Audio Conference: Game Change - Health Reform Allows Enrollment in Other Benefits to Leapfrog

Sep 22, 2010  |  Elizabeth Lower-Basch

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Health care reform has the potential to dramatically change the way low-income individuals and families apply for and receive other benefits, such as nutritional assistance and the earned income tax credit. On September 22, 2010, the Coalition to Promote Access and Opportunity hosted an audio conference with some of the nation's leading experts about how health care reform will affect low-income individuals and families - and about the opportunities to weigh in now on the choices that the federal government and states will be making over the next years.  

Speakers included:

• Sam Karp, Vice President for Programs, California HealthCare Foundation and Co-chair of the HIT Policy & Standards Committees Enrollment Workgroup;
• Kathleen Stoll, Director of Health Policy, Families USA;
• Andrew Allison, PhD, Executive Director, Kansas Health Policy Authority;
• Jason A. Helgerson, Medicaid Director, State of Wisconsin

Resources relating to the event:

• Families USA Table of Enrollment Policy Provisions in the ACA
• Families USA Summary of the Health Reform Law 
• Health Information Technology Policy & Standards Committee Enrollment Workgroup Recommendations
• Kaiser Family Foundation Explaining Health Reform: Eligibility And Enrollment Processes For Medicaid, CHIP and Subsidies in the Exchange
• Kansas Access to Comprehensive Health Project
• Wisconsin Access to Eligibility Support Services for Health and Nutrition