Policy and Legislation

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.

At the beginning of the year, Mass. Governor Deval Patrick convened a panel to examine the agreement between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachsetts and Partners, the umbrella organization of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to determine whether the relationship was driving up healthcare costs, “making it harder to extend healthcare insurance to all residents.”

HCA Inc. entered a new phase last month, becoming a privately held company on November 16 after shareholders approved one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history.As part of the buyout, sh...