Health Policy Steering Committee
About the Committee
All matters pertaining to public health and healthy communities, including disease and injury prevention and health promotion, health disparities reduction, mental and behavioral health services, and financing delivering health care.
Policy Platform & Resolutions 2024-2025
County governments are integral to America’s current health care system and will be crucial partners in
achieving any successful reform.
Resource
Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP) Advocacy Toolkit
Featured Initiative
NACo Commission on Mental Health and Wellbeing
(2023-2024) Counties increasingly handle direct mental health services, acting as the safety net for vulnerable residents and operating crisis lines, hospitals and detention centers. NACo’s Commission on Mental Health and Wellbeing developed reports and united county leaders to address the mental health crisis through four key policy priorities.
Resource
From Crisis to Solutions: Policy Catalysts for Improved Outcomes
Health Policy Briefs
Medicaid and Counties: Understanding the Program and Why It Matters to Counties
Medicaid operates and is jointly financed as a partnership between federal, state and local governments.
Senate HELP and House Energy and Commerce pass PAHPA reauthorizations out of committee with amendments
Both the U.S. House Energy and Commerce and U.S. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) committees passed their versions of a Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) reauthorization bill
U.S. Surgeon General releases Advisory and National Strategy to Advance Social Connection
On May 2, the U.S. Surgeon General released an Advisory and National Strategy highlighting the growing number of individuals in the U.S. that are experiencing loneliness, isolation and disconnection
Bipartisan legislation introduced in House and Senate to address Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy
Bipartisan legislation has been reintroduced in both chambers of Congress that would amend the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy
Committee Chair
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Hon. Phyllis Randall
Committee Contact
Blaire Bryant
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