The document discusses advocacy efforts for Medicaid expansion in South Carolina, including messaging around the importance of expanded access to care and treatment for people living with HIV, ongoing discussions in the state around essential health benefits and benchmark plans, and next steps advocates can take like meeting with stakeholders, elected officials, and participating in coalitions and sign-on letters.
We have one more chance to influence budget policies in the House of Representatives before it moves to the Senate.
Join us Friday morning for updates and an opportunity to advocate.
The purpose of the webinar is to learn more about the value of the Medicaid expansion and how it could impact Ohio. We will also share resources to help you talk about the issue in your community.
The legislature and the administration will be revisiting portions of the approved two-year state budget this spring.
This “mid-biennium” budget review is sure to mean policy changes that affect health, human services, and early care & education in Ohio.
The pending Healthy Ohio 1115 Medicaid waiver would require nearly all non-disabled adults on Ohio Medicaid to pay premiums. If approved by the federal government, the waiver would result in a greater number of uninsured Ohioans as well as increased Medicaid administrative costs and complexity.
Speakers include:
* Tara Britton, Public Policy Fellow, The Center for Community Solutions
* Nita Carter, Project Director, UHCAN Ohio
We have one more chance to influence budget policies in the House of Representatives before it moves to the Senate.
Join us Friday morning for updates and an opportunity to advocate.
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The legislature and the administration will be revisiting portions of the approved two-year state budget this spring.
This “mid-biennium” budget review is sure to mean policy changes that affect health, human services, and early care & education in Ohio.
The pending Healthy Ohio 1115 Medicaid waiver would require nearly all non-disabled adults on Ohio Medicaid to pay premiums. If approved by the federal government, the waiver would result in a greater number of uninsured Ohioans as well as increased Medicaid administrative costs and complexity.
Speakers include:
* Tara Britton, Public Policy Fellow, The Center for Community Solutions
* Nita Carter, Project Director, UHCAN Ohio
Learn more about the budget and policy changes in HB 483 and find out ways to take action. With the legislative break coming up, this presentation includes resources to help you have conversations with your state lawmakers while they are back in your district.
The discussion focused on how supporters in Ohio can communicate with conference committee members to strengthen families and communities in the final process of Ohio's 2014-15 budget.
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The state budget bill includes funding and policy decisions that impact all areas of health and human services, including health care and behavioral health. Big changes are proposed for programs that deliver health care to Ohioans.
Join us for a webinar about opportunities and challenges in the state budget with a highlight on behavioral health care and Medicaid.
Speakers include:
*Col Owens, Co-chair of Advocates for Ohio's Future and Senior Attorney for Legal Aid of Southwest Ohio
*Cathy Levine, Executive Director
Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio (UHCAN Ohio)
*Teresa Lampl, Associate Director, Ohio Council of Behavioral Health and Family Service Providers
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Speakers include:
* Bill Sundermeyer, State Director, Advocates for Ohio's Future
* Col Owens, Senior Attorney, Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio
* Mark Davis, President, Ohio Provider Resource Association
We know that one of the biggest factors that move Ohioans up and out of poverty is a job, but a job doesn’t always mean a living. Ohio’s public policies have the potential to create good jobs, increase opportunity for all Ohioans, and make Ohio’s economy stronger.
Speakers discussed how state policy decisions and budget proposals can potentially influence Ohio’s employment and direct care workforce. They covered programs in place to support working Ohioans – including person-centered work programs, the direct care workforce, and work supports – and how you can advocate for working Ohioans in the Senate.
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* Joel Potts, Executive Director, Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association
* Beth Kowalczyk, Chief Policy Officer, Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging
* Wendy Patton, Senior Project Director, Policy Matters Ohio
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Speakers include:
- Loren Anthes, Public Policy Fellow, Medicaid Policy Center, The Center for Community Solutions
- Wendy Patton, Senior Project Director, Policy Matters Ohio
- Brandi Slaughter, Chief Executive Officer, Voices for Ohio’s Children
Big changes are coming for Ohioans who are 60+ and Ohioans with disabilities. The Ohio Department of Medicaid has announced changes to streamline the Medicaid program by eliminating spend-down after August 2016. The changes will bring a greater number of people into Medicaid but will also result in some people losing their benefits. The transition is complex, continues to evolve, and holds severe repercussions for many Ohioans’ health care coverage.
Speakers include:
-Jeanne Carroll, Assistant Director, Ohio Jobs and Family Services Directors' Association
-Beth Kowalczyk, Chief Policy Officer, Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging
-Teresa Lampl, Associate Director, The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health and Family Services Providers
-Steve Wagner, Executive Director, Universal Health Care Action Network
-Zach Reat, Director of Work Support Initiatives
Learn more about what is at stake in the “Super Committee” and the federal deficit-reduction deal for children, families, seniors and people with disabilities in Ohio. Leading statewide advocates will discuss how we work to maintain vital programs, such as SNAP, Medicaid, and Medicare.
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You’ll hear from:
* Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, Executive Director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks
Luke Russell, Associate State Director for Advocacy, AARP Ohio
Cathy Levine, Executive Director of UHCAN Ohio and Co-Chair of Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage
Deborah Nebel, Director of Public Policy, Linking Employment, Ability, and Potential
Wendy Patton, Senior Associate with Policy Matters Ohio
Will Petrik, Outreach Director with Advocates for Ohio’s Future
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Learn more about the budget and policy changes in HB 483 and find out ways to take action. With the legislative break coming up, this presentation includes resources to help you have conversations with your state lawmakers while they are back in your district.
The discussion focused on how supporters in Ohio can communicate with conference committee members to strengthen families and communities in the final process of Ohio's 2014-15 budget.
Advocates focused on early learning, long term care, developmental disabilities, and food assistance. Speakers also talked about a possible pathway to expand healthcare coverage to Ohioans through two new Medicaid reform bills in the House and the Senate.
The state budget bill includes funding and policy decisions that impact all areas of health and human services, including health care and behavioral health. Big changes are proposed for programs that deliver health care to Ohioans.
Join us for a webinar about opportunities and challenges in the state budget with a highlight on behavioral health care and Medicaid.
Speakers include:
*Col Owens, Co-chair of Advocates for Ohio's Future and Senior Attorney for Legal Aid of Southwest Ohio
*Cathy Levine, Executive Director
Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio (UHCAN Ohio)
*Teresa Lampl, Associate Director, Ohio Council of Behavioral Health and Family Service Providers
Over the last several months AOF and our partners have been focusing on helping Ohioans be safe in their homes, afford the basics and find good jobs that stabilize families in the state budget. Now, the budget has moved into the last step of the process -- Conference Committee. Speakers explain what's happened with health and human services programs over the course of the budget process.
Speakers include:
* Bill Sundermeyer, State Director, Advocates for Ohio's Future
* Col Owens, Senior Attorney, Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio
* Mark Davis, President, Ohio Provider Resource Association
We know that one of the biggest factors that move Ohioans up and out of poverty is a job, but a job doesn’t always mean a living. Ohio’s public policies have the potential to create good jobs, increase opportunity for all Ohioans, and make Ohio’s economy stronger.
Speakers discussed how state policy decisions and budget proposals can potentially influence Ohio’s employment and direct care workforce. They covered programs in place to support working Ohioans – including person-centered work programs, the direct care workforce, and work supports – and how you can advocate for working Ohioans in the Senate.
Speakers included:
* Joel Potts, Executive Director, Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association
* Beth Kowalczyk, Chief Policy Officer, Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging
* Wendy Patton, Senior Project Director, Policy Matters Ohio
Since its expansion in 2014, Ohio’s Medicaid program has played a critical role in cutting the number of uninsured Ohioans almost in half. With talk of repealing the Affordable Care Act at the federal level, what are the implications on Ohio’s budget process?
Speakers include:
- Loren Anthes, Public Policy Fellow, Medicaid Policy Center, The Center for Community Solutions
- Wendy Patton, Senior Project Director, Policy Matters Ohio
- Brandi Slaughter, Chief Executive Officer, Voices for Ohio’s Children
Big changes are coming for Ohioans who are 60+ and Ohioans with disabilities. The Ohio Department of Medicaid has announced changes to streamline the Medicaid program by eliminating spend-down after August 2016. The changes will bring a greater number of people into Medicaid but will also result in some people losing their benefits. The transition is complex, continues to evolve, and holds severe repercussions for many Ohioans’ health care coverage.
Speakers include:
-Jeanne Carroll, Assistant Director, Ohio Jobs and Family Services Directors' Association
-Beth Kowalczyk, Chief Policy Officer, Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging
-Teresa Lampl, Associate Director, The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health and Family Services Providers
-Steve Wagner, Executive Director, Universal Health Care Action Network
-Zach Reat, Director of Work Support Initiatives
Learn more about what is at stake in the “Super Committee” and the federal deficit-reduction deal for children, families, seniors and people with disabilities in Ohio. Leading statewide advocates will discuss how we work to maintain vital programs, such as SNAP, Medicaid, and Medicare.
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You’ll hear from:
* Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, Executive Director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks
Luke Russell, Associate State Director for Advocacy, AARP Ohio
Cathy Levine, Executive Director of UHCAN Ohio and Co-Chair of Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage
Deborah Nebel, Director of Public Policy, Linking Employment, Ability, and Potential
Wendy Patton, Senior Associate with Policy Matters Ohio
Will Petrik, Outreach Director with Advocates for Ohio’s Future
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Harvard's Robert Greenwald on Texas MedicaidOneVoiceTexas
Robert Greenwald, JD, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School, presented an in-depth analysis forum of the federal health reform Affordable Care Act and associated transformation of the Texas Medicaid system. On January 24 in Austin, he spoke to sever audiences on the challenges and opportunities specific to Texas including why the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is so important to the provision of cost- effective, high quality care and treatment to low income uninsured Texans.
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2. Agenda
• Why is Medicaid
expansion important for
people living with HIV?
• Essential Health
Benefits
• What’s happening now?
• Messaging
• Mapping Out Next
Steps
3. Why Medicaid Expansion is Critical
Expanded Medicaid
eligibility in 2014 will
result in greater access
to care for people
living with HIV.
5. Why Medicaid Expansion is
Critical
• Offers the greatest
promise to ending the
United States HIV/AIDS
epidemic.
• Wider and more reliable
access to HIV treatment
and care through
Medicaid expansion
• Will reduce health
disparities and new
infections.
6. REMEMBER!!!!
By expanding health coverage to
tens of thousands of HIV
positive individuals who are
uninsured or under insured, the
ACA can have an important
impact on treatment as
prevention. Focus on Medicaid
expansion and on Essential Health
Benefits will be important.
7. Also, remember…
Medicaid expansion will help
more HIV-positive Americans
receive a diagnosis and will help
ensure linkage to care, access
to drugs, and help in effectively
managing adherence to
maintain their own health and
that of their partners.
8. Essential Health Benefits
• Essential health benefits
must include coverage of
services and items in all
10 statutory categories.
• The health law lists 10
broad categories of
essential benefits,
including preventive care,
emergency services,
maternity care, hospital
and doctors’ services, and
prescription drugs.
9. Essential Health Benefits
• Prescription drugs
• Mental health and substance use disorder
services
• Hospitalization
• Maternity and newborn care
• Emergency services
• Ambulatory patients services
• Rehabilitative and habilitative services
• Laboratory services
• Preventive and wellness services and
chronic disease management
• Pediatric services, including oral and
vision care
10. Essential Health Benefits
States have latitude
within those
categories.
The minimum
benefits available to
consumers in
California will be
different from those
for people in New
York, for example.
11. South Carolina
• Over 15,000 South Carolinians are living with
HIV/AIDS,
• 43% of those who know their status are not in
treatment.
• Expanding Medicaid would significantly
alleviate the state’s HIV epidemic.
• If South Carolina does not expand Medicaid,
hospitals will face severe deficits and be forced to
close or pass costs onto consumers of private
health insurance, inflating premiums.
• Federal dollars will pay for 90-100% of the cost of
covering newly eligibles across the nation,
making South Carolina one of the biggest
potential beneficiaries of the funds associated
with the expansion (nearly 20% of South
Carolinians are uninsured).
• Increased federal funding contributes to the
economy – creating jobs and spurring consumer
spending.
12. Also…
• Moreover, if South Carolina does not
expand Medicaid, South Carolinians
will ultimately subsidize the cost of
coverage in states that do, via federal
taxation.
• Net Savings – South Carolina’s
spending on newly eligibles will be
offset by the savings realized in
reduced spending on uncompensated
care.
• In the first five years of expanding
Medicaid, South Carolina would
realize net savings of $678 million.
13. What’s happening now in SC…
• The Department of Insurance is accepting comments regarding the
selection of a South Carolina essential health benefits (EHB)
benchmark plan for health insurance coverage under the federal
Affordable Care Act by September 25 according to South Carolina
Healthcare Voices and the South Carolina Department of Insurance
Site.
• There was a September 25th hearing that was rescheduled but did
not include a date.
• As of October 10th , according to
http://www.statereforum.org/state-progress-on-essential-
health-benefits a working group on Essential Health Care
Benefits was formed but no benchmark plan was recommended.
14. What’s happening now, cont…
To facilitate an effective state-
level implementation, the South
Carolina Institute of Medicine
and Public Health and South
Carolina Healthcare Voices, is
convening stakeholders from the
non-profit sector and state
agencies to explore the various
state-specific elements of the
legislation and examine possible
approaches to implementation.
15. What’s happening now, cont…
This initiative will include
the creation of open, non-
discriminatory, educational
workgroups to help the state
prepare for and implement
health reform. By bringing
diverse stakeholders around
the table we will develop a
plan that is best for the state
16. What’s happening now, cont…
This effort, with honorary co-
chairs Doug Bryant, a former
Commissioner of the SC
Department of Health and
Environmental Control, and
Robby Kerr, a former Director of
the SC Department of Health
and Human Services, will focus
on building linkages with key
state agencies to provide a
neutral forum for collaborative
decision-making and expand the
collective public capacity to
address the implementation of
this legislation.
17. In short, the goal of this
initiative is to create a
public-private
collaborative so that South
Carolina can most
successfully implement
health care reform and take
advantage of the funding
opportunities that are
available to our state.
18. Advocacy next steps
• How do you identify
which coalitions to be
apart of?
• Which coalitions should
you join?
• How do you identify
stakeholders,
champions, and
grasstops?
• Where are decisions
being made, and how do
you get a seat at those
tables?
19. Advocacy next steps, cont…
- Setting up meetings
with elected
representatives
- Sign-on Letters
- Meet with agency
directors
- Voter
mobilization!!!!!
20. Messaging, pt 1
You are meeting with a
South Carolina State
Legislator about
ACA expansion. You
have 10 minutes to
make your case.
Take 5 minutes to
develop three
speaking points. Use
materials if you
need.
21. Messaging, pt 2
Break off in small groups, and take the
next 15 minutes practicing your
talking points.
22. Messaging, pt 3
What talking points can
we use to take to elected
officials and key decision
makers?
23. Lets create a plan!!!!!!
What needs to
happen in the
next 90 days?
-sign-on letters
-meetings with
representatives
- State lobby days
24. Examples of talking points
• Before health care reform…
– health insurance companies could legally
discriminate against me
– I had to be disabled by AIDS before I could get the
care that would prevent me from progressing to
AIDS
•
25. Educate Yourself
• Get the facts on health care reform and what it means for
people living with HIV
• Take advantage of available resources
– HIV Health Reform www.HIVHealthReform.org
– Families USA www.FamiliesUSA.org
– Community Catalyst www.CommunityCatalyst.org
– Treatment Access Expansion Project www.TAEP-USA.org
– AIDS United www.AIDSUnited.org
– White House www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform
• Factsheets/Talking points
• Webinars
• Policy Updates
Editor's Notes
Eligibility is expanded to being income based Better health outcomes
From TAEP
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has been clear: she does not support the expansion and would not sign it into law. But Democrats and some moderate Republicans want to expand Medicaid – setting up what is sure to be one of the major fights of the legislative session that begins in January. Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/10/02/4306146/sc-has-6-billion-a-year-at-stake.html#storylink=cpy