Policy and Legislation

In this video, retired hospital CEO Kester Freeman speaks to the urgency of healthcare reform and the need for a rational reimbursement system for providers.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday it has posted new ratings on 4,000 hospitals on its "Hospital Compare" website, including new mortality and readmission data.

In this video by Action for Better Healthcare, Don Ammon, retired president and CEO of Adventist Health, discusses the importance of adjusting incentives for primary care physicians as a key part of healthcare reform.

Nurses believe that heavy workloads and insufficient staff are impacting patient care and health outcomes around the world, according to research presented at the International Council of Nurses' 24th Quadrennial Congress.

Healthcare costs for the nation's employers are expected to grow by another nine percent next year, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.

A new nationwide initiative is promoting e-ordering as a means to cut the billions of dollars in waste a year resulting from unnecessary or duplicative diagnostic image tests.

The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2017, two years earlier than originally projected, according to the annual report by Medicare Trustees.

In this video from the US Health Reform YouTube channel, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks at the AFCSME's 12 National Nurses Congress about the need for healthcare reform.

Between 2003 and 2008, Medicaid physician fees rose 15.1 percent, closing a portion of the gap with Medicare physician payment rates, according to a study by researchers from the Urban Institute.

In this short video posted in Rep. Pete Stark's (D-Calif.) YouTube channel, Uwe Reinhardt, a well-known healthcare economist at Princeton University, testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee on the impact of a public health insurance plan.