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The Health Innovations (B) Working Group has disbanded.
Mission
The missions of the Health Innovations (B) working group are to review issues surrounding the uninsured and underinsured and strategies for achieving universal coverage, to determine what contributions state insurance regulators, from their unique perspective, can make to the debate, and to develop appropriate vehicles to convey any positions or principles the committee develops to a multiplicity of audiences.
Fall 2008 Meeting: Reinsurance
The fall 2008 meeting of the Working Group focused on the use of reinsurance to help reduce premiums and improve access to health insurance coverage.
Witnesses:
Summer 2008 Meeting: Health Care Costs
The Summer 2008 meeting of the working group,focused on strategies for reducing the high cost of health care in the United States while fostering greater quality and efficiency.
Witnesses:
- The Honorable John M. Colmers, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Colmers Presentation [PPT]
- Mark Blum, Executive Director, America's Agenda
- Bill McDonough, Collective Bargaining Director, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
- Marty Wilson, Coalition to Advance Health Reform
Wilson Presentation [PPT]
- Hon. Kim Belshé, Secretary, California Health and Human Services Agency
Belshé Presentation [PPT]
- Dr. Carla Kakutani, Immediate Past President California Association of Family Physicians
Kakutani Presentation [PPT]
- Brent Barnhardt, Kaiser Permanente
Barnhardt Presentation [PPT]
- Dr. Steven Halpern, M.D., FCCP, Senior Market Medical Executive for California, CIGNA HealthCare
Halpern Presentation [PPT]
- Shari Westerfield, Chair, American Academy of Actuaries State Health Committee
Westerfield Presentation [PPT]
- Additional Submission:
National Committee for Quality Assurance [DOC]
Spring 2008 Meeting: State Cost Containment Efforts
The Spring 2008 meeting of the working group focused on states' efforts to reduce health care costs through a variety of measures.
Witnesses:
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