Videos

  • Comparative effectiveness research explained
    January 09, 2010
    Ellen-Marie Whelan discusses evidence-based healthcare and how it can improve care in this video from the Center for American Progress.

  • Community to receive assistance in supporting uninsured
    November 09, 2009
    This video from the South Carolina Hospital Association's YouTube channel shows how Spartanburg, S.C. was selected to receive assistance for their work in supporting the uninsured.

  • CAP: Getting More Value from the Health System
    October 20, 2009
    In this video from the Center for American Progress, Karen Davenport explains what it means to modernize the healthcare system and how doing so could save $550 billion over 10 years.

  • How the health insurance exchange really works
    September 09, 2009
    This video from the Center for American Progress illustrates the concept of the health insurance exchange.

  • The broken individual health insurance market
    August 17, 2009
    Peter Harbage explains the differences between the individual market and employee-sponsored health insurance in the context of health insurance reform in this video from the Center for American Progress' YouTube channel.

  • Making healthcare affordable for small businesses
    August 06, 2009
    In this video from the Center for American Progress' YouTube channel, Peter Harbage explains how small businesses are impacted by high healthcare costs.

  • Kester Freeman on healthcare reform, reimbursement
    July 13, 2009
    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.

  • Retired hospital CEO Don Ammon on healthcare reform
    July 07, 2009
    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.

  • Secretary Sebelius on the urgency of healthcare reform
    May 11, 2009
    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.

  • The effect of the recession on Maryland hospitals
    May 05, 2009
    Carmela Coyle, CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association, discusses the effects of the economic recession on Maryland hospitals in this brief video posted in the American Hospital Association's YouTube channel.

  • The impact of recession on hospitals

    April 30, 2009
    In this video, posted to YouTube by the AHA, Baptist Health CEO Hugh Greene discusses the impact of the ailing economy on his Jacksonville, Fla.-based facility.

  • Uwe Reinhardt champions public health insurance before Congress
    April 22, 2009
    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. Wyden questions CBO on financing healthcare reform
    April 15, 2009
    Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) questions CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf on healthcare reform in this video, posted in Wyden's YouTube channel.

  • CAP expert sounds off on health reform
    April 02, 2009
    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.

  • Hackbarth discusses comparative effectiveness research
    March 25, 2009
    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.

  • Karen Davis testifies on competition in health insurance
    March 17, 2009
    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.

  • Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle on stem cell research
    February 26, 2009
    Gov. Jim Doyle (D-Wis.) discusses Wisconsin's initiatives in stem cell research in this video, posted to YouTube by user DemocraticGovernors.

  • The many faces of Medicaid
    February 26, 2009
    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."

  • Sebelius on children's health insurance
    February 20, 2009
    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.

  • Reforming healthcare beyond financing
    February 13, 2009
    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.