Health Reform
Health reform involves extending insurance coverage and restructuring the health care delivery system to focus on prevention and primary care, reducing costs, and improving quality. Foundations are well positioned to help by educating consumers, supporting state implementation, transforming the safety net, expanding the health care workforce, and supporting innovations for high-cost patients.
In 2010 GIH established the GIH Health Reform Resource Center Fund, which allows GIH to increase staff resources and programming in order to inform and connect funders supporting work related to health reform.
Contact Ann McMillan for more information about our programming in this area.
Upcoming Events Spotlight
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March 7, 2019 1:30 pmThis webinar will review the range of state health care initiatives being proposed by governors, including efforts to expand health insurance coverage, address the affordability of health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, tackle social determinants of health, increase access to behavioral health services, and more.
Issue Spotlight
This page from the Kaiser Family Foundation aggregates tracking information on pending and approved Section 1115 Medicaid waivers, including such resources as an overview map and figure, detailed waiver topic tables, and explanatory briefs.
In a new Commonwealth Fund post, authors from Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms find that state insurance departments' efforts to regulate these plans and protect consumers from poor-quality coverage and abusive sales tactics may be undermined by a loophole: many short-term plans are being sold through out-of-state associations that are exempt from state regulation.
Upcoming Events
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March 7, 2019 1:30 pm
This webinar will review the range of state health care initiatives being proposed by governors, including efforts to expand health insurance coverage, address the affordability of health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, tackle social determinants of health, increase access to behavioral health services, and more.
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June 12, 2019 • Seattle, WashingtonPlease join GIH for the 2019 annual conference in Seattle
Recent Podcasts
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Recorded: June 23, 2017 -
Recorded: October 4, 2016
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Recorded: May 2, 2016
Earlier podcasts
Most Recent Publications
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Cone Health Foundation is Taking the Long View: Public Policy Advocacy
August 15, 2018
Susan Fitzgibbon Shumaker, RN, MHA, FACHE, Cone Health Foundation
Sandra Welch Boren, MPA, Cone Health Foundation -
Small New Hampshire Foundation Steps Up to Spark State Health Coverage Opportunities
August 15, 2018
Patti Baum, HNH Foundation -
Riding Wild Horses: Philanthropic Strategy in An Era of Unpredictable Health Policy
July 13, 2018
Aaron Wernham, MD, MS, Montana Healthcare Foundation
