AcademyHealth Stateside - 03/31/2009  (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
 Welcome to State Coverage Initiatives St@teside E-newsletter
 Technical Assistance Available on Providing COBRA and Mini-COBRA Subsidies
 SCI Holds Communications Webinar
 Save the Date: SCI’s Annual Meeting for State Officials
 Court of Appeals Denies Rehearing in San Francisco Employer Health Fee Case
 States Tighten Insurance Market Regulations
 Arkansas Passes Tobacco Tax Increase to Support Health Reform
 Oklahoma Releases Plan to Expand Coverage
 New Issue Brief on HRSA State Planning Grants Program
 Health Care Plans in the President’s Budget
 The Crisis of the Uninsured and Resources on the Issue
 Reports of Interest
 Updates from AcademyHealth

Welcome to State Coverage Initiatives St@teside E-newsletter

Welcome to the St@teside e-newsletter! St@teside is the monthly newsletter of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives program, which works with states to plan, execute, and maintain health insurance expansions, as well as to improve the availability and affordability of health care coverage.

We thought you would be interested in receiving information regarding important updates on educational and networking events for state policymakers, grants and technical assistance opportunities, new developments that affect state health reform, and other reports of interest.

St@teside is a free newsletter written for state policymakers and researchers, students, policy analysts, and experts working to address challenges facing states’ efforts to expand coverage and reform the health care system. We hope you find this issue useful, and encourage you to pass along copies to your colleagues and contacts.

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