Policy and Legislation
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.
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.
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.
In this video posted in Rep. Pete Stark's (D-Calif.) YouTube channel, Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis testifies on the need for competition in the health insurance market.
Gov. Jim Doyle (D-Wis.) discusses Wisconsin's initiatives in stem cell research in this video, posted to YouTube by user DemocraticGovernors.
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.