Mark your calendars for the next SHARE webinar, "CO-OP Health Plans: Can They Help Fix Rural America's Health Insurance Markets?" The event will take place on October 19, 2011, from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (EDT).
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.
For further information about this event, please contact Carrie Au-Yeung at butle180@umn.edu or 612-625-2492.