Jacobs, Lawrence R.2021-01-272021-01-272012-03-13https://hdl.handle.net/11299/218159Welcome and Introduction ~ Professor Larry Jacobs State Laboratories Shaping Their Own Future Keynote and Conversation ~ Joel Ario, Managing Director, Manatt Health Solutions Reaction Panel ~ Commissioner Mike Rothman, Minnesota Department of Commerce Representative Thomas Huntley (DFL) Panels are moderated by Professor Larry Jacobs and Dave Hage, Star Tribune Please join us for the third forum in the series, Health Care Reform: How to Build on the MInnesota Model. The third forum will feature a conversation with Joel Ario about state progress implementing reform and will be followed by a reaction panel with Commissioner Mike Rothman, Rep. Steve Gottwalt and Rep. Thomas Huntley. Mr. Ario is a national expert on the implementation of health care reform, having worked as the Exchange Director in the Obama Administration and as Insurance Commissioner in Pennsylvania and Oregon. Ario, currently a consultant for a number of states with both Democratice and Republican Governors and the National Governors Association. For generations, Minnesota has championed true public-private solutions to challenges that affect our state's health care system. This approach, praised nationally as the "Minnesota Model", merges private sector innovation and strong public policy in order to make health care as efficient and effective as possible for the greatest number of people. In the spirit of this strong tradition of collaboration, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and the Humphrey School's Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota are convening a series of public forums on how best to implement health care reform at the state level. By fostering discussions among local policy makers, stakeholders, and citizens, these meetings will explore today's fiscal and demographic challenges and examine opportunities for ensuring Minnesota's legacy as a leader in individual and community health. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, a non-profit health company, is dedicated to engaging people from all communities and sharing ideas about how to create a healthy future for all Minnesotans. The Center for the Study of Politics and Governance develops practical, independent, and non-partisan solutions to pressing political and policy challenges. CSPG brings together three critical components of public governance today: objective high quality analysis, publicly visible forums, and civic engagement. Joel Ario is a managing director of Manatt Health Solutions (MHS), an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. He has 30 years of experience helping to shape and implement public policy in the healthcare industry, including more than a decade devoted to leading insurance reform efforts at the state and federal government levels. Joel provides strategic consulting and policy analysis to assist state governments, health plans and foundations in preparing for the broad implications of healthcare reform, with a particular emphasis on planning for and implementing statewide health insurance exchanges. Joel previously served as Director of the Office of Health Insurance Exchanges at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), where he led efforts to implement provisions of President Obama's healthcare reform initiative. Joel was the Administration's point person for standing up health insurance exchanges, a role that required engagement with key stakeholders to develop the regulatory framework for exchanges, including consumer standards, insurer accountability, transparency, state certification and state and federal partnership opportunities. Prior to his federal service, Joel was Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner from 2007 to 2010 in which he was charged with oversight of the state's $85 billion insurance industry. In this capacity he was the Administration's point person on reforming insurance and expanding competition, including securing the denial of a proposed merger of the state's two largest health insurers. From 2000 to 2007 he served as the Oregon Insurance Administrator, where he was responsible for oversight of the state's $16 billion insurance industry and management of a multifaceted regulatory program that included financial solvency monitoring, market conduct exams, product approval, rate review, consumer education and assistance and agent investigations. Additionally, Joel served on the executive committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for a decade, including being elected three times to serve as an NAIC officer, and he was President of the National Insurance Producer Registry for two years. He was also Executive Director of the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group for seven years.enStatePresentation