she is one of two codirectors of the maximizing enrollment program along with her colleague catherine hess. alice has been working closely with these eight states over the course of this entire project and putting oscar is for the ports. what can you share about the lessons learned by the states and how those are influencing the sign-ups going on now under the affordable care at and may influence other states as well? >> thanks for the question. as you were saying susan the process of streamlining enrollment is not new to states. the aca hearkened an amazing transformation of systems but the process of trying to make and roman simpler has been going on the stage iv a number of years. we are excited as part of his work with maximizing enrollment and i can't go further without acknowledging the work of my colleagues catherine hess and the deputy director of the program. and the support from the foundation the robert wood johnson foundation for all of its work. what we learned in maximizing enrollment and reporting out is that states have been able to make tremendous strides forward. the focu