In 2003, Maine adopted the Dirigo Health Reform Act, with the aim of making affordable health care coverage available to every Maine resident by 2009, slowing growth in health care costs, and improving the quality of care. Review the presentations, available at right, from a February 1, 2008 online seminar sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund's State Innovations Program and Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Presenters: Jim Verdier, J.D., and Debra Lipson, M.H.S.A., Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Discussants: Trish Riley, Maine's Governor's Office of Health Policy; Karynlee Harrington, Dirigo Health Agency; and Enrique Martinez-Vidal, M.P.P., State Coverage Initiatives
Moderator: Rachel Nuzum, M.P.H., The Commonwealth Fund
