Government & Policy

Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund and a nationally recognized economist, has a bone to pick with the federal government's recent report on U.S. healthcare spending.

Vermont lawmakers are taking steps to move the state toward a publicly-financed insurance program and craft a state health exchange, which is required by the 2010 federal health law and which state officials hope to use as the groundwork for their eventual move to a unique single-payer system.

Newt Gingrich, the self-proclaimed "big ideas candidate," still in the running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has a history with Healthcare IT News.

Empowering patients to take a more active role in their own health care is only the beginning of what social media is making possible.

In his latest installment of 'My Cup of IT' MeriTalk founder Steve O'Keefe looks into the new buzzword coming to the Beltway and finds a lack of Big Data Big Brains. Know any?

Physician and blogger Kevin Pho, MD, who practices medicine in Nashua, N.H., discusses the healthcare issues that matter most to Granite State voters, and explains how politics shape ballot casters' views of health reform during the primary process.

Kevin Pho, MD, speaks with Government Health IT about the facets of healthcare that matter most to New Hampshire primary voters, how politics shape citizens' health reform views and whether a Republican really could repeal the healthcare law if elected.

Dr. Anne Beal, in this interview with Kaiser Health News, discusses the entrepreneurial spirit that is fueling PCORI, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

With health care a low-impact issue for voters in Iowa, it was safer for candidates in Iowa to limit discussion to attacking "Obamacare."

Lorraine Fernandes, who is the global healthcare ambassador, explains how the sheer volume of data growth will open new doors to improving healthcare and making it more cost-effective.