New York: Healthcare in Local Politics

Alden Wolfe is vice chairman of the Rockland County, N.Y. Legislature. A Democrat, Wolfe publicly called for the county to apply for an HSS innovation Challenge grant, with which it could work to revive the ailing Summit Park local health system.

Government Health IT Editor Tom Sullivan spoke with Wolfe about that effort, about what impact a Republican president could have on healthcare at the local level and about the difference between federal and local bi-partisan healthcare efforts...