Capitol Connection: Public Health Policy Issues in the Balance

National Association of Medicaid Directors’ former executive director, Matt Salo, joins host Deanne Kasim and colleagues to discuss the latest congressional action on the infrastructure package, challenges of current budget reconciliations, and Medicaid expansion consideration. In addition, they explore critical state health and health tech topics including the growing data privacy and security policy efforts, state public option models, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, how Medicaid programs have addressed public health needs, and what’s next for telehealth policy in states.Learn More Follow Matt Salo, former executive director at National Association of Medicaid DirectorsFollow Deanne Kasim, VP of health policy at Change Healthcarechangehealthcare.com/government-affairsmedicaiddirectors.orgmedicaiddirectors.org/sub-focus-area/covid-resourceshttps://medicaiddirectors.org/https://medicaiddirectors.org/sub-focus-area/covid-resources/