Healthcare IT News Staff

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) questions CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf on healthcare reform in this video, posted in Wyden's YouTube channel.

Peter Harbage of the Center for American Progress discusses the need for health reform, who will benefit from it, and what's at stake if Congress drops the ball.

In this video, Glenn Hackbarth, chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, testifies at the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee's annual MedPAC hearing.

Gov. Jim Doyle (D-Wis.) discusses Wisconsin's initiatives in stem cell research in this video, posted to YouTube by user DemocraticGovernors.

This video, posted to YouTube by the SCHospitalAssoc, focuses on a variety of Medicaid recipients in South Carolina. According to SCHospitalAssoc, "...Few people really understand how the Medicaid program works or who and what it covers and doesnt cover."

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kan.), a potential pick for the open HHS post in Obama's administration, discusses children's health insurance in this video posted on YouTube by DemocraticGovernors.

In his keynote speech at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in December 2008, former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, MD, suggested we rebuild the US healthcare system using the objectives of IHI's Triple Aim.

In this video, posted by Lucile Packard Children's Hospital on YouTube, Lisa Chamberlain, MD, discusses children's healthcare issues facing the Obama administration and the importance of issues such as SCHIP.

This video details United Healthcare's diabetes-specific health plan for employer-based insurance. The payer maintains that its diabetes plan can save employers up to $500 annually on employee health insurance costs.