Only One Month Left to Register for SCI's
Summer Workshop for State Officials in San
Francisco
The deadline to register for the State Coverage Initiatives
(SCI) program’s 2008 Summer Workshop for State Officials is
July 1.
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SCI's Reinsurance Institute Issues
Final Report
A new report highlights the lessons learned during SCI's
Reinsurance Institute and provides analysis on reinsurance
modeling and lessons learned from state-specific work with
Washington, Rhode
Island, and
Wisconsin.
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Recent State Updates
Updates on state health reforms from Colorado, Florida,
Kansas, Illinois, and New York.
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Minnesota Legislature Passes
Historic Health Care Reform Legislation
The Minnesota
legislature has passed health care reform legislation that is
broad in its scope, including major provisions that improve
health care coverage and affordability, payment reform and
price/quality transparency, chronic care management,
administrative efficiency, and public health
improvement.
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Maine Passes Funding Package for
DirigoChoice Health Plan
On April 16, Maine Governor
John E. Baldacci signed into
law a bill aimed at changing the financing for the
DirigoChoice Health Plan, the center piece of the 2003 Dirigo
Health Reform Act.
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Enrollment in Wisconsin's BadgerCare
Plus Program Exceeds Expectations
On February 1, 2008,
Wisconsin
launched the BadgerCare Plus program, which expanded and
simplified eligibility for health coverage in the state. In
the first six weeks of the program, more than 71,000
individuals—many of them children and the majority of whom
were previously uninsured—were enrolled in the
program.
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California Consumer Groups,
Regulators, and Government Officials Focus on Health Coverage
Rescissions
There has been a flurry of activity in
California in
recent months related to insurance companies that are
rescinding health coverage once their enrollees become
sick.
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Register Now For State Health
Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
The State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
will be held Saturday, June 7, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00
p.m. in Washington, D.C.
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GAO Reports Highlight CMS Directive,
Health Savings Accounts, and State Budgets
The Government Accountability Office has published three
reports of relevance to state health care
reform.
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Reports of Interest
Reports of interest from Health Affairs, The
Commonwealth Fund, Alliance for Health Reform, New America
Foundation, and others.
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