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This briefing is part of a series on the future of Health Insurance and we will actually be doing three summits on the future of health care this year starting with the future of Health Insurance, chronic care, and the excited that youre here and its certainly i think fair to say that when it comes to Health Insurance the future starts here and now in the senate. We have a lot to talk about today but before we do i want to thank our sponsors for todays session, our annual Summit Series sponsors are an thumb, ascension and health is primary and i would like to thank them, also the Blue Cross Bl...

Good morning everyone. Today the subcommittee of oversight and investigation holds a hearing entitled combatting the Opioid Crisis battles in the states. Now, make no mistake the term combatting and battled are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of devastation around every corner of the nation. In 2015 there were more than in the u. S. , more than 33,000 deaths involved in opioid. 24 increase from the prior year. Overdose death rate in 2015 was almost seven times the rate of deaths from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. For 2016 weve already announced from New York Times weve los...

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...

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 i...

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 i...