Feb 23 briefing to explore long term sustainability of Medicaid
Briefing to Explore Long-term Sustainability of Medicaid on February 23
A Kaiser study on the long-term sustainability of Medicaid will be released at the Health Affairs sponsored briefing, “The Future of Medicaid: Is It Sustainable, and Should It Be Reformed?” on Friday, February 23, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The briefing features Richard Kronick, Professor and Chief, Division of Health Care Sciences, University of California, San Diego and David Rousseau, Principal Policy Analyst, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Director, statehealthfacts.org, authors of the Kaiser study. It also includes John Holahan, Director, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, and Alan Weil, Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy, authors of a second paper assessing reform options, and discussants Jean Lambrew, Senior Fellow, The Center for American Progress and Associate Professor for Health Policy, George Washington University; and Howard Cohen of HC Associates Inc.; with John Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs.