Task Force on Health Care Coverage

Task Force On Health Care Coverage For All of Maine
(S.P. 592, as amended)

 

Final Report of the Task Force on Health Care Coverage for All of Maine

Task Force Meeting Dates

• Monday, October 15, 2018 at 9:00 am
  Room 220, IFS Committee Room
  Cross Office Building, Augusta
  
• Meeting Materials

• Tuesday, October 2, 2018 from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm
  Room 220, IFS Committee Room
  Cross Office Building, Augusta

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Materials

Previous Study Group Meetings

To facilitate its work, the Task Force on Health Care Coverage has established small study groups. The following study group meetings have met:

• Wednesday, August 15th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am with Dr. Deb Richter. Dr. Richter is a physician and board member of Vermont Health Care for All. She will discuss universal health care efforts in Vermont.
  
  

• Wednesday, August 22nd from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm with Lyn Gullette, Co-Operate Colorado, and Ivan Miller, Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care. They will discuss universal health care efforts in Colorado.

• Wednesday, September 5th from 9:30 am to 11:30 am with John Colmers, Vice President, Health Care Transformation and Strategic Planning, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Mr. Colmers will discuss health policy efforts in Maryland, including global budgeting and rate setting.

• Wednesday, August 15^th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am with Dr. Deb Richter. Dr. Richter is a physician and board member of Vermont Health Care for All. She will discuss universal health care efforts in Vermont.

• Wednesday, August 22^nd from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm with Lyn Gullette, Co-Operate Colorado, and Ivan Miller, Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care. They will discuss universal health care efforts in Colorado.
  Wednesday, September 5^th from 9:30 am to 11:30 am with John Colmers, Vice President, Health Care Transformation and Strategic Planning, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Mr. Colmers will discuss health policy efforts in Maryland, including global budgeting and rate setting.

  The Public Options Study Group will meet by conference call on Wednesday, July 25^th from 12pm to 2pm. In order to provide public access to the meeting, staff will be facilitating the call from Room 220, IFS Committee Room, Cross State Office Building. Members of the public may attend the meeting or listen in through the Legislature’s audio website. 

• The Structure of the Health Insurance Market Study Group will meet on Tuesday, July 24th from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm in Room 220, IFS Committee Room.   In order to provide public access to the meeting, the meeting will be in the task force’s usual meeting room at the State House. Members of the public may attend the meeting or listen in through the Legislature’s audio website.  
  
  

Previous Task Force Meetings 

• Wednesday, September 12, 2018 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
  Room 220, Cross Office Building, Augusta
  • Meeting Materials
  • Controlling Costs Study Group Update
    
    
• Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Room 220, Cross Office Building in Augusta
  
• • Meeting Agenda
  • Meeting Materials
    
    
• Monday, April 2, 2018 at 1 p.m.
  Room 220, Cross Office Building in Augusta
  • Meeting Materials
  • Meeting Summary
    
    
• Friday, March 2, 2018 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  Room 220, Cross Office Building in Augusta
  
  
  • Meeting Materials
  • Public Comment
    
    
• Monday, January 22, 2018 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  Room 220, Cross Office Building in Augusta
  • Meeting Materials
  • Additional Meeting Materials
    
  • Public Testimony
    
   
• Wednesday, December 20, 2017 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Room 220, Cross Office Building in Augusta
  • Meeting Materials

 

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Additional Task Force Information

Task Force Members

Other related information:

Websites:

• National Conference for State Legislatures Health Topics   http://www.ncsl.org/research/health.aspx
• Kaiser Family Foundation https://www.kff.org/
• State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) http://statehealthcompare.shadac.org/
• National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) https://nashp.org/
• The Heritage Foundation Health Care Reform page https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reformHeritage

  Articles of interest:

• https://khn.org/news/looking-north-can-a-single-payer-health-system-work-in-the-u-s/
  
  
• https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/14/16773294/obamacare-aca-states-protect-coverage-after-tax-bill
  
  
• https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180117.926755/full/  
  
  
• http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2018/jan/association-health-plans-state-authority?omnicid=EALERT1347044&mid=bleonard@mehaf.org
  
  
• http://www.khi.org/assets/uploads/news/14802/statemarketplacestrategies.pdf?utm_source=SHADAC%2FSHARE+Email+List&utm_campaign=2e5a3bd257-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4a197eb825-2e5a3bd257-304406109
  
  
• https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/reports/2016/04/11/134859/state-options-to-control-health-care-costs-and-improve-quality/
  
  
• https://www.wacommunitycheckup.org/media/47156/2018-first-do-no-harm.pdf
  
  
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/upshot/preventive-health-care-costs.html

• http://www.healthcostinstitute.org/report/2016-health-care-cost-utilization-report/

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vi3S2pjThLFVwB7OtYwFmOiLVPTFl_wk/view

• http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2017/12/18/congress-wont-act-now-community-health-centers-weigh-closures

 

 Task Force Staff:

Colleen McCarthy Reid, Legislative Analyst, OPLA

Erin Lundberg, Legislative Analyst, OPLA

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