Last week, White House Office of Public Engagement Director and Senior Counselor to the President Steve Benjamin; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-Rashua; and Deputy Assistant to the President for Health and Veterans Affairs Kristen Linke Young. Mr. Convened a meeting with civil rights leaders and health care providers to discuss the Biden-Harris administration’s continued efforts to reduce health care costs and make health care affordable for all Americans rice field.
During the conference, Biden-Harris administration officials and key stakeholders will work with CMS, state, insurer, and local officials to ensure people stay connected to insurance as Medicaid rededication resumes. discussed how they work together. They also discussed the devastating impact on Medicaid of adding even more bureaucracy by imposing work reporting requirements, with almost one in four people covered by insurance in states that have tried similar policies. pointed out that the loss of
Officials of the Biden-Harris administration ended the meeting by promising to continue working with civil rights leaders and key stakeholders to protect comprehensive health care coverage for all Americans.
Conference participants included:
health insurance providers and health insurance societies
- Alliance of Community Health Plans
- health insurance plans in america
- AmeriHealth Caritas
- Regional Cooperation Planning Association
- blue cross blue shield of america
- Centene Co., Ltd.
- Signa Co., Ltd.
- CVS/Etna
- Elevance Health
- high mark
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente
- America’s Medicaid Care Plan
- Molina Healthcare
- Sentara Healthcare – Virginia Premier
- United Healthcare Group
civil rights organizations
- Civil Rights Lawyers Under the Law Board
- Leadership Conference on Citizenship and Human Rights.
- NAACP
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- nationwide action network
- National Coalition for Black Civic Engagement
- National Council of Black Women, Inc.
- National Urban League
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