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.
Issue Spotlight
The California Health Care Foundation has compiled a select list of organizational statements and comments submitted to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by national health care and philanthropic organizations in opposition to the proposed changes to the public charge rule. DHS is accepting comments on the rule change through December 10, 2018, after which time the agency is required to review and respond to comments prior to finalizing the rule. So far, DHS has received over 132,000 comments on the proposed regulation.
A new Commonwealth Fund report by Leighton Ku and colleagues at George Washington University. According to experts on previous work programs for Medicaid and public assistance enrollees, the current crop of work demonstration programs is poorly designed and resourced, and unlikely to help many people find work or become healthier. None contribute much, if any, additional funding to train the unemployed or provide necessary social supports.
Upcoming Events
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June 12, 2019 • Seattle, WashingtonPlease join GIH for the 2019 annual conference in Seattle
Recent Podcasts
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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
