SHARE Events

Webinar
CO-OP Health Plans: Can They Help Fix Rural America's Health Insurance Markets?

October 19, 2011
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (EDT)

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Join us as Dr. Andrew Coburn, Research Professor at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service, discusses the Consumer-Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program authorized under the Affordable Care Act.  Dr. Coburn will discuss the CO-OP program legislation, identify the challenges to obtaining private health insurance in rural areas; and assess the opportunities and challenges of using the CO-OP program to address th elimitations of the rural private health insurance market.

Dr. Coburn will be joined by Bill Oemichen, President & CEO of the Cooperative  Network, which serves cooperatives in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  Mr. Oemichen was on the committee that wrote the recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding CO-OP Plan development.

SHARE is co-hosting this event with the Rural Assistance Center (RAC), a rural health and human services information portal funded through HRSA's Office of Rural Health Policy and located at the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health.  

For further information about this event, please contact Carrie Au-Yeung at butle180@umn.edu or 612-625-2492.

Conference Presentations
APPAM 2011 Fall Research Conference

November 3-5, 2011
Washington, D.C.

Conference details

Several SHARE grantees will be presenting:

John Czajka, Ph.D.
Implementing Expanded Medicaid Eligibility under the ACA: Perspetives from the States

Lara Shore-Sheppard, Ph.D.
Who Will be Insured after Reform? Simulating the Effects of the Affordable Care Act

Tom DeLeire, Ph.D.
The Target Efficience and Effectiveness of On-Line Medicaid/CHIP Enrollment: An Evaluation of Wisconsin's ACCESS Internet Portal