and rebecca mendoza of the department virginia department of services and alice weiss who is our ownurban institute, one of the country's leading experts on innovative enrollment and retention strategies in health care. to moderate the discussion and ensure it is a real conversation and not just dualing talking heads, we're excited to have susan denseler, who is previously served as both the editor in chief for health affairs very important influential magazine and health correspondent for our favorite news program, whatever our duty -- it's a wonderful institution and we're proud to have you here, susan. >> it is my honor to introduce before we get to the panel one last person which is lori epstein, a program officer at the foundation since 2001. and she leads their max enroll work and responsible for the foundation's largest programs covering kids and families. here at the urban institute we have a wonderful partnership and we're enormously grateful for their john going support of the health policy research and it's a delight to have you with us today. thank you. >> thank you, sara

our first speaker you heard introduced earlier as alice weiss of the national academy of the state policyshe is one of the two directors of the maximizing enrollment program. they have been working closely with these8 8 states. what can you share about those lessons learned and how that is influencing the finance going on that may affect people in other states? >> thank you for the question. the process of streamlining enrollment is not new to states. the aca will be a transformation of systems, but the process of trying to make enrollment simpler has been going on for a number of years. that is part of our work with maximizing enrollment. i cannot go further without acknowledging the work of my colleagues and the deputy director of the program. and thank you for the support of the foundation, the robert wood foundation for all of their work. what we've been reporting out is that states have been able to make some tremendous strides forward. we focused on three key areas that we saw. the first was, harnessing technologies to streamline the enrollment policies. the second was focusing on s

we will also hear from alice weiss who codirects the project and who is our own urban institute stan dorn one of the experts on innovative enrollment and retention strategies in health care. tomorrow to ensure that it is a real conversation and not just talking heads we are delighted to have with us susan dentzer who has previously served as the editor-in-chief for health affairs and a very important and influential magazine and the health correspondent for our favorite news program news hour read one of bart board members is judy woodruff and it's a wonderful institution we are proud to have you here. it's my honor to introduce before we get to the panel one less person which is lori grubstein. lorries a program officer at the foundation since 2001 and she leads their work and is responsible for the foundation's largest programs covering kids and families. here at do we have a wonderful partnership and we are enormously grateful for their ongoing support of our health policy research and laureates did like to have you with us tonight. thank you. >> thank you sarah. on behalf of the