i turn to jennifer tolbert. thanks for you being here and look forward to your presentation, too. >> do i need to do introductions or -- >> why don't you go ahead and do that. >> thanks. welcome to everyone. and thanks to our panelists for participating in this briefing today and what i anticipate will be a great discussion and programs and the role that they played during the first open enrollment period and kind of throughout this first year. i am going to provide a very brief overview, just to make sure everyone in the room is oriented to these programs and the role that they play and the variety of programs that participated in this first year. so there were a variety of programs that provided a consumer assistance and outreach and public education during the first open enrollment period. you probably heard about the navigators. those were programs that were established by the a.c.a. and required to participate in all marketplaces. they provide outreach and public education. they help consumers apply for cov

i turn to jennifer tolbert. thanks for you being here and look forward to your presentation, too. >> do i need to do introductions or -- >> why don't you go ahead and do that. >> thanks. welcome to everyone. and thanks to our panelists for participating in this briefing today and what i anticipate will be a great discussion and programs and the role that they played during the first open enrollment period and kind of throughout this first year. i am going to provide a very brief overview, just to make sure everyone in the room is oriented to these programs and the role that they play and the variety of programs that participated in this first year. so there were a variety of programs that provided a consumer assistance and outreach and public education during the first open enrollment period. you probably heard about the navigateors. those were programs that were established by the a.c.a. and required to participate in all marketplaces. they provide outreach and public education. they help consumers apply for co

lot of the best and most relied on health policy analysis around and we are pleased to have jennifer tolbertts the state health reform project at the foundation and monitors the implementation of the affordable care act particularly the effort to set-up exchanges in each state and you will hear from her in a moment. i will take care of the logistics up front so we can move through the discussion with as little issues as possible. if you are treating note the hashtag sisters. there is a paper that tell you how to tap into the wi-fi on your table. there is a lot of important information in your pacts. background information on the topics, full speaker bio, one page material list that if you put on your computer screen you can click on. there is a video recording of this briefing available in a couple days followed by a transcript on our website and the kaiser foundation website. you will find at our website the speaker's slides and if you are watching on c-span you can punch up those slides and the rest of the background material that the folks in the room have in front of them at allhealth.or