For our next 2nd Wednesday Speaker Series, Jane Beyer from the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) presents "How Washington State is Putting the Affordable into Affordable Health Care". 

To address rising health care costs which have created a persistent and growing challenge for the people and the businesses across our state, the Washington State Legislature directed the OIC and the Office of the Attorney General (AGO) to analyze policy approaches to improve health care affordability. This led to the OIC’s August 2024 Final Report on Health Care Affordability. 

Our guest speaker will break down the approach, the new study, and the final recommendation with the five policy options that could improve health care affordability for all Washingtonians!

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Jane Beyer, J.D, has served as Senior Health Policy Advisor to Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler since January 2017. She currently serves on two key work groups in Washington – the Universal Health Care Commission and the Health Care Cost Transparency Board. She was legal counsel to the Washington State House of Representatives for twenty years, working on a broad range of health and human services issues. Jane served as Washington State's Medicaid director from 1995 to 1998, and Washington State's Behavioral Health Commissioner from 2012 to 2015. She began her career as a legal services attorney in Tacoma Washington, graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law and was admitted to the Washington State and District of Columbia bar.