Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Alaska Department of Education & Early DevelopmentClear
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Heidi Hedberg“That started October 1st for January cohort. I still have the same number of staff. I still have a better IT system, but I am— we're not on staff yet. So there's significant concerns around supporting the IT modernization efforts.”
xit Interviews: What Alaska's Commissioners Want the Next Governor to Know - October 15, 2026 ·
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Heidi Hedberg“And so we have had to pivot in the last year to address those changes.”
xit Interviews: What Alaska's Commissioners Want the Next Governor to Know - October 15, 2026 ·
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Heidi Hedberg“There's been a lot of work in that space, and then we have a strong team that is working it. But we are just— it's a boat that's just getting stood up and moving forward.”
xit Interviews: What Alaska's Commissioners Want the Next Governor to Know - October 15, 2026 ·
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Heidi Hedberg“Budget neutrality language was also implemented, and that means that we need to ensure that the cost of care is appropriate, which means we need to make changes within our Medicaid program.”
xit Interviews: What Alaska's Commissioners Want the Next Governor to Know - October 15, 2026 ·
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Heidi Hedberg“I would say the SNAP/Medicaid changes, our congressional delegation wrote in to the bill to give us more time. But we have a lot of work to reduce our payment error rate to get it below 6% by the end of this calendar year, and we're sitting at 20%. Otherwise, the new administration administration, it's a $45 million price tag to pay for those benefits. So like the workflow, the work changes have to happen this year. This year is critical for those changes.”
xit Interviews: What Alaska's Commissioners Want the Next Governor to Know - October 15, 2026 ·
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Heidi Hedberg“Last year there was a significant change through HR1 that changed Medicaid and SNAP and budget neutrality.”
xit Interviews: What Alaska's Commissioners Want the Next Governor to Know - October 15, 2026 ·
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Heidi Hedberg“As I mentioned earlier, Medicaid, there is for our expansion population, which is about 47,000 Alaskans, we need to renew their eligibility every 6 months.”
xit Interviews: What Alaska's Commissioners Want the Next Governor to Know - October 15, 2026 ·