Health Action 2010: Conference Materials

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Opening Plenary: Putting Health Reform in Perspective
- Representative Donna Edwards, (D-MD)
- Senator Al Franken, (D-MN)
- Kathleen Sebelius, Department of Health & Human Services
Workshops: Session I
Luncheon Presenters
- Benjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP
Workshops: Session II
Plenary: Making the Most of Health Reform in the States
- Jon Kingsdale, Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority
  - Lessons from Massachusetts for Implementing National Health Care Reform (Powerpoint)
- Alan Weil, National Academy for State Health Policy

Friday, January 29, 2010

Plenary: Improving Patient Care, Controlling Costs, Saving Lives
- Donald Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  - Better Care at Lower Cost:Principles of Design (Powerpoint)
- Elliott Fisher, Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth
Workshops: Session III
Workshops: Session IV
Plenary: Public Support: Critical to Health Reform Implementation
- Bob Crittenden, Herndon Alliance
- Patrick Gaspard, White House Office of Political Affairs
- Jeffrey Liszt, Anzalone Liszt Research

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Plenary: Future Directions for the Health Reform Movement
- Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
- Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs
- Ezra Klein, The Washington Post
Workshops: Session V
Special Presentation and Closing Plenary
- Special Presentation: Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Closing Plenary: Doctor Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States

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Workshop Session I

Closing the Gap: Health Reform and Communities of Color
- Cara James, Kaiser Family Foundation
  - Federal Health Reform: What’s in it for Me? (Powerpoint)
- Mara Youdelman, National Health Law Program (NHeLP)
  - Health Reform: What’s In and What’s Out re: CLAS (Powerpoint)
Green Light Go: Streamlining Enrollment
- Kate Bicego, Health Care for All Massachusetts
  - Green Light Go: Streamlining Enrollment for Low-Income People (Powerpoint)
- Stan Dorn, Urban Institute
  - 21st-Century Enrollment and Retention (Powerpoint)
Hitting the Ground Running: The Basics of Private Insurance and New Market Reforms
- Robert Kraig, Citizen Action of Wisconsin
- Kevin Lucia, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute
  - Markets, Mergers and Exchanges: Considerations for State Consumer Advocates (Powerpoint)
- Michael Miller, Community Catalyst
  - Holding Down Insurance Premiums: How PPACA Would Help (Powerpoint)
- Cheryl Fish-Parcham, Families USA
  - Hit the Ground Running: Resolving Consumer Problems with Private Insurance (Powerpoint)
Implementation Challenges Roundtable: Post-Reform Grassroots Organizing
- Jim Duffett, Campaign for Better Health Care, Illinois
- Amy Smoucha, Missouri Jobs with Justice
Medicare after Health Reform
- Ahaviah Glaser, AARP
- Stuart Guterman, The Commonwealth Fund
  - Medicare’s Future: What Does It Hold? (Powerpoint)
- Marc Steinberg, Families USA
  - Talking About Medicare and Health Reform (Powerpoint)
More than Just a Card?
- Deborah Kilstein, Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP)
- Claudine Swartz, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems
What’s Happening in Long-Term Services? Reports from the States
- Carol Irvin, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
  - Money Follows the Person (MFP) (Powerpoint)
- Laval Miller-Wilson, Pennsylvania Health Law Project

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Workshop Session II

Beyond Health Care: Health Equity Strategies
- Chinwe Onyekere, Project HEALTH NY
  - Mobilizing a Pipeline of New Leaders to Change Health Care Delivery (Powerpoint)
  - Mobilizing Our Nation’s College Students to Address Social Determinants of Health (PDF)
- Carol Bryant Payne, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Click to Communicate: Internet Advocacy
- Colin Delaney, Epolitics.com
- Donna Norton, MomsRising
  - Using Online Organizing to Engage Parents (Powerpoint)
- Alan Rosenblatt, Center for American Progress
Getting Closer: Finding and Enrolling Uninsured Children
- Michael Jacob, Covering Kids and Families, Wisconsin
  - Serving Health Insurance with School Lunch: The CHILD Project (Powerpoint)
- Genevieve Kenney, Urban Institute
  - Covering Children in Medicaid/ CHIP: Who Remains Uninsured And What Are The Prospects for Covering More? (Powerpoint)
- Kelli King-Jackson, Children’s Defense Fund, Texas
  - A school-based Children’s Health Insurance Program/Children’s Medicaid Outreach Model (Powerpoint)
Health Reform and Long-Term Services: What’s In It, and Where Do We Go from Here?
- Judy Feder, Center for American Progress
- Howard Gleckman, Urban Institute
Medicaid after Health Reform
- Rachel Klein, Families USA
- Judy Solomon, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Next Act for Medicare Advantage
- Vicki Gottlich, Center for Medicare Advocacy
  - Medicare Advantage: 2010 and Beyond (Powerpoint)
  - CMS Releases Interim Final Regulations For Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans (HTML page)
  - Important New Medicare Law Provisions: A Beneficiary's Perspective (Part 2) (HTML page)
  - Important New Medicare Law Provisions: A Beneficiary's Perspective (Part 4) (HTML page)
  - When Medicare Advantage Plans Do Not Renew Their Contracts (HTML page)
- Danielle Moon, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  - Medicare Advantage 2010 (Powerpoint)
Story Banking 101: True Grit—Reaching the Public with Real Health Care Stories
- Judi Hilman, Utah Health Policy Project
  - Intro to Storybank Subscription (PDF)
  - Utah Business Story Bank Questionnaire (PDF)
- Brian Rothgery, Citizen Action of Wisconsin
  - Health Insurance Survey (PDF)
  - Story Write-Up Template (PDF)
The Way We Pay: The Role of Consumers in New Health Care Payment Models
- Joe Ditre, Consumers for Affordable Health Care
  - Payment Reform in Maine (Powerpoint)
- Lee Partridge, National Partnership for Women and Families
  - Making Payment Reforms Work for Patients and Families (Powerpoint)
  - Payment System Reforms: What Consumer and Patient Advocates Need to Know (PDF)
- Brian Rosman, Health Care for All
  - Consumers Organize for Payment Reform (Powerpoint)

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Workshop Session III

Battling the Budget Axe
- Nicholas Johnson, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  - State Fiscal Crisis (Powerpoint)
- Nathan Newman, Progressive States Network
  - Revenue Strategies for Funding Health Care Goals (Powerpoint)
- Tim Sweeney, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
  - Balancing Georgia’s Medicaid and CHIP Budgets (Powerpoint)
The Devil Is in the Details: The Exchange, Subsidies, and Benefits Packages
- Kim Bailey, Families USA
  - The Exchanges & Subsidies: A (Very) Brief Overview (Powerpoint)
- Tekisha Everette, American Diabetes Association
- Nancy Turnbull, Harvard University and the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority Board
  - The Devil is in the Details: The Exchange, Subsidies and Benefit Packages (Powerpoint)
Don’t Look Back! Building a Health Care Campaign in the Post-Reform World
- Workshop Notes (PDF)
Getting Your Message Out: Strategies for Advancing Health Equity
- Reza C. Clifton, UrbanHealthWatch.net
  - Equipment, Links and New Media Resources for Blogs, Podcasts, and Social Networking Sites (PDF)
  - Tips and Ideas for Maintaining a Blog, Starting a Podcast and Using Social Networking Sites (PDF)
- Michael Curry, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Disparities Action Network
- Phil Sparks, Communications Consortium Media Center
Health Reform and Expanding Home- and Community-Based Services in Medicaid
- Gene Coffey, National Senior Citizens Law Center
  - Health Reform and Expanding Home and Community-Based Services in Medicaid (Powerpoint)
- Lee Goldberg, Service Employees International Union
  - State Balancing Incentive Payments Program (Powerpoint)
- Rhonda Richards, AARP
  - Health Care Reform and Expanding Home and Community-Based Services in Medicaid: A Closer Look (Powerpoint)
SHIPs and Policy: Helping Medicare Beneficiaries
- Chris DeYoung, Health Insurance Counseling Project, George Washington University Community Legal Clinics
- Tobi Johnson, Medicare Policy Consultant
- Seemin Pasha, Health Assistance Partnership

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Workshop Session IV

The Brave New World: CHIP in 2010
- Carrie Fitzgerald, Child and Families Policy Center, Iowa
- Jennifer Sullivan, Families USA
- Victoria Wachino, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Cutting through the Static: Media Tips for Getting Your Message Heard
- Patrick McCabe, GYMR
The Federal Government’s Role in Addressing Disparities in Health
- Shenena Armstrong, HRSA
- Cecilia Rivera Casale, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations
  - Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Powerpoint)
- Guadalupe Pacheco, HHS Office of Minority Health
  - National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (Powerpoint)
Getting Help to Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries
- Heather Bates, Medicare Rights Center
  - Families USA Health Action 2010 To Do List (PDF)
  - MIPPA Implementatio in New York State (PDF)
- Georgia Burke, National Senior Citizens Law Center
- Hilary Sohmer Dalin, National Council on Aging
  - MIPPA Changes Impacting People with Medicare (Powerpoint)
In the Trenches: Capitol Hill View on Health Reform
- Senator Kennedy quote, 1978 (Powerpoint)
Messaging Challenges for States
- Jim Duffett, Campaign for Better Health Care, Illinois
  - Campaign for Better Health Care Draft Resolution (PDF)
  - HCJAII Key Provisions (PDF)
  - How to Write an Excellent LTE That Gets Published (PDF)
  - LTE Builder (PDF)
  - LTE Builder - Anti Reform (PDF)
  - LTE Builder - Pro Reform (PDF)
  - Messaging Technique: Bridging/Transitioning to Our Message (PDF)
  - The Positive Case for Health Reform and Effective Responses to Oppositional Attacks (PDF)
- Jeffrey Liszt, Anzalone Liszt Research
- Sherry Prowda, Herndon Alliance
- Cynthia Zeldin, Georgians for a Healthy Future
State Opportunities in Health Reform
- Dave Chandra, D.C. Department of Health Care Finance
  - Health Care Expansions in the District of Columbia (Powerpoint)
- Richard Popper, Maryland Health Insurance Plan
  - State High Risk Pools - Bridges to Health Reform (Powerpoint)
- Sonya Schwartz, National Academy for State Health Policy
  - State Opportunities in Health Reform (Powerpoint)
- High-Risk Health Insurance Pools (PDF)
- State Opportunities in Health Reform: Helpful Resources (PDF)
Women and Health Reform: Where We Landed and Where We Go from Here
- Lisa Codispoti, National Women’s Law Center
- Priscilla Huang, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
- Cindy Pearson, National Women’s Health Network and Raising Women’s Voices

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Workshop V

American Indian Health Policy: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
- Jennifer Cooper, National Indian Health Board
  - American Indians and Alaska Natives in Health Care Reform (Powerpoint)
- Cara Thunder, American Indian Community House
- Donald Warne, Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board
  - American Indian Health Policy: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going (Powerpoint)
Fundraising Strategies for 2010: Thrivin’ & Survivin’
- Liz Doyle, TakeAction Minnesota
- Suzanne Gilbert, Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative Education Fund
- Matt Singer, Forward Montana
- Tom Swan, Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Helping Your Neighbors: Consumer Assistance Programs

Betsy Dooley, Health Assist Tennessee
- Health Assist Tennessee (Powerpoint)
Ellen Kuhn, Maryland Office of the Attorney General, Health Education and Advocacy Unit
- Overview of the Health Education and Advocacy Unit (Powerpoint)
Priya Mendon, New York City Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program

Consumer Assistance Programs: A Vital Piece of the Health Care Reform Puzzle (Powerpoint)
Building Consumer Engagement in Health Care (PDF)

Asking Our Neighbors: Advice from CHAPs on Establishing a Successful Program (PDF)
Assistance for Health Care Consumers: Key Provisions of State Laws (PDF)
Designing a Consumer Health Assistance Program (PDF)
Establishing a Consumer Health Assistance Program in Your Community (HTML page)
From Concept to Operation: A Guide to Developing Assistance Programs for Health Care Consumers (PDF)

Life in the Fast Lane: Express Lane Eligibility
- Mary Coogan, Association for Children of New Jersey
  - Life in the Fast Lane: Express Lane Eligibility (Powerpoint)
- Kyle Viator, Louisiana Medicaid, LACHIP Eligibility Division
  - Life in the Fast Lane: Express Lane Eligibility (Powerpoint)
Making Consumer Voices Heard: A Brainstorming Session
- Rose Calnin, Campaign for Better HealthCare, Illinois
  - The Story Bank: Investing in Advocacy (PDF)
  - Story Bank Example (PDF)
- Joon Powell, Photojournalist
Roadblocks to Health Reform Implementation
- Lisa Codispoti, National Women’s Law Center
- Enzo Pastore, Progressive States Network
  - Conservatives Launch State Effort to Derail Health Reform (PDF)
  - State Efforts to Derail Health Reform (Powerpoint)
- Representative Krysten Sinema, Arizona House of Representatives
Senior Advocacy Networks: Building Successful Models
- Tatiana Fassieux, California SHIP (HICAP)
- Alissa Eden Halperin, Independent Consultant
- David Lipschutz, California Health Advocates
- California Health Insurance Counseling & Advocacy Program (HICAP) (PDF)
- Senior Advocacy Networks: Building Successful Models (PDF)
- Senior Advocacy Networks: Two Campaigns Involving Senior Advocacy Networks (PDF)
- Strengthening SHIP Advocacy in Your State – California’s Example (PDF)

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