The Powers Report Podcast: Recent Episodes
Janis Powers
In this show, Powers discusses the different factors that have contributed to a decrease in trust between patients and providers. Issues covered include the power of payers to control clinical ...
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Janis Powers talks in depth with one of direct primary care’s (DPC) most committed practitioners, Dr. Paul Thomas of Plum Health DPC. In this episode, Dr. Thomas gives some great ...
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In this episode, Powers compares what’s going on with the fight to contain Covid-19 to different moments in history. Regardless of how you feel about how things have been handled, ...
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Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) may be the best-kept secret in health care. This show features a discussion with Joan Dentler, Founder and CEO of Avanza Healthcare Strategies. Joan has been working ...
The post Episode 33: Health Care’s Best-Kept Secret: ASCs. A conversation with Joan Dentler. appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Biden is back, this time as president. In 2010, he and then President Obama passed the Affordable Care Act because health care was in trouble. Well, it’s still in trouble. ...
The post Episode 32: Who’s Going to Fix Health Care? appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Price transparency in health care is a broad term, making it hard for consumers to understand. We’ve talked about it a lot on our show, noting that pricing for “commoditizable” services ...
The post Episode 31: Price Transparency: A Conversation with Veteran Health Care Administrator David Kelly appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The consumerization of health care is one of the hottest topics for 2021. The movement has been kickstarted by a major price transparency initiative backed by CMS. The question is: ...
The post Episode 30: Health Care without a Net: My Second Year without Health Insurance appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Payment models for health care spending rely too much on subsidization. The privately insured subsidize government programs, the well subsidize the sick, the young subsidize the old. In this episode, ...
The post Episode 29: Need Versus Want: Learning to Self-Ration Our Health Care appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
This is the first show to feature a guest. We’ve invited Dr. Eric Weaver, Director of the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative. Eric is an expert in value-based care, with decades ...
The post Episode 28: A Value-Based Expert Weighs in on Replacing Insurance: A Conversation with Dr. Eric Weaver appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg comes at a time of political and social division in America. A number of issues will continue to be hotly contested, ...
The post Episode 27: R.B.G.’s Immediate Legacy: An Uncertain Future for Health Insurance appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Consumers are looking for ways to lower their health costs. Yet the biggest component to their health care budget is something they cannot change: monthly health insurance premiums. In this ...
The post Episode #26: Consumerism in Health Care, Part II: Health Care Literacy and Moral Hazard appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Health care is almost a $4 trillion industry, yet it has yet to be “consumerized.” Politicians and industry leaders talk frequently about serving the consumer, but what do they really ...
The post Episode #25: Consumerism in Health Care: Part I appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The American hospital system has been under strain with the rise in Covid-19 cases. In some locations around the country, hospitals are busting at the gills, at full occupancy. The ...
The post Episode #24 – Don’t Use Covid-19 as an Excuse to Bail-Out the American Hospital System appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Telemedicine, also known as telehealth, takes your doctor experience and makes it virtual. We’ve come to love it now that we’ve been sheltering at home. It’s convenient, but is it ...
The post Episode #23 – Telemedicine: Your Doctor is In. Your Telemedicine Company is Out. appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Orders for self-quarantining and social distancing have been established across the country as communities battle the COVID-19 coronavirus. We’ve been asked to come together, to make individual sacrifices, all for ...
The post Episode #22 – All for One and One for All in the Time of a Pandemic appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
It seems we’ve all got an opinion about how global, national and local leaders are handing the coronavirus pandemic. In this show, Powers skips over all of that and talks ...
The post Episode #21 – COVID-19 Puts a New Lens to the American Health Care System appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The American political apparatus imploded as the primary season kicked off in Iowa this February. Many wonder how things could have gotten so bad…but then again, many of us are ...
The post Episode #20 – What Health Care Can Learn from the Iowa Caucus Debacle appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Health care costs in America have skyrocketed and the cost of insurance is getting out of control. First premiums went through the roof. Then deductible levels went sky-high. If you’re ...
The post Episode #19 – My Year Without Health Insurance appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
There’s been plenty of talk about Medicare, the public health program for the elderly. Many people don’t realize that Medicare does not cover most of the costs for long-term care. ...
The post Episode #18 – Getting Old Is Hard to Do: Thoughts on Long-Term Care appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
This is the second in a two-part series about price transparency. In the first podcast, I discussed pricing as it relates to hospitals and other providers. In this episode, I ...
The post Episode #17 – Price Transparency, Part II: What to Do About Drugs appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
This is the first in a two-part series about price transparency. In this episode, I will discuss price transparency as it relates to hospitals and other providers. In Part II, ...
The post Episode #16 – Price Transparency, Part I: Ways to Improve Provider Pricing appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Much debate pits a government-run health care system against the private insurance system. I believe we are seeing the development of a third option: The Market Option. More and more ...
The post Episode #15 – Health Care’s Option 3: The Market Option appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Lots of talk is underway about breaking up the big tech companies because of their influence and size. Companies like Alphabet (parent company to Google and YouTube) and Facebook have ...
The post Episode #14 – Breaking Up Is Hard to Do appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The health care industry needs an activism movement. It needs outspoken, courageous individuals who will act with their words and their wallets to bring about behavioral change. Given how unhealthy ...
The post Episode #13 – Health Care Needs a Colin Kaepernick appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Americans have long rhapsodized over our nation’s defining characteristics: freedom and equality. Yet these two ideas are actually contradictory when it comes to the design of health care policy. In ...
The post Episode #12 – The Contradiction of Freedom and Equality in Health Care appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Health care is one of the most important issues to Americans in the upcoming election cycle. The majority of Democratic candidates for president have been rallying around a Medicare-for-All idea. ...
The post Episode #11 – My Ten-Step Replacement Plan for the Affordable Care Act appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Billionaire Robert F. Smith’s commitment to pay off the student loans for the graduating class of Morehead College was a bold philanthropic gesture because it was direct and efficient. Yet ...
The post Episode #10 – Transforming Philanthropy in Health Care appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Talking about hospitals doesn’t have the pizzazz of cutting-edge concepts like blockchain or artificial intelligence. But we have to talk more about hospitals because they spend a lot of money. ...
The post Episode #9 – Let’s Find Out About the Hospital, Part II appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Talking about hospitals doesn’t have the pizzazz of cutting-edge concepts like blockchain or artificial intelligence. But we have to talk more about hospitals because they spend a lot of money. ...
The post Episode #8 – Let’s Find Out About the Hospital, Part I appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Genetic testing has exploded on the consumer market, and advancements in genetic science are offering seismic changes to how we view our health status. But just how accurate are genetic ...
The post Episode #7 – Ins and Outs of Genetic Testing appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The Affordable Care Act authorized broadened Medicaid eligibility requirements, yet a sizeable minority of states have not expanded the program. This podcast was inspired by the referenda undertaken by residents ...
The post Episode #6 – Pros and Cons of Medicaid Expansion appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The health care system has been relentlessly skewered, which is useful in efforts to identify its problems. Yet problem identification cannot provide us with the seismic change that’s necessary to ...
The post Episode #5 – The Longitudinal Health Care Plan appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
Seven out of ten Americans are overweight or obese, and the numbers have been growing. Janis Powers considers obesity to be the greatest challenge to the American health care system. ...
The post Episode #4 – America’s Tragic Normalization of Obesity appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The single payer/universal health care/Medicare-for-All idea has become an increasingly popular subject, especially as the 2020 campaigns get underway. Powers discusses why, on the surface, the concept has merit. Upon ...
The post Episode #3 – The Case Against a Single Payer System appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
The notion that access to health insurance should improve health outcomes has long been accepted in the mainstream. Yet the data indicates that this conception is flawed. In this podcast, ...
The post Episode #2 – Health Insurance Doesn’t Make People Healthier appeared first on The Powers Report Podcast.
“Health care is a right” has become a mainstay slogan for political leaders, health care luminaries and many American citizens. Powers offers up her opinion – that health care is ...
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