Opportunity Starts At Home

Health insurance providers increasingly understand that good housing is good health. To more effectively address health conditions, insurance providers across the country are developing and implementing new ways to improve access to safe, decent, affordable housing for the people they serve. In this episode, we talk to Rhys Jones and Rashi Venkataraman with America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). AHIP is the largest advocacy organization representing health insurers nationwide. AHIP has about 1,300 member companies that sell health insurance to over 200 million Americans. Rhys Jones is the Vice President of Medicaid Policy and Advocacy and Rashi Venkataraman is the Executive Director of Prevention and Population Health. They discuss the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign, the importance of multi-sector collaboration, the many linkages between housing and health, and why health insurance providers are increasingly taking action on housing. They also discuss specific examples of how certain health in