By Jocelyn Guyer

For a change of pace, I thought I would post a video blog entry.  No, my intent is not to see whether Jocelyn had a good hair day or not, it’s to see if a video can help jumpstart a dialogue better than written blog entries.  (We haven’t inspired many of you to comment in recent months and we’re not sure if that means you agree wholeheartedly and have nothing to add or whether we are just boring you.)  So, as an experiment, I decided to post this video to see if it will get readers to discuss important questions such as:

• Where are we with health coverage for kids today?

• What role have Medicaid and CHIP played in driving down the uninsured rate of children?

• What are some key lessons for health reform?

CCF Co-Director Jocelyn Guyer participated in an Alliance for Health Reform and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored briefing on the hill last month to address some of those questions.  Take it away Jocelyn … (double-click the video to begin watching)

I hope you’ll comment on the video even if it is just to say Jocelyn’s hair looked great. If you want to see the other panelists, UT CHIP Director Nate Checketts and Urban Institute’s Stan Dorn, please go to http://allhealth.org/briefing_detail.asp?bi=171