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This year The Council of State Governments will again convene its Summit of the States on Interstate Cooperation, to be held in conjunction with CSG’s national conference in Las Vegas. This one of a kind event, hosted by CSG's National Center for Interstate Compacts, is a singular forum dedicated exclusively to the interstate compact mechanism. The Summit brings together compact professionals, scholars, and officials from all three branches of state government to discuss issues surrounding interstate compacts. The Summit will provide participants with an opportunity to learn about the history and utility of interstate compacts, best practices for administering interstate compacts, legislative and judicial developments for compacts, federalism issues impacting compacts and will conclude with a panel that examines occupational licensure compacts.

Three speakers addressed ways states are both reacting to federal efforts and leading the charge to create sound health policy in the areas of Medicaid and health insurance as well as opioid treatment. The Committee approved two policy resolutions and released CSG's 50-state survey diabetes spending.

Part I of this SLC Special Series Report detailed many of the broader concerns that long-term care poses for Southern states, including challenging demographic shifts, deteriorating health status among key segments of the population and prohibitively high costs of various LTC services. Part II outlines the role that insurance plays in financing long-term care and reviews potential insurance-related solutions that could create more affordable care in the future for states and LTC recipients.