"CHAT raises important questions for anyone working in health policy."
-Kate McGarvey, Health Consumer Alliance Director
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CHCD facilitates interactive group sessions with healthcare, business and community leaders, challenging them to address one of the toughest questions in health policy:
What is the minimum healthcare coverage that everyone should have?
In these sessions CHCD uses a computer-based tool called CHAT (see description below). Available for Board meetings, retreats, conferences and training programs.
To learn more contact CHCD.
What others are saying:
National Society of Actuaries
State Coverage Initiatives |
Among groups led by CHCD:
California:
- Community Health Alliance of Humboldt-Del Norte
- Fresno Healthy Communities Access Partners
- San Mateo County's Health Care Model Workgroup
- Leadership Sacramento of the Chamber of Commerce
- Assembly, Senate and Executive Fellows programs
- Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board Staff
- California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, Board of Directors
- CaliforniaKids (LA) Board of Directors
- Sutter Health Sacramento regional Board of Directors
- Woodland Healthcare Board of Directors
- Department of Managed Health Care Staff
- ABD Insurance & Financial Services
- Sierra College Faculty
- UCSF Medical Residents
- CSUS Graduate Medical Social Worker Class
Other states and national:
- Social Security Advisory Board
- State Coverage Initiatives Program, workshop for state officials
- Society of Actuaries conferences (Los Angeles, Toronto)
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policy Fellows
- Department of Insurance, Columbus, Ohio
- American Leadership Forum, Houston, Texas
- Department of Insurance, Helena, Montana
- Department of Insurance, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Department of Insurance, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 The CHAT® tool
CHAT is a computer simulation game developed by physician ethicists at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Michigan, whereby participants are faced with making decisions about health benefits packages when there are more choices than resources.
This stimulating and educational process takes place in a 2-hour discussion group where participants design a health coverage package, individually and as a group. The CHAT game is conducted using individual computers combined with group discussion that involves negotiation, compromise and consensus-building.
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