{"id":166983,"date":"2014-12-16T00:49:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T05:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/health-care-challenge-more-coverage-often-means-higher-cost.php"},"modified":"2014-12-16T00:49:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T05:49:58","slug":"health-care-challenge-more-coverage-often-means-higher-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/health-care-challenge-more-coverage-often-means-higher-cost.php","title":{"rendered":"Health care challenge: More coverage often means higher cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>      Susan Kennedy is part of the five-member board overseeing      Californias health benefits exchange, called Covered      California. She was the keynote speaker at the Health Care      Conference on Nov. 18, 2014.    <\/p>\n<p>    SANTA ROSA  Californias new health-benefits exchange greatly    expanded coverage to millions of residents, but the costs of    doing so may be difficult to contain, an overseer of the    exchange said at the Business Journals Health Care Conference.  <\/p>\n<p>    The keynote speaker at the Nov. 18 conference was Susan    Kennedy, part of the five-member board for the exchange, called    Covered California, created after the 2010 Patient Protection    and Affordable Care Act, commonly called ACA or Obamacare.  <\/p>\n<p>    Ms. Kennedy has a reputation of getting things done. She was    appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the five-member    Health Benefits Exchange, the body charged with designing the    health insurance market for individuals and small businesses in    California as part of national health reform. She served as the    former chief of staff for then Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and    also in this capacity  and as cabinet secretary  for former    Gov. Gray Davis.  <\/p>\n<p>    Im not a health care expert, just a person interested in    policy formulation  which should scare you a lot, she said,    jokingly.  <\/p>\n<p>    In 1999, Ms. Kennedy helped lead efforts in the Gray Davis    administration to pass comprehensive health maintenance    organization (HMO) reform in California. She also helped lead    Gov. Schwarzeneggers historic health care reform initiative     which passed the Assembly in 2007 but stalled in the state    Senate.  <\/p>\n<p>    She was among several conference speakers who offered candid    views on reforms taking place in the industry, what HMOs are    doing to achieve compliance with the ACA, and how insurance    companies are handling the transformation. More than 200    attended the conference, held at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel    in Santa Rosa.  <\/p>\n<p>    Thanks to Covered California and Obamacare, some 3.5 million    more state residents are now insured, she said.  <\/p>\n<p>    What is my job on the exchange? she asked. We have a massive    new business to launch plus the policies that go with it.  <\/p>\n<p>    According to Ms. Kennedy, the U.S. has a more than 100-year    history of attempting to bring health care to everyone.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the article here: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northbaybusinessjournal.com\/103111\/health-care-challenge-more-coverage-often-means-higher-cost\" title=\"Health care challenge: More coverage often means higher cost\">Health care challenge: More coverage often means higher cost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Susan Kennedy is part of the five-member board overseeing Californias health benefits exchange, called Covered California. She was the keynote speaker at the Health Care Conference on Nov. 18, 2014.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/health-care-challenge-more-coverage-often-means-higher-cost.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}