Please join us on March 29, 2013 for the Paralegal Studies Breakfast Briefing on the Affordable Care Act. The Health Care Reform Bill, or Affordable Care Act, was signed into law by President Obama in 2010. Many of the major elements of the law are scheduled to take effect in 2014. This bill contains changes that impact how individuals access, deliver, and pay for health care.
The briefing will provide an overview of the bill and will cover such topics as:
- Expansion of the Medicaid coverage
- Mandate to purchase insurance
- Effects of the Affordable Care Act on healthcare choices
- Health care diversity
AGENDA
8:30 am Breakfast/Networking
9:00 am Presentation
SPEAKERS
Jerrica Mathis is the Director of Public Health Policy at SOPHE. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Health Science at Georgia Southern University in 2004 and began working for the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) shortly thereafter. During her time at NACDD she participated in national and state palling efforts around chronic disease prevention and control. After completing an MSED program with a major in Health Promotion through Virginia Tech in December
2008 she became the lead staff role for the NACDD Health Equity Council (HEC) where she worked to accomplish their mission of addressing health inequities through changes in public health practice. In
September 2009, she was selected for the prestigious Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Louis Stokes Urban Health Policy fellowship and was able to further build expertise in health policy, health equity, and health disparity elimination. Jerrica is Project Director for the SOPHE’s cooperative agreement with CDC to educate state policymakers on chronic disease issues and provides staff leadership to SOPHE’s Advocacy and Resolutions Committees.
Jasmine Hicks is the State Outreach Coordinator at Young Invincibles (YI). She joined the YI team as the State Outreach coordinator where she works with organizations around the country to make sure young people’s concerns are being heard. Jasmine grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, where she worked for the last 3 years as the director of the Young Civic Leaders program at MassVOTE. She organized high school students around civic engagement, and issues of election reform. In 2010, Jasmine was selected to be an Emerging Leader with the Congressional Black Caucus where she interned in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Jasmine is a graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a concentration
in Policy Administration.