State of Reform: Health care policy across the U.S.

The policy community has increasingly galvanized around the need to do something about Texas’s poor performance on maternal health. However, that has not been matched by a consensus about the appropriate policy path forward. This podcast includes some of Texas’s most prominent stakeholders in the policy deliberations on improving maternal health.

Amy Young, MD: Chair, Women's Health Dept., Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin

Amanda Adkins: Vice President, Population Health, Cerner

Adriana Kohler: Senior Health Policy Associate, Texans Care for Children

Both in Hawaii and across the country, the problem and challenge of housing insecurity continues to grow, continues to challenge our sense of community, and continues to fall short of the needs of individuals in distress. This podcasts offers some new ideas and talks through legislative approaches to bridge the world of health care with that of housing insecurity in Hawaii.

Hon. Josh Green, MD: Chair, Senate Committee on Human Services

Daniel Cheng, MD: Assistant Chief, Emergency Department, The Queen's Medical Center

Pam Witty Oakland: Director, Dept. of Community Services, Honolulu County

Accountable Communities of Health were first adopted in Washington State statute in 2014. Four years later, their promise and progress has had mixed results. This session fosters an honest conversation about the future of these new organizations, and the role they may be expected to play moving forward.

Amina Suchoski: Executive Director and VP, Growth & Community Development, United Healthcare Community and State

Alisha Fehrenbacher: Executive Director, Pierce County ACH

Susan McLaughlin: Executive Director, King County ACH

This time of transition challenges leaders to become more creative, more agile, and perhaps more collaborative. This session of executive leaders from Hawaii’s health care sector highlights the principles, strategies, and thinking that underpins the organizational leadership in Hawaii’s health care sector today.

Ray Vara: President & Chief Executive Officer, Hawaii Pacific Health

Mike Stollar: President & Chief Executive Officer, HMSA

Moderated by DJ Wilson, Host of State of Reform

As governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley led one of the most innovative reform efforts to have been implemented in any state. By moving hospitals to a fixed and predictable payment model, incentives for the organizations were redirected from quantity to a new focus on quality. O’Malley was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016, and made health care an important part of his campaign.

We sat down with O’Malley at our 2018 Hawaii State of Reform Health Policy Conference, where he was one of the keynote speakers. We talk through some of the health care reforms he worked on in Maryland, and the current state of our national politics.

John Kitzhaber continues to be one of America’s most important thought leaders on the topic of health reform and health policy. The CCO model Oregon adopted under his governorship remains one of the most ambitious re-designs of the health system in any state. This intimate conversation, moderated by DJ Wilson, includes federal policy, a critique of the work in Washington State, and questions from our audience!

The 2018 legislative session is just around the corner. And with a big election year in California, health care politics are becoming even more important. This session will bring you up to speed on what’s happening in Sacramento policy discussions, and point the way towards what to expect in 2018.

Kassy Perry: President, Perry Communications

David Panush: President, California Health Policy Strategies

Jim Gross: Partner, Nielson Merksamer

Elections have consequences, and the upcoming mid-term elections in 2018 will be no different. The first Congressional elections of Pres. Trump’s term may signal a retrenchment of support for his politics nationally. Here in California, statewide and legislative races likely push the state farther from alignment with Washington DC.

Walter Zelman: Professor and Department Chair, California State University, Los Angeles

John Hoy: Principal, John Hoy Campaigns

Mohit Ghose: Partner, Ghose & Associates

Note: This was recorded at the 2017 Southern California State of Reform Health Policy Conference on Dec. 5, 2017

These leaders from both the House and the Senate discussed the policy outcomes from the last session, the work underway in the interim, and looked ahead to the 2018 legislative session during the 2017 Oregon State of Reform Health Policy Conference.

Hon. Cedric Hayden: Co-Vice Chair, House Committee on Health Care

Hon. Tim Knopp: Member, Senate Committee on Health Care

Hon. Ron Noble: Member, House Committee on Human Services and Housing

Legislative Democrats joined this panel at the 2017 Oregon State of Reform Health Policy Conference to talk through their priorities, policies, and plans for the 2018 legislature, both for health care and policy in general.

Hon. Laurie Monnes Anderson: Chair, Senate Committee on Health Care

Hon. Mitch Greenlick: Chair, House Committee on Health Care

Hon. Rob Nosse: Vice Chair, House Committee on Health Care