Implementing Health Care Reform: Responding to the Challenge

With provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act set to take effect over the next four years, grantmakers and their grantees have been developing activities to address the early stages of health care reform implementation. To support philanthropy's response to this sweeping and unprecedented legislation, GIH has released Implementing Health Care Reform: Funders and Advocates Respond to the Challenge, a report based on over 40 interviews with national and state grantmakers and advocacy organizations about their initial work around implementation. Join this one-hour audioconference to hear the report's key findings and recommendations, and to learn about the current activities, future plans, thorniest challenges, and strategic advice of your grantmaking peers.

Health Reform Messages for the Small Business Community

In the coming weeks, Grantmakers In Health will be scheduling small group conference calls for funders who are interested in talking to each other about specific issues related to health reform. The first of these calls will take place tomorrow, on the topic of developing, coordinating, and disseminating messages on health reform for the small business community. The discussion will be led by Kate Gervais of the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut.

Health Reform: Messaging and Public Education

This GIH audioconference will explore public education and messaging efforts at the state and national levels. Susan Sherry of Community Catalyst will provide an overview of current efforts, as well as discuss the challenges inherent in developing, coordinating, and disseminating messages for the public.  Janet Davenport from Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut will share her foundation’s strategies to develop messages around health reform for various communities within the state. 

Implementing Health Reform's Prevention and Public Health Fund

This webinar will provide an overview of the Fund and discuss key implementation issues such as how funds may be allocated, types of programs and activities that may receive support, and evaluation plans. 

Health Reform Implementation: Ensuring Health Coverage for Low-Income Americans

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act significantly expands access to Medicaid and provides premium and cost-sharing subsidies for lower-income Americans to obtain coverage through health insurance exchanges. Ensuring successful implementation of these provisions is critical and will require collaboration across sectors and among multiple stakeholders within and outside the health care system.   Among the various efforts being undertaken to ensure that those eligible for coverage are enrolled is Enroll America, a new nonprofit organization under development by Families USA.  Questions about this project have come up on several recent GIH audioconferences.  California HealthCare Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided support for the development of a business plan for Enroll America.  

Sam Karp and Andy Hyman will open the audioconference by discussing the foundations’ interest in providing this initial support to the project. Ron Pollack will describe the structure and expectations for this new organization and will answer any questions from those participating on the call. There also will be time for a funders-only discussion after Mr. Pollack’s presentation.

Health Care Reform: What's in the Law and What's Philanthropy's Role as it is Implemented?

Now that health care reform has been signed into law, funders are eagerly trying to understand what’s in the law and its implications for their communities, their grantees, their states, and their own work. Len Nichols will explain the key provisions of the new law, the immediate and longer-term challenges in its implementation, and the pivotal roles foundations can play in educating the public, continued advocacy, and supporting state implementation efforts.

Kids' Access Funders Network: Health Reform

On this call of the Kids' Access Funders Network, Jocelyn Guyer of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families updated funders on the provisions of the health reform law that will have the most impact on children and families, Ed Walz of Spitfire Strategies discussed post-reform messages that funders and their grantees might use.