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For
Immediate Release
January 31, 2004 |
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Small
Steps Toward Coverage:
Innovations by States to Expand Health Coverage
Despite
continued state financial pressure, rising insurance premiums,
and increasing numbers of uninsured, states continued to develop
innovative strategies to expand health insurance coverage
in 2004, according to a new report, State of the States: Finding
Alternate Routes, to be released February 3, 2005. This annual
report, produced by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State
Coverage Initiatives program (SCI), tells the story of state
health coverage activities from the previous year. As the
only report to provide a comprehensive analysis of state activities
in health care coverage, State of the States is an important
resource for states to learn from one another how to improve
and expand health coverage in these challenging times.
| What:
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Launch
of 2005 annual SCI report, State of the States: Finding
Alternate Routes
| Alice
Burton |
Director,
AcademyHealth State Health Group, and SCI program
director |
| Joe
Thompson |
Principal Investigator, Arkansas Center for Health
Improvement |
| Sonia
Chambers |
Chair, West Virginia Health Care Authority |
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| When:
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February
3, 2005 |
| Time: |
10:30
a.m. |
| Where:
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Meeting
Room 19
Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel
999 Ninth Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001 |
Media
may register on-site or in advance by contacting Stacia Sanvik
at stacia.sanvik@academyhealth.org.
AcademyHealth
serves as the national program office for SCI. The SCI program
is a national initiative of The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that works with states
to plan, execute, and maintain health insurance expansions,
as well as to improve the availability and affordability of
health care coverage. Details on the SCI program are available
at www.statecoverage.net.
This
press event is held in conjunction with the National
Health Policy Conference (NHPC), sponsored by AcademyHealth
and Health Affairs.
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