Health Action 2008: Conference Materials

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Plenaries

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Opening Plenary
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi
- Senator Blanche Lincoln (AR)
Plenary: Health Care Heroes Award
- The Frost Family
Luncheon Presenters
- Senator Ken Salazar (CO)
- Governor Mark Warner (VA)
Special Presentation
- Drew Altman (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Plenary: Electing Health
- Paul Begala (CNN)
- Stan Greenberg (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner)
  - Health Care Provides Opportunity for Progressives, Powerpoint Presentation

Friday, January 25, 2008

Special Presentation
- Senator Tom Daschle
Special Plenary: Our Interests and Responsibilities in a Shrinking World
- Dr. Anthony S. Fauci (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)
  - Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Perpetual Challenge to Global Health, Powerpoint Presentation
Plenary: The Quality Connection
- Dr. Donald M. Berwick (Institute for Health Care Improvement)
  - Improving Health Care Quality, Powerpoint Presentation
Plenary: Voters and Health Care
- Drew Westen (author, "The Political Brain")
- Celinda Lake (Lake Research Partners)
  - How to Talk to Voters About Health Care: Progressive Framing and Messages, Powerpoint Presentation

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Plenary: Yes We Can!
- Jeff Kirsch (Fight Crime: Invest in Kids)
  - Nonprofits in an Election Season, Powerpoint Presentation
- John Pomeranz (Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg)
Closing Plenary: All Together, Now!
- Wade Henderson (Leadership Council on Civil Rights)

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Workshop Session I

Riding the CHIP Reauthorization Rollercoaster: Is It Over Yet?
- Rachel Klein (Families USA)
- Jen Beeson (Families USA)
Pioneers in State Health Reform: MA and VT One Year Later
- Brian Rossman (Health Care For All)
- Lindsey Tucker (Health Care For All)
- Richard Davis (Vermont Citizens Campaign for Health)
Medicare Advantage: Stopping the Drive to Privatize
- Vicki Gottlich (Center for Medicare Advocacy)
  - Medicare Advantage Plans: Issues for Advocates, Powerpoint Presentation
- Marc Steinberg (Families USA)
- Alissa Halperin (Pennsylvania Health Law Project)
  - Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans, Powerpoint Presentation
Universal and Equal: Ensuring Equity in State Health Reform
- Brian Smedley (The Opportunity Agenda)
  - Universal and Equal: Ensuring Equity in State Health Care Reform, Powerpoint Presentation
- Sara Adland (University of Michigan, School of Public Health)
- Camille Watson (Health Care For All)
When We Weren't Looking: Devious Attempts to Harm Vulnerable Populations
- Jeff Crowley (Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University)
- Gene Coffey (National Senior Citizens Law Center)
Global Health Matters-In Your Own Backyard
- Dr. Nancy Glass (Johns Hopkins University)
  - Global Health Matters-In Your Own Backyard, Powerpoint Presentation
- Dr. Shannon Hader (Washington, DC HIV/AIDS Administration)
Private Insurance 101: What Advocates Need to Know
- Kevin Lembo (Connecticut Office of the Health Care Advocate)
- Cheryl Fish-Parcham (Families USA)
Radio 101 and Podcasting
- Ellen Ratner (Washington Bureau Chief, Talk Radio News)

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Workshop Session II

Covering Kids in Tenuous Times: What to Do with What We've Got
- Tim Sweeney (Georgia Budget & Policy Institute)
  - How Georgia Coped with Federal Funding Shortfalls in 2007, Powerpoint Presentation
- Mary Wachtel (Voices for Ohio's Children)
  - Covering Kids in Tenuous Times: Ohio, Powerpoint Presentation
- Jon Peacock (Wisconsin Council on Children and Families)
  - Covering Children in Wisconsin, Powerpoint Presentation
Exploring Federal Lobby and Ethics Rules for State Advocates
- Mike Trister (Lichtman, Trister & Ross)
- Gary Bass (OMB Watch)
Improving Medicare: What's Next?
- Mara Youdelman (National Health Law Program)
- Monica Sanchez (Medicare Rights Center)
Blogs: What's the Big Deal?
- Ezra Klein (The American Prospect)
- Meg Kroeplin (Community Partners, Inc.)
Health Insurance in a Changing Marketplace
- Gary Claxton (Kaiser Family Foundation)
  - Changes in the U.S. Healthcare System, Powerpoint Presentation
- Mila Kofman (Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University)
  - PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE: Complex rules, hidden features and other insurance contracts terms that can leave consumers with high out-of-pocket liability, Powerpoint Presentation
- Maynard McAlpin (CareFirst of the National Capital Area)
Minority Health Coalitions: Why Every State Needs One
- Sabrina Morales (The Multicultural Health Network)
- Marty Martinez (CA Pan Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN)
- Pilar Ingargiola (Colorado Multi-Ethnic/Cultural Consortium)
Framing the Moral Message for the 2008 Elections
- Rev. Linda Walling (Faithful Reform in Health Care)
  - Vision & Voice: Faithful Citizens and Health Care, pdf.
  - Selected moral values from faith teachings that undergird our conversation about health care, Word Doc.
- Jessica Palys (Campaign for Better Health Care)
  - Health Care Sabbath Congregational Advocacy ToolKit, pdf.
  - Health Care Sabbath Flyer, Word Doc.
  - Health Care Justice Faith Initiative: Vision Statement, Word Doc.
  - Sound the Alarm for Health Care Justice, Word Doc.
  - Sound the Alarm for Health Care Justice Flyer, Word Doc.
- Ryan Bell (PICO National Network)
State Health Care Campaigns: A Roundtable Discussion

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Workshop Session III

Forecast-Fog: Charting a Course in Congress
- Caya Lewis (Senate HELP Committee)
- Cybele Bjorkland (House Ways and Means Committee)
- Bridgett Taylor (Majority Counsel, Senate Subcommittee on Health, Energy and Commerce)
- Jackie Bender (Office of Rep. Lloyd Doggett, TX)
Worldview: Domestic Advocacy and Global Health
- Sue Perez (Treatment Action Group, TAG)
- Elvira Beracochea (MIDEGO Inc.)
The Match Game: Building Relationships with Funders to Support Health Care Advocacy
- Margaret O'Bryon (The Consumer Health Foundation)
- Andrew D. Hyman (The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Philip O. Gonzalez (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation)
So You Want to Expand Coverage?
- Christine Barber (Community Catalyst)
- Kelly Shanahan (Colorado Consumer Health Initiative)
  - The Colorado Experience, Powerpoint Presentation
- Cheryl Fish-Parcham (Families USA)
Enrolling and Retaining Children in Medicaid and CHIP: Strategies that Hold Water
- Stan Dorn (The Urban Institute)
- Caroline Rivas (Community Health Councils, Inc.)
- Michael DeChiara (Community Partners, Inc.)
- Diana Ragbeer (The Children's Trust)
Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries: Part D and Beyond
- Patricia Nemore (Center for Medicare Advocacy)
- Kevin Prindiville (National Senior Citizens Law Center)
The Power of Engaging Ethnic Media in Advocacy Efforts
- Sherrie Flynt Wallington (Harvard University)
- Viji Sundaram (New America Media)

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Workshop Session IV

Savings, Safety, and Solutions: Pharma's Undue Influence on Prescribing Solutions
- Sharon Treat (National Legislative Assocation on Prescription Drug Prices)
  - Practice Under the Influence?: How States are Addressing Pharmas’s Outsize Influence on Medical Decisions, Public Health and Medicaid, Powerpoint Presentation
  - How States Are Addressing Pharma’s Influence on Medical Decisions, Public Health and the Medicaid Budget, PDF handout
- Jeff Huebner (Coalition for Prescribing Integrity)
  - Case Study: Washington State Coalition for Prescribing Integrity, Powerpoint Presentation
- Michelle Spetman (Independent Drug Information Service)
Down, But Not Out: Promising Practices to Cover Immigrants
- Adam Thompson (Progressive States Network)
  - State Immigration Project: Policy Options for 2008, PDF
- Alan Jenkins (The Opportunity Agenda)
Advocacy for Quality Health Care
- Helen Haskell (Mothers Against Medical Error)
- Lisa McGiffert (Campaign Manager, Stop Hospital Infections, Consumers Union)
  - Stop Hospital Infections, Powerpoint Presentation
- Dave Palm (National Speaking of Women's Health Foundation)
  - Cincinnati Aligning Forces for Quality, Powerpoint Presentation
- Jennifer Sweeney (The National Partnership for Women & Families)
  - The Consumer Connection, Powerpoint Presentation
Finding Cures for Global Diseases: What's Our Score?
- Vera Nesland (CDC Foundation)
- Peter Hotez (Sabin Vaccine Institute)
Stretching Out or Cramping Up? The Impact of State Medicaid Flexibility
- Judy Soloman (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
  - Powerpoint Presentation
- Sonya Scwartz (National Academy of State Health Policy)
  - Powerpoint Presentation
- Angela Gilliard (Western Center on Law and Poverty)
  - California Health Reform: Low Income Eligibility, Benefits & Cost Sharing, Powerpoint Presentation
Story Banking: Personal Stories Make a Difference
- Andrew Cohen (Boston Health Access Project)
- Aman Gohal (Organization Development Consultant, formerly with Families USA)
Consumer Health Assistance Roundtable
- Adrian Redd (Health Education and Advocacy Unit, Office of the Maryland Attorney General)
- Nora Chaves (NYC Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program)
- Tatiana Fassieux (Health Insurance Counseling and Assistance Program, HICAP)

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Workshop V

Shining a Light: Identifying the Needs of All Populations
- Deeana Jang (Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum)
- Kawen Young (Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Alliance)
  - Navigating our Way to Healthy Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Families, Powerpoint Presentation
- Kitty Marx (National Indian Health Board)
The Internet Is Not Just a Series of Tubes
- Alan Rosenblatt (Center for American Progress)
- John Hlinko (Grassroots Enterprise)
- Shannon Raybold (UN Foundation)
Fad or Fantastic: Emerging Trends in Health Care
- Nikita Barai (IMPACT DC)
- Claire McAndrew (Families USA)
  - Reward/Penalty Plans in Employer-Sponsored and Medicaid Coverage, Powerpoint Presentation
The Face of Women In the Health Care Crisis, PDF
- Lisa Codispoti (National Women's Law Center)
- Tameshia Bridges (PHI's Health Care for Health Care Workers Campaign)
Long-Term Care: Financing for the Future
- Heather Bates (NYC Department for the Aging)
  - The Counseling Perspective: Educating New York City about Long-Term Care Insurance, Powerpoint Presentation
- Harriet L. Komisar (Health Policy Institute, Long-Term Care Financing Project, Georgetown University)
  - Financing Long-Term Care: Policy Options for the Future, Powerpoint Presentation
The Bottom Line: Small Businesses and Health Care Reform
- Bob Fulkerson (Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, PLAN)
- John Arensmeyer (Small Business Majority)
- Joshua Welter (Washington CAN!)
- Terry Gardiner (Herndon Alliance)
  - Business Engagement and Communication: Strategic Plan for Health Care Reform Advocates – Model, Word Doc.
  - Health Care and Business: Effective Engagement and Communications, Word Doc.

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