Video archive
This page is an archive of videos related to KHI News Service stories and other KHI research and policy products.
Health Reform: What Happens Now?
A convening with Robert Laszewski and Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger. Laszewski, a nationally renowned expert on health reform and president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates in Washington, D.C.
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Health Reform: What Happens Now?
December 4, 2012
Health Reform: What Happens Now?
A convening with Robert Laszewski and Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger. Laszewski, a nationally renowned expert on health reform and president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates in Washington, D.C.
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Nick Jordan on the 2012 Kansas Tax Cut
August 20, 2012
Nick Jordan on the 2012 Kansas Tax Cut
Nick Jordan, Kansas secretary of revenue, explains how he thinks the tax cut plan signed by Gov. Sam Brownback will benefit Kansas.
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Joan Wagnon on the 2012 Kansas Tax Cut
August 20, 2012
Joan Wagnon on the 2012 Kansas Tax Cut
Joan Wagnon, former Kansas Secretary of Revenue and current chair of the state Democratic Party, outlines why she thinks the tax cut plan signed by Gov. Sam Brownback will be bad for Kansas.
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Praeger on the Supreme Court upholding the health reform law
June 28, 2012
Praeger on the Supreme Court upholding the health reform law
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger: "I'm proud of our country today."
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The Great Health Reform Debate: Maynard Oliverius, CEO Stormont-Vail HealthCare
May 22, 2012
The Great Health Reform Debate: Maynard Oliverius, CEO Stormont-Vail HealthCare
Oliverius, a longtime hospital administrator, provides a historical viewpoint on health reform and its ultimate goal of improving access to health care for all Americans. “The Affordable Care Act is really a continuation of a public health policy that was formulated really back in the 1940s,” he says. As part of the health reform law passed in 2010, he says, hospitals agreed to forgo $155 billion in Medicare compensation with the expectation that 32 million Americans who now are uninsured will gain coverage through Medicaid or the insurance exchanges. Oliverius acknowledges that the health reform law has flaws but says, “What I would hope is that Congress would look at the law, tweak, fix those things that need to be adjusted and fixed, and try to move away from the political ideology war that seems to be going on today.” This is the first of six short videos.
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The Great Health Reform Debate: Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insurance Commissioner
May 22, 2012
The Great Health Reform Debate: Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insurance Commissioner
In her ninth year as insurance commissioner and her role as the point person in Kansas for implementing many elements of health reform, Praeger provides some perspective on the reasoning behind the Affordable Care Act. The individual mandate, which requires almost everyone to have health insurance, is designed to spread the risks of insurance coverage and address the costs of health care. “If we’re going to get our arms around the cost, I think we have to get everyone in the market, everyone getting access to health care services,” she says. The current system is unsustainable, Praeger says. “Is it really desirable for us to continue to have 30, 40, 50 million people in our country uninsured? I don’t think so. When I explain that to folks that way, they get it.” This is the second of six short videos.
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The Great Health Reform Debate: Derek Schmidt, Kansas Attorney General
May 22, 2012
The Great Health Reform Debate: Derek Schmidt, Kansas Attorney General
By joining the legal argument against the Affordable Care Act, Schmidt seeks to protect the rights of Kansas and the 25 other states challenging the law. The case against the individual mandate challenges a “claim of power by the Congress that it never before has claimed,” he says. “Congress may not exercise a power that it does not have … and that’s what we’re fighting.” Regarding Medicaid expansion, Schmidt says states really don’t have a choice but to accept the change in order to keep federal funding for the costly program. However, he acknowledges that there are “underlying issues in the health care access, delivery and financing circumstances that brought us to this point in the first place.” The legal challenge to health reform does not mean the health care system should go untouched, Schmidt says. “Our position is not that nothing should happen. Our position is that … Congress has to color within the lines.” This is the third of six short videos.
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The Great Health Reform Debate: Matt All, VP Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
May 22, 2012
The Great Health Reform Debate: Matt All, VP Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
Here’s how All sees it: “The problems of health care really are the problems of insurance.” He explains the two biggest challenges that health insurance companies face – adverse selection and moral hazard – and how they affect the current health care market. All also discusses the politics that surround health insurance, which he breaks down into a greed vs. free market argument. “It can’t just be pure competition on the one hand, but it can’t just be a government solution on the other hand,” he says. “Neither of those really fit the problems that we have.” This is the fourth of six short videos.
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The Great Health Reform Debate: Suzanne Schrandt, Senior Analyst, Kansas Health Institute
May 22, 2012
The Great Health Reform Debate: Suzanne Schrandt, Senior Analyst, Kansas Health Institute
Spreading the word about what’s in the Affordable Care Act – and what it means for Kansans – can be challenging, Schrandt says, because policy issues are complex. “Polls do tell us that people really do not understand what’s in the law,” she says, although some are familiar with elements such as new insurance rules regarding people with pre-existing conditions or employers of certain sizes. “People are very aware of the individual mandate. They know there’s going to be a requirement that they have to get coverage in 2014,” she says. “But they don’t know the flip side, which is there will be new ways to get that coverage. There will be health insurance exchanges and federal assistance to pay for it.” This is the fifth of six short videos.
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The Great Health Reform Debate: Jay Angoff, HHS Midwest Regional Director
May 22, 2012
The Great Health Reform Debate: Jay Angoff, HHS Midwest Regional Director
As a member of the Obama administration, Angoff outlines key elements of the law that polls show are popular even among Americans who say they don’t support health reform. “When people are asked what they think about the health reform bill, they react negatively,” he says. “But when you ask people what they think about the specific provisions of the law … they’re all for them, including some of the people who are the most aggressively opposed to the law in theory.” Angoff explains how the law is designed to protect consumers by guaranteeing coverage for everyone, regardless of health status, and helping to control health costs by drawing more people into the insurance pool. This is the sixth of six short videos.
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Gov. Sam Brownback on the developmentally disabled in KanCare
April 12, 2012
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2012 County Health Rankings video report
April 3, 2012
2012 County Health Rankings video report
Dr. Gianfranco Pezzino discusses some of the key concepts of the 2012 County Health Rankings report, released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
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The Health Reform Challenge Before the Supreme Court
March 26, 2012
The Health Reform Challenge Before the Supreme Court
This explainer breaks down the four legal arguments before U.S. Supreme Court as it hears the challenge of the Affordable Care Act brought by 26 states, including Kansas. Narrator Suzanne Schrandt is a KHI senior analyst and health reform strategy team leader.
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What's In the Affordable Care Act?
March 23, 2012
What's In the Affordable Care Act?
Two years after being signed into law, many Americans still don't know much about the health care reform law, The Affordable Care Act. This video steps through all the basics, making a complex law hopefully a little easier to understand.
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Introducing: KHI's new Budget Puzzle and budget page
January 18, 2012
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Charles Fluharty, president of RUPRI
November 21, 2011
Charles Fluharty, president of RUPRI
Fluharty speaks at the Nov. 17 southeast Kansas economic summit in Iola. Organizers of the event were Sens. Pat Apple of Louisburg, Jeff King of Independence, Bob Marshall of Fort Scott and Dwayne Umbarger of Thayer.
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Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer on Medicaid reform
November 8, 2011
Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer on Medicaid reform
Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer talks at a Tuesday news conference about the Medicaid reform plan will slow the growth in Medicaid costs to save the state general fund an estimated $367.5 million over the next five years.
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KMS Medicaid makeover reaction
November 8, 2011
KMS Medicaid makeover reaction
Jerry Slaughter, executive director of the Kansas Medical Society, is anxious to see the details of the Medicaid reform plan. But he said immediately after the governor’s news conference that the managed care approach is one that doctors can support given the administration’s promise to prohibit contractors from reducing provider reimbursement rates.
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Kansas doctor becomes first member of ONC's "Meaningful Use Vanguard"
August 17, 2011
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Sen. Moran: Medicare headed for insolvency
June 28, 2011
Sen. Moran: Medicare headed for insolvency
Sen. Moran was one of 40 Republicans who voted in May for a House-passed deficit-trimming budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., which would have cut spending by at least $4.4 trillion over 10. It also called for transforming Medicare from the health care entitlement program it is today to one that provides seniors with subsidies to purchase private insurance. Moran says Medicare is headed for insolvency and that he voted for the Ryan budget to force a conversation about how to prevent that from happening.
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