Fourth in a series of interactive webcasts …
AHCJ-Kaiser Family Foundation Interactive Roundtable
The webcast, from March 6, 2007, is now available.
With the State Children's Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) up for reauthorization, this roundtable – a partnership between the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Kaiser Family Foundation – focuses on what journalists need to know about covering SCHIP in their states. Health reform proposals announced by would-be presidential candidates call for expanding coverage through SCHIP.
Among the questions our experts will answer are: how successful has the program been at reducing the rate of uninsurance among children; how is the program financed; what changes are being contemplated for the program; what are the barriers and red tape families encounter trying to use the program; should it be a building block for comprehensive reform?
Moderator: Trudy Lieberman, director of the health and medical reporting program at City University of New York, and president of AHCJ board of directors
Panelists:
- Robin Rudowitz – principal policy analyst, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
- Becky Shipp – health policy adviser, Senate Finance Committee, minority staff
- Alan Weill – executive director, National Academy for State Health Policy
- Alice Weiss – health counsel, Senate Finance Committee, majority staff