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Health Care Reform Videos

Vermont's Lunge on State's Health-Care System
April 03, 2013 | Bloomberg

Advocates of health care reform
March 23, 2013 | KGET NBC 17 Bakersfield

Say What: Health Care Reform
March 18, 2013 | WPMI NBC 15 Mobile

Health Care Reform Wikipedia Information

(This article is about political movements affecting the delivery of health care and health care systems. For more information about movements to improve health, see Health reform.)Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major policy creation or changes --for the most part, governmental policy --that affects healthcare delivery in a given place...

Sacramento Connect

Governor Brown Signs Legislation to Reform California’s Health Insurance Market
May 10, 2013
SACRAMENTO, May 9, 2013 – Helping put an end to the practice of denying health care coverage to Californians with pre-existing conditions, Governor Edmund G...

Reverse Medi-Cal rate cuts, health providers say–or less health care
April 25, 2013
Reverse Medi-Cal rate cuts, health providers say Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 4/25/13 An unlikely coalition of doctors, dentists, hospitals,...

Hope For Real Health Care Reform
April 20, 2013
By Eric NelsonA curious thing happened the other night at the Commonwealth Club of California. Smack-dab in the middle of an all-star panel discussion on the...

Feminist clinic fights to be included in health care reform
March 26, 2013
By Leah Bartos As millions of Californians are projected to gain coverage over the next several years, the independent clinics that have traditionally served the...

School clinics put emphasis on wellness
April 01, 2013
By Chris Richards Just in time for the advent of national health care reform next year, Los Angeles-area schools are opening their first campus-based wellness...

California Health Care Reform: Better access to what?
January 09, 2013
The great health care reform countdown has begun, with nearly every American required to have some level of health insurance by the end of this year. That much...

Other local news reports

Yuba County to hire 21 for Obamacare call center
March 26, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
By Eric Vodden A-D Reporter Yuba County is planning to hire 21 permanent employees to work at a customer service call center to handle new social service clients generated by federal health care reform ...

Insurance official discusses health- care reform in Yuba- Sutter
February 23, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
Daniel Kopti, compliance consultant with Wells Fargo Insurance Services, reviewed employer and employee challenges under federal health care reform, also called Obamacare, at...

Peach Tree Health Care preps for reform, reshuffles
February 09, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
Less than a year before health care reform goes into effect, Peach Tree Health Care is changing its philosophy and expanding services in hopes of being ready. Whether the...

From around the web

For startups, health care reform is a huge opportunity, HHS tech guy says
May 21, 2013 | VentureBeat
The Affordable Care Act, aka health care reform, aka Obamacare, is spurring a massive creation of new business opportunities, according to the HHS chief technical officer,...

Doctors scared they will lose money due to new technology
May 21, 2013 | VentureBeat
According to a survey of 5,000 practicing doctors, many physicians are nervous about their ability to make money in the coming year, thanks to technology complexities, health care reform ...

The IRS, AP Phone Scandals Show The Bigger Government Gets, The More Tyrannical it...
May 15, 2013 | Wake up America
In different ways, the IRS uproar, the Justice Department leak investigations, the Benghazi tragedy and the misleading attempts to explain it, and the growing problems with implementation of health care reform ...

Former WellPoint CEO appointed to IEDC board
May 07, 2013 | indystar.com
But the company also failed to meet Wall Street's earning expectations several times, and Braly became embroiled in a high-profile dispute with President Barack Obama when the company hiked rates in California during Obama's push for health care reform ...

Video- GOP Reacts To Obama's' Glitches And Bumps' Quote About Implementation Of Obamacare
May 01, 2013 | Wake up America
'' (David Nather,'' 4 Hard Truths Of Health Care Reform ... '' (David Nather,'' 4 Hard Truths Of Health Care Reform,'' Politico, 3/16/12) University Of Chicago Study Found...

No compromise in sight, health care deal likely dead
May 01, 2013 | Naked Politics
Despite promises they would work toward middle ground, House and Senate leaders have been unable to reach agreement on health care reform and the session has only two days left....

Health Care Reform on twitter

	RT @BigSkyDem: 27 states +Iowa Gov Terry Branstad 9th (R) supporting medicaid expansion Pres Obama's health care reform law http://t.co/q5jzk2KFn3 #mtpol Twitter: @Ravan_A
	HHS Offers $150M To Boost Enrollment in State Health Exchanges - http://t.co/JTY7iJVXLF Twitter: @NewVisionsOne
	If Health Care Reform, takes hold, then we will be forced to self service our own idea about personal care. Why don't we do that anyway? Twitter: @Ergofloss
	GOP Bill Would Extend ACA's Temporary High-Risk Insurance Program - http://t.co/SGMmujMZsi Twitter: @NewVisionsOne
	White House Issues Veto Warning on GOP Bill To Extend High-Risk Pools - http://t.co/3J2jWCO15X Twitter: @NewVisionsOne
	GOP Bill Would Require Federal Workers To Buy Coverage via Exchanges - http://t.co/WAteS194SJ Twitter: @NewVisionsOne

YouTube Videos

Health Reform Explained Video: "Health Reform Hits Main Street"
September 17, 2010

Behind Health Care Reform: An Insider's View: Stan Hupfeld at TEDxOU
February 19, 2013

CNN Explains: Health care reform
March 23, 2012

Health Care Reform Books

How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
Otis Webb Brawley, $5.99

The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry
Paul Starr, $14.11

The Law of Healthcare Administration, Sixth Edition
J. Stuart Showalter, $115.17

The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America
James T. Patterson, $14.22

Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him
Richard Miniter, $1.19

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