soup, Mm’m Good?- The Beneficiaries Perspective by David Lipschutz, PowerPoint Presentation (California Health Advocates)
• Medicare’s New Alphabet Soup: A National and Historical Perspective by Marsha Gold, PowerPoint Presentation (Mathematica Policy Research)
• Additional Information on topics covered by Marsha Gold in her presentation
• Promoting Health Care Advocacy: Foundation Perspectives
• Grantmaking Trends in Health Advocacy by Anne Schwartz, PowerPoint Presentation (Grantmakers in Health)

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Workshop Session IV

• From Policy to Practice: Addressing Language and Culture in Health Care
• Opportunities and Challenges for Policy Developments by Mara Youdelman, PowerPoint Presentation (National Health Law Program)
• “SCHIPs” Ahoy: Planning the Next Batch of State Children’s Health Insurance Programs
• Getting to the Finish Line: Where We Have Been, Where We Need to Go and How to Get There by Lisa Dubay, PowerPoint Presentation (Johns Hopkins Bloomsberg School of Public Health and Center for Children and Families)
• Opportunities and Dangers: Consumers and Electronic Health Records
• Opportunites and Dangers: Consumers and Electronic Health Records by Paul Feldman and Deven McGraw, PowerPoint Presentation (Health Privacy Project and National Partnership for Women and Families)
• Helping People Find Insurance and Protect Their Rights
• Medicaid Buy-In Programs: Reducing Under-Insurance for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (Catalyst Center)
• Methodology for Estimating the Impact of State Implementation of the Family Opportunity Act (Catalyst Center)
• Mandated Benefits: Essential to Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (Catalyst Center)
• Assurant Health Facing Allegations That It Unfairly Denied Claims (Jan. 18, 2007: Courant.com)
• Exercise: Children with Special Needs
• COBRA
• The Short-Term Outlook for Long-Term Services and Supports
• The Short-Term Outlook for Long-Term Services and Supports by Jeff Crowley, PowerPoint Presentation (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute)
• Long Term Services and Supports: Issues in the Deficit Reduction Act and Medicaid Commission Recommendations by Marty Ford, PowerPoint Slides (The Arc and UCP Disability Policy Collaboration)
• Don’t Wait, Do Something! Steps to Take When Medicare Denies Your Claim
• Medicare Appeals by Vicki Gottlich, PowerPoint Presentation (Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.)
• Glossary of Medicare Appeals Terminology (Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.)
• In Everyone’s Vital Interest: Why Global Health Matters
• Families USA Global Health Initiative (Families USA)
• Publications of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition)
• AIDS Vaccines: The Next Frontiers (AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition)

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Workshop V 

• A Prescription for Savings: Ensuring Drug Quality, Controlling Prices
• A Prescription for Savings by Marcia Hams, Bill Vaughn and Peter Wyckoff, PowerPoint Presentation (Community Catalyst, Consumers Union and Community Catalyst respectively)
• The Drug Effectiveness Review Project: An Important Step Forward (Health Affairs)
• American Attitudes: Possibilities and Pitfalls
• Progressive Framing for Health Care by David Mermin, PowerPoint Presentation (Lake Research Partners)
• American Attitudes, Possibilities and Pitfalls by Bernie Horn, PowerPoint Presentation (Center for Policy Alternatives)
• Lessons from Long-Standing State Expansions- A Roundtable
• It’s Not Too Late: I-773 Revenues Can Increase Access to Care for Washingtonians (Jeff Huebner, Erin Burchfield and Bob Crittenden)
• Oregon Health Plan: An Historical Overview (Oregon Department of Human Services)
• Selected State Expansions (Families USA)
• A Tale of Two Budget Issues: Tobacco Tax Initiatives and TABOR
• Missouri Tax Initiatives: Victories Won and Opportunities Lost by Ruth R Ehresman, PowerPoint Presentation (Missouri Budget Project)
• Colorado: Lessons Learned from Our Mistakes and Successes by Emily Arell, PowerPoint Presentation (Colorado Consumer Health Initiative)
• State TABOR Proposals- 2005 Legislative Session (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• State TABOR Proposals- 2006 Legislative Session (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Amendment 35- Colorado Tobacco Tax (Citizens for a Healthier Colorado)
• State Cigarette Excise Tax Rates & Rankings (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids)
• Making the Connection: Using Policy and Advocacy to Reduce Disparities 
 
• Tailored to Fit: Innovation in Public Health Strategies for Women
• Nontraditional Approaches to Community Health: A Soul Sense of Beauty by Marilyn White, PowerPoint Presenation (Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health)
• Innovative Public Health Strategies for Reaching Women by Julie Galstad, PowerPoint Presentation (Montana’s Breast and Cervical Health Program)
• Expanding Children’s Coverage: Soaring Rhetoric & Nagging Realities
• Cover All Kids Health Insurance for All Children: Pennsylvania’s Success Story - How Can it Help Your State? By Alisa Simon, PowerPoint Presentation (Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth)
• Cover All Kids (Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth)

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