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Consumer Health Advocacy at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) aims to assist state regulators in advancing health, protecting insurance consumers, and achieving equity through oversight and regulation of health insurance and related products.
Consumer Health Advocacy at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) aims to assist state regulators in advancing health, protecting insurance consumers, and achieving equity through oversight and regulation of health insurance and related products.
Consumer Health Advocacy at the NAIC is carried out by independent Consumer Representatives who apply and are appointed by a governing board within the NAIC. Consumer Representatives represent diverse populations of consumers and bring an array of perspectives, lived experience, and subject matter expertise across a range of insurance access and regulation issues that span all lines of insurance. A number of Consumer Representatives specialize in health insurance regulation, and Consumer Representatives work collaboratively across areas of expertise and lines of insurance.
The NAIC works closely with Consumer Representatives to assist state regulators in regulators’ primary objective of protecting insurance consumers. The Consumer Representatives do not represent or work for the NAIC, and the views expressed here do not reflect the views of the NAIC. More information about consumer participation at the NAIC is available here.
Kellan Baker, Whitman Walker Institute
Stephani Becker, Shriver Center on Poverty Law
Ashley Blackburn, Health Care for All
Bonnie Burns, California Health Advocates
Jalisa Clark, Georgetown University Law Center
Laura Colbert, Georgians for a Healthy Future
Brenda Cude
Lucy Culp, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Deborah Darcy, American Kidney Fund
Shamus Durac, Rhode Island Parent Information Network
Eric Ellsworth, Consumers’ Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services
Joseph Feldman
Adam Fox, Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
Stephanie Hengst, The AIDS Institute
Marguerite Herman, Healthy Wyoming
Claire Heyison, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Kara Hinkley, The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association
Anna Schwamlein Howard, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
Anna Hyde, Arthritis Foundation
Janay Johnson, American Heart Association
Amy Killelea
Dorianne Mason, National Women’s Law Center
Erin Miller, Community Catalyst
Carl E. Schmid, II, HIV + Hepatitis Policy Institute
Jennifer Snow, National Alliance on Mental Illness
Deborah Steinberg, Legal Action Center
Christa Stevens, Autism Speaks
Harold Ting
Wayne Turner, National Health Law Program
Brent Walker, Coalition Against Insurance Fraud
Caitlin Westerson, United States of Care
Jackson Williams, Dialysis Patient Citizens
Sivlia Yee, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
For a full list of all consumer representatives to the NAIC (including those focused on other types of insurance), please click here.
Support for this website is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.