AcademyHealth Stateside - 04/24/2009  (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
 Welcome to State Coverage Initiatives St@teside E-newsletter
 Save the Date: SCI’s Annual Meeting for State Officials
 COBRA and Mini-COBRA: How States Are Responding to Opportunities to Help Laid-Off Workers
 New Profile in Coverage: Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus
 New HRSA State Health Access Program Guidance Now Available
 Colorado Expands Health Coverage Using a Hospital Fee
 New York Passes Medicaid Reforms in State Budget
 CHIPRA Provides New Incentives for Enhancing Children’s Coverage
 New Studies on Massachusetts Health Reform
 New Report Released on Health Care Cost Drivers in Maine
 Reports of Interest
 Registration Now Open: State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
 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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