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Improving population health through policies that contain health care cost growth.
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The Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Cost held a webinar on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, about Making Health Care More Affordable: A Playbook for Implementing a State Cost Growth Target. The playbook is designed to help states build the infrastructure needed to contain spiraling health care spending growth.
This webinar featured January Angeles, Senior Consultant, Bailit Health, Cory King, Acting Health Insurance Commissioner, Rhode Island, and Yi-Shan Sung, Research Analyst, Oregon Health Authority. Milbank Memorial Fund’s Rachel Block moderated.
Watch the recording
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For more on how state health care cost commissions can advance affordability and equity, read this Center for American Progress report.