Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis has an extensive background in health insurance coverage
and financing issues. As President of IHPS, an independent not-for-profit
organization he founded in April 1992, he develops policy approaches
and assists program design for coverage initiatives at the state,
national and local levels. A key focus is development of complementary
public and private financing roles to cover uninsured workers and
families. (Premium assistance is one example.) Recent roles with
other organizations include: expert consultant on coverage of the
uninsured with the Institute of Medicine Committee on Rapid Advance
Demonstration Projects; and participant as one of 50 health "leaders"
participating in the Health Sector Assembly. He has met with executives
in a number of states over the past several years as an expert consultant
on coverage of the uninsured on behalf of the National Governors'
Association Center for Best Practices. Presentations to other key
state leaders and legislators regarding coverage strategies in the
past year include forums in New York, Colorado, Florida, Washington
State and Wisconsin.
Previous positions Mr. Curtis has held include: Director of Health
Policy Studies, National Governors' Association (NGA); founding
Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy; and
Director of the Department of Policy Development and Research, Health
Insurance Association of America. He chaired a technical group on
state-federal roles for the White House's preliminary design of
healthcare reform (Spring 1993), participated as an expert on health
insurance market implications for the U.S. Senate majority (Republican)
retreat on health care reform, and served as (non-partisan) lead
expert witness for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee Hearing on
the role of Alliances and alternatives in health reform system.
While at HIAA, he convened a multi-sector coalition that successfully
advanced Medicaid eligibility for all poor children, and while at
NGA, he was a contributing editor to Business and Health magazine
and Director of the Project on the Medically Indigent for the Academy
for State and Local Government.
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