Martinez-Vidal Named SCI
Director
After an exhaustive
national search, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named
Enrique Martinez-Vidal the national program director for the
State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program, effective July
1. [view
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SCI Announces States Participating
in the Coverage Institute
Fourteen states have been accepted to participate in the
State Coverage Initiatives program's second annual Coverage
Institute. [view
full article]
New State Updates
Legislative updates from New York, Oregon, and
Maine. [view
full article]
Implementation Work Continues in
Massachusetts
When the individual mandate to obtain health insurance took
effect July 1, the Massachusetts health care reform plan
reached another important milestone. [view
full article]
New Publication on Auto-Enrollment:
Strategies for Enrolling Eligible Populations
A paper authored by the Urban Institute's Stan
Dorn, Automatic Enrollment Strategies: Helping State
Coverage Expansions Achieve Their Goals, is now
available. [view
full article]
Reinsurance Institute: Final
Meeting
On July 19, 2007,
states participating in SCI's Reinsurance Institute reconvened
for a final meeting to review the findings of the work
undertaken during the course of the
Institute. [view
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State Health Access Reform
Evaluation Call for Proposals to be Released Aug.
6
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, through the new State Health Access Reform
Evaluation (SHARE) National Program, will issue
a call for proposals to support research and evaluation
of state reform initiatives that focus on health insurance
access. [view
full article]
Reports of Interest
Reports of Interest from the Center for Health
Care Strategies, Health Affairs, Alliance for Health
Reform, and others. [view
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article]
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