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I am director of Medicaid and state policy analysis for the National Association of Children's Hospitals (N.A.C.H.) and have worked on children's health policy issues most of my career. I am also a mom to two energetic young boys--Owen, 7 and Carter, 3. (Aimee is an advocate for children through SpeakNowForKids.org)
Lest you think that I live, breathe and sleep health policy, this blog is on an entirely different topic. Several people have asked me what I did to celebrate the passage of health reform. To some it has seemed that we have not taken a breath between health ...
Read more...As you may have heard, the last week and a half has not been a picnic in the DC-area. We got hit with two successive major snow storms. For those of you who have ever lived in the DC-area, you know that this amount of snow results in everything coming to ...
Read more...It seems the blizzard of the century in DC that slowed metro, closed schools and churches had the opposite effect on the Senate. The morning of the blizzard I woke up to the news that the Senate had the votes to move the health reform bill to a final vote ...
Read more...This week my colleagues and I added up the pages of health reform legislation we have read. Can you tell we were trying to avoid focusing on the most recent 1,990 page bill released by the House of Representatives? The tally adds up to 53,148 pages of health reform ...
Read more...At the same time that Congress returned to D.C. and started volleying health reform back and forth, I started a month long regime to prepare for a tennis match with a colleague. I played competitive tennis in high school, but that was a long time ago. I am happy to ...
Read more...Like many children across the U.S., my oldest son is making the most of his last week of summer vacation before the start of a new school year. In between spending days at the beach building sand castles and boogie boarding, he’s getting mentally prepared for ...
Read more...Earlier this month, I spent my youngest son’s birthday at a local fire station. The entire party got a tour of the fire house, trucks and a demonstration of the fire poll. Seeing all of the resources and infrastructure that we have ready for emergencies ...
Read more...As the pace of health reform movement at the federal level slowed down over the past week, action in the states heated up. Since my job entails work on federal and state policy, this resulted in a pivot from a focus on ...
Read more...You know how you can plan your day to the smallest detail and still something can come up that will completely throw your entire day off. Just last week I dropped my sons off at preschool and camp and headed into work for what looked like a relatively quiet day ...
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