we turn next to stan dorn who is a fellow at urban institute. what do we know about past experience in helping enrollment in college programs, not just what we learned about maximizing enrollment, but broadly speaking, past lessons that could be applicable now and help us understand the process of signing up people under the affordable care act. >> thanks. we know a fair bit. we know it takes time. i'll give you an example from the children's health insurance program, which is now phenomenally successful in reaping its target population. and medicaid will enroll almost nine or ten eligible children. almost nine in ten, which is the high water mark of american social policy in these state-administered programs. but it took time to reach that. in years past they talked about disappointment in local participation. it took five years before they managed to ramp up and meet steady state levels. so we know it's going to take time. and the reason it's going to take time is that the aca is a program shared by the states and federal government. that's a

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 rober