Taking it to the People: Engaging the Public in Health Reform Policy Development and Implementation
Held September 21, 2011
The sheer number and scale of the tasks to be accomplished under the ACA means the resources of each state’s people and institutions must be brought into the work. Successful public engagement will mean leveraging intellectual, social, financial, and infrastructural capital that can be brought to bear to achieve successful implementation that meets the needs of each state’s constituents.
This State Refor(u)m webinar, held September 21, 2011, tackled these issues. Presenters sized up state progress on engaging the public, and panelists from three states described their approaches to creating a meaningful dialogue with the public on Affordable Care Act implementation. The panel offered ideas for engaging stakeholders across a wide spectrum of ACA components.
Moderator:
Alan Weil, Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy
Speakers:Download the slides or watch the webinar recording below:
The sheer number and scale of the tasks to be accomplished under the ACA means the resources of each state’s people and institutions must be brought into the work. Successful public engagement will mean leveraging intellectual, social, financial, and infrastructural capital that can be brought to bear to achieve successful implementation that meets the needs of each state’s constituents.
This State Refor(u)m webinar, held September 21, 2011, tackled these issues. Presenters sized up state progress on engaging the public, and panelists from three states described their approaches to creating a meaningful dialogue with the public on Affordable Care Act implementation. The panel offered ideas for engaging stakeholders across a wide spectrum of ACA components.
Moderator:
Alan Weil, Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy
Speakers:
- Lorez Meinhold, Deputy Policy Director, Office of the Governor of Colorado
- Dan Meuse, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Lt. Governor of Rhode Island
- Joel Cantor, Professor and Director, Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University
Presenters Elizabeth Cronen and Rachel Dolan also highlighted many of the public engagement ideas posted on State Refor(u)m by its community of users. Has your state done engagement work that you don’t see represented here? Share your work if your state has, for example:
- Engaged a diverse set of stakeholders
- Conducted outreach to underserved communities
- Created mechanisms for obtaining consumer input
- Created a webpage to keep stakeholders informed
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– See more at: https://www.statereforum.org/webinars/engaging-the-public-in-health-reform-implementation#sthash.foqPAW3K.dpuf
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