Next, a look at the future of medicaid and how it could be impacted by proposed Health Care Policy changes hosted by the alliance for health reform. All right, were ready. Good afternoon. Welcome. Im sarah dash, im president and coceo for the alliance for health reform, and for those of you not familiar with us, the alliance is a nonpartisan, not for profit organization. Weve been around for 25 years, and our mission is to inform policy makers and help policy leaders on the most pressing Health Policy issues and get you guys the foundations of Health Policy, the evidence, and the practice, and today we are here to talk about one of the most pressing Health Policy issues that has been making a lot of headlines recently, and that is the Medicaid Program. Medicaid covers over 70 Million People, as we will hear, and it is responsible for taking care of very, very diverse populations with an enormous range of medical needs, from healthy newborn babies, to children with very special health c
Good afternoon. Welcome. Im sarah dash. Im president and coceo of the aligns for health reform. Those of you not familiar with us the aligns is a nonpartisan not for profit attention organization within been around 25 years. Our mission is to inform policy make areas eras and help policy leaders on the most pressing policy issues get you guys the foundations of Health Policy, the evidence and the practice. And today we are here to talk about one of the most pressing Health Policy issues that has been making a lot of headlines recently that is the medicate program. Medicaid covers over 70 Million People as we will hear. And it is responsible for taking care of very, very diverse population was an enormous range of medical needs from healthy knew born babies to children with special Health Care Needs to low income adults, people with serious illness and disability and more. As we all know recent legislation proposed the American Health care act would have made major changes to the Medica
Informsion is to policymakers and policy leaders of the most pressing issues and getting the foundation of Health Policy and the evidence and practice and today we here to talk about one of the most resident policy pressing issues and that is the Medicaid Program. Recent legislation would if it made major changes to the Medicaid Program and the discussion about the policy is not over. It will examine medicaid coverage, access to care and Health Outcomes and what might be next in the states and congress and the administration. And i would like to thank our partner, the Commonwealth Fund and we are grateful for their support. And before i introduce our panel, i want to take care of a couple of housekeeping details. Wifiose of you who need credentials, they should be up on the screen. You can tweet to futureofmedicaid. When the time comes for questions, many of you know the drill, but write your question on a green question card or come to one of the microphones on either side of the aisl
Practice. And today were here to talk about one of the most pressing Health Policy issues thats been making a lot of headlines recently, and that is the Medicaid Program. Medicaid covers over 70 Million People, as we will hear, and it is responsible todays briefing is going to examine the relationship between medicaid coverage, access to care and Health Outcomes, as well as what might be next for medicaid in the states and congress and in the administration. And id like to thank first our sponsor for todays event, our partner, the Commonwealth Fund. Were very grateful for their support of this briefing, and before i introduce our panel, i just want to take care of a couple of housekeeping details. First, for those of you who need wifi credentials, they should be up on the screen. You can tweet to futureofmedicaid. And when the time comes for questions, many of you know the drill, but write your question on a green question card or come to one of the mikes on either side of the aisle or