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This is an unedited transcript of this session. As such, it may contain omissions or errors due to sound quality or misinterpretation. For clarification or verification of any points in the transcript, please refer to the audio version posted at /cyberseminars/catalog-archive.cfm or contact Jennifer Haley, Urban Institute Health Policy Center, jhaley@; or Genevieve M. Kenney, Urban Institute Health Policy Center, jkenney@. Host: I’m Jean Yoon with the Health Economics Resource Center. And today we’re pleased to have health policy experts from The Urban Institute and VA policy leaders on this Cyber-Seminar to talk about an important and timely issue. We’ll be talking about potential eligibility and enrollment of Veterans and new insurance programs under the Affordable Care Act. As these new insurance options go into effect, many in the VA want to be able to understand how to continue meeting their demand for VA care and continue providing high quality care to Veterans. We hope that the information presented here can be helpful to VA operations and research in thinking about the potential implications of these new options. And because having good data will be important, HERC is also helping to set up an operations resource work group to look at impacts of ACA on VA demand. If this is something that you’re interested in, feel free to contact me for more details. Now I’m pleased to introduce Genevieve Kenney and Jennifer Haley from the Urban Institute. Jennifer Haley is a Research Associate in the Health Policy Center, and Genevieve Kenney is the Co-Director and Senior Fellow in the House Policy Center. They both are involved in research that looks at the implications of the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid coverage, and Family Planning Services in a state effort to enroll more children and adults in Medicaid and CHIP. We will later be joined by Duane Flemming who is Director of Policy Analysis and Forecasting, and DeAnn Farr, who is Director of Health Systems Data Anal