Webcast: Covering how states will prepare for second ACA enrollment season

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Join us at 2 p.m. ET on Sept. 23.

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2 p.m. ET, Sept. 23

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A recording of this webcast will be available shortly.

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The second enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act begins in November – just after the elections. What do states have to do to prepare? What tasks await the states using HealthCare.gov versus their own exchanges?

We have a chance to ask Heather Howard, a lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and the director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network, which is providing technical assistance to states implementing the ACA.

Joanne Kenen, AHCJ’s topic leader on health reform, will moderate the discussion and will be available for questions from journalists about this critical enrollment period.

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Heather H. Howard is the director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network, a program within the Center for Health and Wellbeing that provides technical assistance to states to maximize coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act. She is a lecturer in public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and a faculty affiliate at CHW. Howard brings experience in both federal and state government to the State Network and the WWS. She most recently served as the commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Health and Senior Services, a cabinet level agency with a budget of approximately $3.5 billion. There she was responsible for oversight of public health services, regulation of health care institutions, hospital financing, senior services and health care policy and research. Her prior public policy experience includes work in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the Domestic Policy Council at the White House, and the Health Care Task Force within the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Justice Department. Howard received a bachelor of arts from Duke University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. 

Heather Howard

Joanne Kenen