Next Meeting: TBA ____________________________________________________________________________
Previous featured speakers and their presentations are below:
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Guest Speakers:Eileen Hayes, Assistant Chief, NYS Insurance Department
Health Bureau Ilene Margolin, Senior Vice President, GHI an EmblemHealth
Company “New York’s
Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan”
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Guest Speaker: Robin Gelburd, President, Fair Health “Estimating Out-of-Network Costs in Advance: A New Web Portal for Consumers”
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Guest Speaker: Shelly Nortz, Timothy’s Law Coalition and Coalition for the Homeless “Mental Health Parity Review and Update”
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Speakers: Mark Scherzer, NYFAHC Legislative Counsel and Kim Calder, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Director of Insurance Initiatives “Federal Health Care Reform is LAW – What Happens in the First Year?” Agenda
November 17, 2009 Presentation: Reform of Long Term Care, Services, and Supports in Federal Health Reform view presentation here (HealthReform.LTSS October 27, 2009 Guest Speaker: "What can Health Care Reform do for People with Disabilities”? Barbara Kornblau, Dean and Professor of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies at the University of Michigan – Flint and American Association of People With Disabilities
Latest Landscape on Federal Health Care Reform and its Potential Impact on New York State”
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Guest Speaker - Rachel Shiffrin, Advocacy Coordinator, Medicare Rights Center (bio below) “Ending the Two Year Wait for Medicare for People with Disabilities”
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Guest Speaker - Troy Oeschner, Deputy Superintendent for Health NYS Insurance Department
November 19, 2008 Guest Speaker - Jeffrey S Crowley, Senior Research Scholar, Georgetown Health Policy Institute “New Possibilities for Federal Health Care Reform” Guest Speaker - Adam Thompson, Health Care Policy, Progressive States Network “What are the possibilities for State Health Care Reform?
