Community Health Councils today has released its newest policy report Bridging the Health Divide: Designing the Navigator System in California.
The report details mire than a dozen recommendations for building a robust and consumer-friendly Navigator program in California. It was developed in partnership with the more than one hundred organizations that participate in the Community Health Councils’ Covering Kids & Families and Los Angeles Access to Health Coverage coalitions. Designing the Navigator System in California provides an overview of the enrollment demands the state will face in 2014.
The report explores effective strategies for ensuring that as many individuals and businesses as possible can successfully enroll into coverage. __The brief is being released just as the California Health Benefits Exchange Board has requested comments on its draft report Statewide Assisters Program Design Options and Recommendations for the California Health Benefits Marketplace.
Designing the Navigator System in California can help inform recommendations to the Board on the assisters’ program options. Comments to the Board are due by Thursday,. They may be submitted through the Stakeholder Input Form: Statewide Assisters Program on the Exchange Board website.__The Exchange Board has been meeting since April of last year to ensure California’s implementation of a Health Insurance Exchange by 2014. It is an independent public entity within state government that will help California’s consumers and small businesses shop for and buy competitive health insurance through the Exchange beginning in 2014. Exchange Board members are appointed by the Governor and the legislature and are subject to strict conflict-of-interest provisions. __For more information on Bridging the Health Divide: Designing the Navigator System in California or the California Health Benefits Exchange, contact CHC Policy Analyst Fatima Morales.
Ms. Galloway-Gilliam is executive director of the 20-year-old non-profit, community-based advocacy and policy organization Community Health Councils.
