Healthcare Reform Study Highlights Benefits, Challenges
A new report released by the Collins Center for Public Policy looks beyond the pitched battles over health care reform and instead offers a comprehensive review of the new federal law and its potential impact on Florida.
Recent court rulings clouded the Affordable Care Act's future. But for now it remains federal law, and its main features could be in place in 2014. The report, "Making the Investments Work: Important Benefits and Key Challenges in Implementing Health Reform in Florida," examines the how the law would affect Floridians and business large and small, and how the state and health care industry should prepare for its possible implementation. More coverage here.
QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTHCARE?
Dr. Leda Perez
lperez@collinscenter.org
We seek to position the Collins Center -- in Florida and the nation -- as a sought-after source of reliable information and analyses regarding promising practices and policies that improve access to timely and quality healthcare for all. In these efforts, there is the opportunity to redefine how Florida thinks about health and investments that are necessary to achieve community well-being.
Goal: The goal of Health Initiatives is to highlight both evidence-based best practices and disentangle policy choices around health investments and healthcare access. A corollary goal is to help contribute to understanding of the issues so that the public can effectively engage in the debates and contribute to the decision-making.
Community Health Workers
Raising awareness about the value of community health workers as critical community-based paraprofessionals who can connect people to health care and other social services.
Collins Center has developed a basic, Level I training in community health work. Collins Center has also developed, in partnership with Miami-Dade College (www.mdc.edu), a nine college credit Level II curriculum based on the Florida Family Development Credential developed Redlands Christian Migrant Association. For more information on how to organize and/purchase Level I or Level II training, please contact: lperez@collinscenter.org
Transparency
Raising awareness and discussion about the decisions and practices in spending in the state of Florida and the impacts of the same on health.
With Florida's receipt of the federal American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) stimulus dollars, the Collins Center is using Web 2.0 technology to democratize data and facilitate public participation the decisions surrounding ARRA/stimulus spending in the State of Florida.Through this virtual space Collins is providing the platform from which to discuss these decisions and provide analysis based on expert recommendations from both the community and academia.
