This is 90 minutes. Hello, everybody. Welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah, the president of the alliance for Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you today. For those of you that are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. To say hello as well to those of us watching on cspan this afternoon, and to those that are joining us on twitter using the hash tag whats next for medicaid. Collaborating with these Melinda Abrams at the Commonwealth Fund, and we think the fund for their partnership and organizing todays briefing. Since medicaid was created alongside the Medicare Program in 1965, it has grown into one of the most farreaching Health Programs in our country both in terms of the number of people it serves as well as their health and life circumstances and the cost of the program. Its run by the 50 states and territories within federal gu
Includes medicaid administrators at the state and federal levels. This is about 90 minutes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah dash and the president of the alliance or Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. I want to say hello as well to those in the audience are watching us live on cspan this afternoon. And to those are joining us on twitter using the hashtag whats next for medicaid. For moderate today spent with me is melinda abrams, Vice President for Delivery System reforms at the Commonwealth Fund and we think the fund for the partnership in organizing todays briefing. Since medicaid was created alongside the Medicare Program in 1965, it is grown into one of the most farreaching Health Programs in our country, both in terms of the
Includes medicaid administrators at the state and federal levels. This is about 90 minutes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah dash and the president of the alliance or Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. I want to say hello as well to those in the audience are watching us live on cspan this afternoon. And to those are joining us on twitter using the hashtag whats next for medicaid. For moderate today spent with me is melinda abrams, Vice President for Delivery System reforms at the Commonwealth Fund and we think the fund for the partnership in organizing todays briefing. Since medicaid was created alongside the Medicare Program in 1965, it is grown into one of the most farreaching Health Programs in our country, both in terms of the
For those of you that are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. To say hello as well to those of us watching on cspan this afternoon, and to those that are joining us on twitter using the hash tag whats next for medicaid. Collaborating with these Melinda Abrams at the Commonwealth Fund, and we think the fund for their partnership and organizing todays briefing. Since medicaid was created alongside the Medicare Program in 1965, it has grown into one of the most farreaching Health Programs in our country both in terms of the number of people it serves as well as their health and life circumstances and the cost of the program. Its run by the 50 states and territories within federal guidelines and is financed by the state and federal governme government. While medicaid policy has national implications, it of course also has major implications for states and their citizens as well. And
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