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Webcast: The Supreme Court has ruled. Now what?

06/29/12     webcast

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Now that the Supreme Court has issued a decision on health care reform, how do you localize and cover it for your readers, listeners and viewers?

To assist reporters across the country who will need to localize the decision and what it means for their states and local communities, AHCJ will host a one-hour online roundtable of experts to offer you suggestions on stories you can pursue right away and in the weeks ahead. We will help you identify stories that make sense for you as a local or regional reporter.

Participants included:

• Alan Weil, executive director, National Academy for State Health Policy

• Governor's reactions to the court ruling.

• Kevin Outterson, associate professor of law and associate professor of health law, bioethics and human rights, Boston University

• Additional Medicaid questions for the Red-state opt out

• Brief of amici curiae, Health Law & Policy Scholars and Prescription Policy Scholars in support of respondents on the constitutional validity of the Medicaid expansion.

• Brief of Health Care For All, Inc., Health Law Advocates, Inc., The Massachusetts Hospital Association, Inc., The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Inc., Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, Inc., and Community Catalyst, Inc. as amici curiae in support of petitioners urging reversal on the minimum coverage provision issue.

• Bruce Siegel, M.D., M.P.H., president and chief executive officer, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems

• Siegel’s blog post about the ruling.

• Resources from NAPH about the Affordable Care Act and the court ruling.

• Moderator: AHCJ President Charles Ornstein, a senior correspondent for ProPublica

Additional resources mentioned during the webcast:

• Medicaid Coverage and Spending in Health Reform: National and State‐by‐State Results for Adults at or Below 133% FPL, Kaiser Family Foundation

• Download a copy of the court's opinion. (PDF)

AHCJ is committed to helping you cover this milestone decision. And for many valuable tips and resources, visit our health reform topic pages, compiled by health reform topic leader Joanne Kenen.

Some related items you will find on the health reform topic pages:

• Responses to the Supreme Court's health reform decision

• A quick guide to covering the Supreme Court ruling on health reform

• The Supreme Court's health reform decision: What you need to know

• Still plenty to watch, report on as Supreme Court considers health reform law

• Webinar: Implementing health reform in the states

• Covering state responses to Supreme Court decision on Affordable Care Act

• Get familiar with alternatives to ACA’s individual mandate

Some stories written that quoted from the webinar:

• ACA and the Medicaid Wrinkle, ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses

• Health care not changing for most Americans, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune

• Medicaid Decision Could Further Fragment Health Care, Scientific American