Roosevelt Institute Health Care Forum

This morning fellow FM blogger Karlo is at the Roosevelt Institute Health Care Forum and wanted to do a liveblog of the event. Instead the wifi is a bit spotty so he is live tweeting it from his phone.

Feel free to watch via his twitter account but here are some of his tweets below. I will try to update as they develop.

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• LA: people need to keep up the momentum, urge you reps to hold town hall meetings with their constituents.
• LA: its too early to say what the minimum benefits pricing model will be.
• LA: we are reaching out to all communities. If people want to talk with us, we meet with them. This process is open and transparent.
• LA: massachusetts shows that penalties, even low ones, work. . . They are at 90% coverage.
• LA: coordinating care, such as having doctors know what tests and medications you have had, leads to better quality care and lowers costs.
• LA: check out healthreform.gov and tell us your ideas/stories.
• LA: Process-wise, the first challenge was getting health care in the budget. now that the budget has passed, This is an enormous victory.
• LA: we have a shortage of primary care physicians and nurses.
• LA: privacy is a big issue. We will be hiring a privacy officer at HHS
• LA and the audience are going off on electronic medical records and heath information technology in general.
• LA: the stimulus provided 90 billion in Medicaid money to the states, because of state budget shortfalls.
• LA: obama sees health care reform as a moral and financial imperative. Health costs are rising and eating up GDP
• LA: changing the system to incentivize quality care
• LA: three prongs to health care reform: cost, choice, and quality care. This is our time, we waited 15 years.
• LA: health care reform is the top domestic priority for this year.
• Keynote is here!
• Advocates for youth and campus progress folks are in attendance!
• Advocates for youth and campus progress folks are in attendance!less than
• @caitlinhowarth is leading a great summit. Very excited for lauren aronson's keynote speech!less than a minute ago
• break soon, then keynote speaker lauren aronson, policy director for the white house office for healthcare reform =)
• roosevelt Students giving presentations now. They are energized and have great ideas about how to mobilize their campuses!
• MG: PHIP is the only way to control costs, ensure quality, + force private insurance companies 2 finally put our health b4 their profits
• MG: polling shows that nearly 3 out of 4 voters want a public health insurance option. 'this plan is built on choice'
• Melinda gibson, health care 4 america now, presents. 'this is the moment' 'this is different', in regards to public health insurance plan
• JU: young voters need to hear that this is a pocket book issue. . . It concerns all of us.
• JU: . . . But young voters feel a stronger sense of urgency to change the system than voters overall
• JU: young voters are more worried than voters overall about changes in health care reform. . .
• JU: how to talk to young voters about health reform- personal dialogue works best, more likely to worry about their family and self.
• JU: young voters choose 'rising health care costs' as the number 2 issue. Women more concerned than men.
• JU: poll finding: 'health care is a much more salient concern for young voters than people might have thought.'about
• JU: under 30s view the debate thru a cost prism. . .a lot of anger at health insurance companies overall, but less among younger ppl
• Joshua Ulibarri, lake research partners, discusses keys to engaging young americans in the health care debate.
• SB: our country has a low use of medical records when compared to other nations.
• SB: very few americans pay no out of pocket costs, while many pay over 1000 or more (a lot when compared to other nations)
• SB: it is hard to get a same day appointment and takes long to schedule one when compared to other developed nations.
• SB: even for people with insurance, 1 in 4 is having problems saying medical bills. 1 in 2 among those without health insurance.
• SB: other democratic nations developed a mechanism for insuring everyone, but not us
• SB: our health care system 'costs are 25% or greater than those of any other wealthy democratic nation.'
• SB: ' more than 100 millions persons uninsured, underinsured, or unable to pay their medical bills.'
• Sara rosenbaum - dir of GWU health policy department. Presents public health stats and wonky jokes
• robert nelb welcomes summit attendees. 'create advocacy campaigns around graduation, a time when students lose their health insurance.'
• Check that - Rx Summit
• Just arrived at the marvin center for the roosevelt institution health forum.