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America's costly and complicated health care system faces an enormous burden: fixing the flaws the pandemic has revealed in our health care system. Addressing these flaws will require us to tackle hard questions with no easy answers. It will require Tradeoffs. Long-time health care reporter Dan Gorenstein hosts an examination of health care, policy, and people; and the weighty decisions we all find ourselves faced with.
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals have adopted practices that discuss medical mistakes and offer support to the people who must cope with the often tragic consequences. We examine why experts are calling on the Biden Administration to make patient safety a national priority.
Guests:
Jack Gentry, patient
Naomi Kirtner and Jeff Goldenberg, patient’s family and Founders of Talia’s Voice
Tom Gallagher, MD, Director, UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety
Stephen Kuracheck, MD, Former Chief of Critical Care and Medical Director of Quality at Children’s Minnesota
Julie Morath, RN, Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s Working Group on Patient Safety
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Employers are facing a big dilemma: how do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This week, the questions are forcing companies to re-examine their attitudes on obesity as the understanding of the disease deepens.
Guests:
Sean Scanlon, Connecticut Comptroller
Jeff Levin-Scherz, WTW population health leader
Mike Thompson, President of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Olivia Quagliani, Patient
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A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance.
Can this idea from abroad take root in the United States?
Guests:
Dawn Alley, PhD, Head of Scale, IMPaCT Care
Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Ariadne Labs
Regina Hammond, Founder, Rebuild Johnston Square Neighborhood Organization
Chris Koller, President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Terry Lindsay, Community Health Worker, Sisters Together and Reaching, Inc. (STAR)
Sarah Szanton, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; Founder, Neighborhood Nursing
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As Congress figures out the future of telehealth, we get a reality check from a top researcher about what this care has and has not delivered.
Guest:
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Professor, Brown University School of Public Health
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Just like the rest of us, when clinicians are short on time and overwhelmed by complex decisions, their brains look for corners to cut, numbers to round, patterns to repeat. This week, Dan talks with Harvard physician and economist Bapu Jena about the surprising impact these mental shortcuts can have on our health care.
Guest:
Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
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While stories of private equity firms running amok in health care are easy to find, new research paints a more nuanced picture.
Guests:
Ambar La Forgia, PhD, Professor of Management of Organizations, Berkeley Haas School of Business
Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Yashaswini Singh, PhD, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health
Atul Gupta, PhD, Professor Health Care Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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A major new study throws cold water on a popular approach to relieving medical debt, but leading experts say the research also reveals a promising path forward.
Guests:
Henry Harrell, MD, Physician
Neale Mahoney, PhD, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Allison Sesso, President and CEO, Undue Medical Debt
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One advocate’s vision for the crucial role patients must play in the future of health care AI.
Andrea Downing, President and Co-Founder, The Light Collective
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Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly turn into $10,000 hospital visits. America’s health care leaders have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned?
Guests:
Jeff Brenner, MD, CEO, The Jewish Board
Arthur Brown, Client, Camden Coalition
Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America
Allison Hamblin, MSPH, President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies
Paula Lantz, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan
Larry Moore, Client, Camden Coalition
Kathleen Noonan, JD, President and CEO, Camden Coalition
Dottie Scott, Community Health Worker, Camden Coalition
Brian Thompson, Housing Coordinator, Camden Coalition
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.
Guest:
Gwen O'Keefe, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, OHSU
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As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.
Guest:
Sandy E. James, JD, PhD, Lead Researcher, 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey
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Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and Latina girls get left behind?
Guests:
Monica Bhatt, PhD, Senior Research Director, University of Chicago Education Lab
Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD, Professor, Washington University
Kathleen Ethier, PhD, Director, CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health
Ngozi Harris, LCPC, Working on Womanhood Director of Program and Staff Development, Youth Guidance
Shekinah Jackson, Working on Womanhood Participant
Nora-Lisa Malloy, Working on Womanhood Counselor, Youth Guidance
Heidi Sipe, EdS, Superintendent, Umatilla School District (OR)
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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
Guest:
Benjamin Chartock, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bentley University
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As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospitals and insurers are getting in the way. We get an inside look at one doctor’s quest to improve health care for people with conditions like Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism.
Guests:
Alison Barkoff, JD, Administration for Community Living, HHS
Kevin Carlson
Clarissa Kripke, MD, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Office of Developmental Primary Care; University of California, San Francisco
Marjorie Ongpauco, BSN, RN, Nursing Consultant
Harold Pollack, PhD, Professor of Social Work, Policy and Practice; University of Chicago
Donna Valencia, BSN, RN, MSN, Administrator, Group Home Administrator
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the country’s sickest, poorest patients?
Guests:
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Saleema Render-Hornsby, Dually eligible patient
Allison Rizer, MBA, Executive Vice President, ATI Advisory
Eric Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Casey Schwarz, JD, Senior Counsel, Medicare Rights Center
Hong Truong, Caregiver of dually eligible patient
Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter, Tradeoffs
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There are a lot of concerns about the dangers artificial intelligence could pose to your health privacy. AI expert Nicholson Price explains why he thinks too much concern over privacy could make health care AI worse.
Guest:
Nicholson Price, JD, PhD, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could wind up being worse for patients.
Guests:
Ge Bai, PhD, CPA, Professor of Accounting at Carey Business School, Professor of Health Policy at Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University
Jill Horwitz, PhD, JD, MPP, David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine and Founding Faculty Director, Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits, UCLA
Donna Lynne, DrPH, Denver Health CEO
Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, President and CEO of America’s Essential Hospitals
Gary Young, PhD, JD, Director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University
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A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we talk with journalist Steven Petrow about his sister’s choice to use medical aid in dying.
Guest:
Steven Petrow, Journalist and author
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Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?
Guest:
Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; primary care physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbating racial bias in health care.
Guests:
Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
James Ellzy, MD, Chief Health Officer, Oracle Health Government Services
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Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way health care is delivered in America.
Guests:
Zach Baron, Co-director of Health Policy and the Law Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health at Georgetown University Law Center
Katie Eyer, Professor at Rutgers Law School
Laurie Sobel, Associate Director of Women's Health Policy at KFF
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
Guests:
Eric Ezzi, Certified Recovery Specialist, Penn Medicine
Ashish Thakrar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Leslie Suen, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Ryan Levi, Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs
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We've got a lot to share with you in 2024!
We're looking into how fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are upending long established treatments for opioid addiction, and what clinicians and policymakers are doing to adapt.
There are a bunch of cases in the courts this year that have the potential to change Americans' access to care, and restrict the power of federal health agencies.
And nearly 25 years after a landmark case, declaring that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a right to live outside state-run institutions, we examine how doctors, hospitals and insurers are failing many of them … and one woman's work to forge a better path.
New episodes start 25 January, 2024!
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Last fall, the federal government named its first 10 targets for historic drug price negotiations with big pharma. Those negotiations are expected to heat up this February when federal officials make their opening price offers.
This week, we offer a refresher on how this negotiation process will work and the impact it could have.
Guests:
Anton Avanceña, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Outcomes, University of Texas
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Public Policy, University of Southern California
Lauren Neves, JD, Deputy Vice President, PhRMA
Steve Pearson, MD, MSc, Founder and President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)
Ben Rome, MD, MPH, physician and researcher, Harvard Medical School
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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More than 130 hospitals have closed in rural America over the last decade. Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble spent a year embedded in one small Kansas town as they dealt with their own hospital closure.
Guest: Sarah Jane Tribble, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
Read a transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/08/losing-a-hospital/
Hear more of Sarah Jane's reporting about Fort Scott on the first season of Where It Hurts: whereithurts.show
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From where medical students are choosing to train to how doctors are caring for women in reproductive health crises, the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe has had major ripple effects on the field of medicine. In this conversation from our friends at STAT's First Opinion podcast, host Torie Bosch talks with two abortion providers about what it's like to practice medicine in post-Roe America.
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Economist Amy Finkelstein has studied America’s patchwork of health insurance policies for more than 20 years. In a forthcoming book she concludes it’s time tear the whole system down.
This week, Dan talks with Amy about how she came to that conclusion and what a better system could look like.
Guest:
Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on a burned out workforce. But there are also concerns that these powerful new tools will perpetuate biases and inequities long baked into our health care system.
In Part 2 of our special series on racial bias in health care AI, we dig into what the Biden administration is doing to keep biased algorithms from getting to the bedside.
Guests:
Emily Sterrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Improvement Science, Duke University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, Population Health & Data Science Lead, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
Minerva Tantoco, Chief AI Officer, New York University McSilver Institute for Poverty, Policy and Research
Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Kathryn Marchesini, JD, Chief Privacy Officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Melanie Fontes Rainer, JD, Director, HHS Office for Civil Rights
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Dan Gorenstein will moderate three one-on-one discussions featuring industry leaders and top officials from ONC, FDA, and HHS’ Office of Civil Rights over two plenary sessions, you can watch them here.
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on a burned out workforce. But there are also concerns that these powerful new tools will perpetuate biases and inequities long baked into our health care system.
In the first of two back-to-back episodes on racial bias in health care AI, we explore the challenge of diagnosing bias in AI and what one health system is trying to do about it.
Guests:
Emily Sterrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Improvement Science, Duke University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, Population Health & Data Science Lead, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
Ganga Moorthy, MD, Global Health Fellow, Duke Pediatric Infectious Disease Program
Paige Nong, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan School of Public Health
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Dan Gorenstein will moderate three one-on-one discussions featuring industry leaders and top officials from ONC, FDA, and HHS’ Office of Civil Rights over two plenary sessions, you can watch them here.
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In this special episode we reflect on a few of our favorite stories of 2023 and hear how they’re making a difference for patients and policymakers.
Guests:
Hannah Neprash, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Jami Snyder, MA, president and chief executive officer of consulting firm JSN Strategies
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals have adopted practices that discuss medical mistakes and offer support to the people who must cope with the often tragic consequences. We examine why experts are calling on the Biden Administration to make patient safety a national priority.
Guests:
Jack Gentry, patient
Naomi Kirtner and Jeff Goldenberg, patient’s family and Founders of Talia’s Voice
Tom Gallagher, MD, Director, UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety
Stephen Kuracheck, MD, Former Chief of Critical Care and Medical Director of Quality at Children’s Minnesota
Julie Morath, RN, Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s Working Group on Patient Safety
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Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shielded from these unexpected charges. But who should pick up the tab instead? As state and federal policymakers grapple with that question, we delve into why finding a fair solution is harder than you’d think.
Guests:
Tara Bannow, Reporter, STAT
Precious Mae Clark, patient
Dia Gainor, Executive Director, National Association of State EMS Officials
Zach Gaumer, Principal, Health Management Associates
James Gelfand, JD President and CEO, ERISA Industry Committee
Bob Herman, Reporter, STAT
Pete Lawrence, Deputy Chief, Oceanside Fire
Butch Oberhoff, President, Texas EMS Alliance
Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs
Matt Zavadsky, At-Large Director, National Association of EMTs
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Health care leaders are spending more time and money trying to improve the way doctors and nurses talk with their patients, to build more trust. Are those efforts working? We eavesdrop on some difficult conversations between patients and providers, and meet researchers who are measuring the power of using just the right words.
This episode first aired in 2019 and remains as relevant as ever.
Guests:
Andrea Anderson, MD, Medical Director, Unity Health Care
Sumeera Baig, MD, Physician, R-Health
Calvin Chou, MD, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hannah Herman, DO, Resident, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
Lauren Howe, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Natalie Levinson, patient
Jeff Milstein, MD, Regional Medical Director, Penn Primary Care
Kathy Trow, MSN, APN-C, Nurse Practitioner, Penn Medicine
Jessika Welcome, mother of patient Natalie Levinson
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California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing and food for some of the state’s sickest and most vulnerable residents. Everyone expected this transformation — known as CalAIM — to take some time to hit its stride. We dig into CalAIM’s early challenges and what’s being done to right the ship.
Guests:
Pooja Bhalla, DNP, RN, CEO, Illumination Foundation
Jacey Cooper, Medicaid Director, California Department of Health Care Services
Kelly Bruno-Nelson, MSW, Executive Director of Medi-Cal/CalAIM, CalOptima Health
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A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions — like depression and post traumatic stress disorder. The federal government continues to say it’s illegal to use these substances for treatment, but states like Oregon and Colorado are attempting to roll out regulated use. We talk with Mason Marks about the latest research, regulation, and legal gray areas on psychedelics.
Guests:
Mason Marks, JD MD Project Lead on the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
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Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Private insurance companies and brokers unleash this flurry of marketing in hopes of persuading as many people as possible to switch plans during Medicare’s open enrollment period.
This week, we explore how too many choices, too little help and an alarming amount of deception combine to lead many of America’s most vulnerable older adults astray.
Guests:
Gretchen Jacobson, PhD, Vice President, Commonwealth Fund
Lauren Lachs, Volunteer, Medicare Rights Center
Leslie Montgomery, Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary
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In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to study whether cyberattacks actually harm patients. This week, she shares her striking findings, and we revisit the inside story of a ransomware negotiation that sparked her work.
Guests:
Karen Sprenger, CISSP, GCFE, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Ransomware Negotiator, LMG Security
Hannah Neprash, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
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Employers are facing a big dilemma: how do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This week, the questions are forcing companies to re-examine their attitudes on obesity as the understanding of the disease deepens.
Guests:
Sean Scanlon, Connecticut Comptroller
Jeff Levin-Scherz, WTW population health leader
Mike Thompson, President of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Olivia Quagliani, Patient
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Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they need.
Guests:
Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jean Minkel, PT, ATP, Senior Vice President of Rehab and Mobility Services, Independence Care System
Rochelle Render, advocate and mother of Saleema Render-Hornsby
Saleema Render-Hornsby, dually eligible person
Allison Rizer, Principal, ATI Advisory
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and Latina girls get left behind?
Guests:
Monica Bhatt, PhD, Senior Research Director, University of Chicago Education Lab
Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD, Professor, Washington University
Kathleen Ethier, PhD, Director, CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health
Ngozi Harris, LCPC, Working on Womanhood Director of Program and Staff Development, Youth Guidance
Shekinah Jackson, Working on Womanhood Participant
Nora-Lisa Malloy, Working on Womanhood Counselor, Youth Guidance
Heidi Sipe, EdS, Superintendent, Umatilla School District (OR)
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating between making the rounds on hospital patients and reading up on the latest health policy research for the Tradeoffs newsletter.
Guest:
Soleil Shah, MD, MSc, Research Reporter, Tradeoffs; Resident Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Nearly two decades ago, Dr. Jeff Brenner hypothesized that nurses and social workers could guide the country's most complicated patients toward better health ... and cut expensive hospital admissions along the way. Was he right?
Jeff Brenner, Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers
Amy Finkelstein, Economist, MIT
Kathleen Noonan, Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers
Allison Hamblin, Center for Health Care Strategies
Jensen Skinner, Nurse, Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers
Larry Moore, Patient
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About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, access and inequity issues.
This week, we look at a federal experiment revamping Medicare's hospice policy, and how it could ultimately change the way millions of people die.
Guests:
Vince Mor, PhD, Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University
Bethany Snider, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Hosparus Health
David Stevenson, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer, Tradeoffs
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People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to solidly red Utah think bringing Medicaid behind bars could help.
Guests:
Lee Reed
Shira Shavit, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco; Executive Director, Transitions Clinic Network
Jacey Cooper, Director, California Medicaid Program
Cindy Beane, MSW, LCSW, Commissioner, West Virginia Bureau of Medical Services
Amy Katzen, JD, MPP, Director of Policy and Strategy, Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Mike Levine, Medicaid Director, MassHealth
Dana Flannery, Former Senior Policy Advisor, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Khalil Cumberbatch, MSW, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Council on Criminal Justice
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One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive way - by holding hospitals and insurance companies accountable for high spending. In this episode we look to see if any of those efforts have bent the cost curve.
Guests:
Leemore Dafny, PhD, Harvard University economist
Michael Bailit, MBA President and Founder Bailit Health
David Seltz, Executive Director Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
Amy Rosenthal, MPH, MPA Executive Director Health Care For All
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Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from maternal mortality to life expectancy. What if improving health literacy and demystifying health information could be the part of the solution?
This week, one doctor’s crusade to help more people understand their own health care and why insurers are starting to buy in.
Guests:
Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA, Founder and CEO, Grapevine Health
Keith Maccannon, Director of Marketing, Outreach and Community Relations, AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia
Yvonne Smith, Grapevine Client
Karen Dale, RN, MSN, Market President, AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia
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The Inflation Reduction Act gave Medicare historic new power to directly negotiate the prices of some of the costliest prescription drugs. Now the federal agency must grapple with a difficult question: What makes a drug price fair?
This week, we explain how this negotiation process will work and the impact it could have.
Guests:
Anton Avanceña, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Outcomes, University of Texas
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Public Policy, University of Southern California
Lauren Neves, JD, Deputy Vice President, PhRMA
Steve Pearson, MD, MSc, Founder and President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)
Ben Rome, MD, MPH, physician and researcher, Harvard Medical School
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response. Now, he’s back in the world of studies and scholarship leading Brown University's School of Public Health. This week, what he learned from his time in Washington.
Guest:
Ashish Jha, Dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health and former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator
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It’s been one year since 988, the country’s new mental health crisis line, went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So far, call volumes are up, wait times are down, and reviews are mixed.
This week, we check in on what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next for 988.
Content warning: This episode includes mentions of suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.
Guests:
Naomi
Monica Johnson, Director of the 988 & Behavioral Health Crisis Coordinating Office, SAMHSA
Shawn Kinney, 988 Crisis Counselor, First Choice Services
Deborah Turner, Director of Crisis and Referral Services, Goodwill of the Finger Lakes
Hannah Wesolowski, Chief Advocacy Officer, National Alliance on Mental Illness
Tia Dole, PhD, Chief 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Officer, Vibrant Emotional Health
Kellan Baker, PhD, Executive Director, Whitman-Walker Institute
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Economist Amy Finkelstein has studied America’s patchwork of health insurance policies for more than 20 years. In a forthcoming book she concludes it’s time tear the whole system down.
This week, Dan talks with Amy about how she came to that conclusion realization and what a better system could look like.
Guest:
Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT
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More than 1.5 million people have lost Medicaid coverage since April 1 as states start purging people from the rolls for the first time in three years.
This week, we check in on the “Medicaid unwinding” with a leading researcher, and get an up- close look at what it’s like to fall through the unwinding cracks.
Guests:
Adrianna McIntyre, PhD, MPP, MPH, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Farah Yousry, Managing Editor, Side Effects Public Media
Bobby Summers, Medicaid recipient
Kathryn Bamberger, Outreach & Enrollment Coordinator, Southeast Healthcare Services
Joel Potts, Executive Director, Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association
Cindy Gauder, Caseworker, Greene County Department of Jobs and Family Services
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One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut their doors or moved to states where abortion is still legal.
This week, Politico’s Alice Miranda Ollstein takes us to an Alabama clinic that stayed put. She wanted to learn what happens when an abortion clinic can no longer provide abortions.
Guest:
Alice Miranda Ollstein, Health Care Reporter, Politico
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Medicare is in the midst of a pretty dramatic transformation. Before long, two out of every three enrollees will likely have a private Medicare Advantage plan.
This week, we look at what’s gained and what’s lost when private insurers manage so much of the nation’s Medicare program — and where we go from here.
Guests:
Carol Berman, Medicare Advantage enrollee
Rick Gilfillan, MD, MBA, independent consultant, former hospital and insurance executive and former Medicare official
Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Next week many of the country’s health economists will gather in St. Louis to share new research at the annual meeting of the American Society of Health Economists. This week health economist Sayeh Nikpay gives us a sneak peek at some of the most exciting papers coming out of this conference.
Guest:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, MPH, Tradeoffs Senior Research Advisor; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Links to more info on the studies mentioned in today's episode:
- Thomas Thivillion on gas cooking subsidies
- Mark Meiselbach and Jean Abraham on minimum wage laws
- Manasvini Singh and Stephen Schwab on how power shapes patient care in the military care
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on a burned out workforce. But there are also concerns that these powerful new tools will perpetuate biases and inequities long baked into our health care system.
In Part 2 of our special series on racial bias in health care AI, we dig into what the Biden administration is doing to keep biased algorithms from getting to the bedside.
Guests:
Emily Sterrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Improvement Science, Duke University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, Population Health & Data Science Lead, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
Minerva Tantoco, Chief AI Officer, New York University McSilver Institute for Poverty, Policy and Research
Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Kathryn Marchesini, JD, Chief Privacy Officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Melanie Fontes Rainer, JD, Director, HHS Office for Civil Rights
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on a burned out workforce. But there are also concerns that these powerful new tools will perpetuate biases and inequities long baked into our health care system.
In the first of two back-to-back episodes on racial bias in health care AI, we explore the challenge of diagnosing bias in AI and what one health system is trying to do about it.
Guests:
Emily Sterrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Improvement Science, Duke University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, Population Health & Data Science Lead, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
Ganga Moorthy, MD, Global Health Fellow, Duke Pediatric Infectious Disease Program
Paige Nong, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan School of Public Health
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Black Americans are at higher risk for many serious illnesses like dementia and kidney failure. But data show they are less likely to have their pain treated and less likely to access services like hospice and palliative care that can reduce suffering, especially at the end of life.
This week, we explore what stops seriously ill Black patients and their families from getting the care they want in life and in death.
Guests:
Deborah Brunson, PhD, Caregiver and Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW, Professor, Boston College School of Social Work
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Every year, 100,000 Americans — mostly teens and young adults — experience their first psychotic episode. Research shows getting specialized, holistic treatment early can help, but most people don’t get that care. KQED’s April Dembosky shares her reporting on why early treatment for psychosis can be so hard to get.
Guest
April Dembosky, Health Correspondent, KQED News
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Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups.
This week, we explain an old policy gathering new steam in Washington, how it could save Medicare and patients billions of dollars a year, and why it has hospitals worried.
Guests:
Loren Adler, MS, Fellow and Associate Director, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
Joe Antos, PhD, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Hannah Neprash, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Ashley Thompson, MHA, Senior Vice President, American Hospital Association
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Just like the rest of us, when clinicians are short on time and overwhelmed by complex decisions, their brains look for corners to cut, numbers to round, patterns to repeat. This week, Dan talks with Harvard physician and economist Bapu Jena about the surprising impact these mental shortcuts, known as cognitive biases, can have on our health care.
Guest:
Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
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A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But they’re also raising difficult questions. This week, we talk with STAT reporter Elaine Chen about how these breakthrough treatments are changing how we view and treat obesity.
Guest:
Elaine Chen, Cardiovascular Disease Reporter, STAT
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About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, access and inequity issues.
This week, we look at a federal experiment revamping Medicare's hospice policy, and how it could ultimately change the way millions of people die.
Guests:
Vince Mor, PhD, Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University
Bethany Snider, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Hosparus Health
David Stevenson, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer, Tradeoffs
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The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has targeted the ACA before, jeopardizes a provision in the law that gives 150 million Americans access to free preventive care for conditions like HIV and cancer.
Guest:
Nicholas Bagley, JD, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
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We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.
Guests:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, Tradeoffs Senior Research Advisor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
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The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital care. This week, we look at what we’ve learned from the hospital-at-home explosion and questions about home-based care remain unanswered.
Guests:
Bruce Leff, MD, Director, The Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Johns Hopkins
David and Melanie Mercurio
Constantinos “Taki” Michaelidis, MD, Medical Director, Hospital at Home Program, UMass Memorial Health
Michelle Mahon, RN, Assistant Director of Nursing Practice, National Nurses United
Nathan Starr, DO, Medical Director for Home Services, Castell; Director of Telehospitalist Program, Intermountain Healthcare
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Even though more Americans than ever have health insurance, medical debt is a pervasive problem in the United States.
Guests:
Noam Levey, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
Wesley Yin, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics, UCLA
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Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans.
This week, reporter Alice Miranda Ollstein introduces us to a Republican lawmaker pushing to add exceptions to the ban he helped pass, and we consider how well exceptions work - or don't - in practice.
Guests:
Alice Miranda Ollstein, Health Care Reporter, Politico
State Sen. Richard Briggs, MD, Tennessee General Assembly
Yarnell Beatty, JD, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Tennessee Medical Association
Will Brewer, JD, Director of Government Relations, Tennessee Right to Life
Katrina Kimport, PhD, Associate Professor, ANSIRH, University of California San Francisco
Katie May
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Guest:
Soleil Shah, Research Reporter, Tradeoffs
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Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This week, we talk with Farah Yousry about the potential consequences of this decision.
Guests:
Farah Yousry, Health Equity Reporter, Side Effects Public Media
Susie Talevski, patient
Chris Schandevel, Senior Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom
Jane Perkins, Litigation Director, National Health Law Program
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People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to solidly red Utah think bringing Medicaid behind bars could help.
Guests:
Lee Reed
Shira Shavit, MD, Executive Director, Transitions Clinic Network
Jacey Cooper, Director, California Medicaid Program
Cindy Beane, MSW, LCSW, Commissioner, West Virginia Bureau of Medical Services
Amy Katzen, JD, MPP, Director of Policy and Strategy, Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Mike Levine, Medicaid Director, MassHealth
Dana Flannery, Former Senior Policy Advisor, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Khalil Cumberbatch, MSW, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Council on Criminal Justice
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Medicare’s historic plan to slow prescription drug spending is taking shape. Last Thursday federal health officials began detailing how one of two major drug price reforms contained in the Inflation Reduction Act will work and who it will affect.
This week, we talk with Medicare director Meena Seshamani about the “opportunity of a lifetime” to put these unprecedented policies into action.
Guest:
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Medicare and Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive way - by holding hospitals and insurance companies accountable for high spending. In this episode we look to see if any of those efforts have bent the cost curve.
Guests:
Leemore Dafny, PhD, Harvard University economist
Michael Bailit, MBA President and Founder Bailit Health
David Seltz, Executive Director Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
Amy Rosenthal, MPH, MPA Executive Director Health Care For All
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Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from maternal mortality to life expectancy. What if improving health literacy and demystifying health information could be the part of the solution?
This week, one doctor’s crusade to help more people understand their own health care and why insurers are starting to buy in.
Guests:
Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA, Founder and CEO, Grapevine Health
Keith Maccannon, Director of Marketing, Outreach and Community Relations, AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia
Yvonne Smith, Grapevine Client
Karen Dale, RN, MSN, Market President, AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia
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Popping into the feed with a bit of breaking news on a story we've been reporting on for months: For the first time ever, some people incarcerated in jail or prison will have access to Medicaid. We'll have a full episode on this dramatic policy change in February.
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After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market they dominate sales and deliver big savings. But Humira’s competitors, known as biosimilars, aren’t like most other generics.
This week, what makes this prescription drug showdown so unusual – and so important.
Guest:
Marta Wosińska, PhD, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
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A congressional ban on removing anyone from Medicaid will expire early next year. What will happen to people who lose their coverage, and how are states preparing for this unprecedented undertaking?
Guests:
Elizabeth Nash, Principle Policy Associate, State Issues
Cindy Mann, Partner, Manatt Health
Rachel Cohrs, Washington Correspondent, STAT
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We've got a lot to share with you in 2023!
We're looking into what might happen to the marketplace as Humira, the best selling prescription drug in history, goes generic; and profile a woman pioneering a new strategy to help people better manage their own health, a strategy that has insurance companies whispering.
The FDA has approved another controversial Alzheimer’s drug, Medicare is gearing up to negotiate drug prices, millions of Americans could lose their Medicaid…and, of course, abortion. Tradeoffs is here to take you through the health care year ahead. We’ll explore the policies and programs, and we’ll introduce you to the people whose lives they shape.
New episodes start 19 January, 2023!
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There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse. Could providing long-term care workers with new career pathways be part of the solution?
Guests:
Serena Maria, Manager of Care Teams, Homebridge
Mark Burns, Executive Director, Homebridge
Natasha Bryant, Senior Director of Workforce Research and Strategy, LeadingAge LTSS Center at UMass Boston
Jonathan Gruber, PhD, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT
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California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving their health. This week, we trace the origins, early results and challenges of “CalAIM.”
Guests:
Jacey Cooper, Director, California Medicaid Program
Bradley Gilbert, MD, MPP, Former Chief Medical Officer and CEO, Inland Empire Health Plan
Lacy McClellan
Dale Stout
Anthony Wright, Executive Director, Health Access California
Paula Lantz, PhD, James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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The Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers to control prescription drug prices. We go inside the government’s race to implement these new powers — and the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to blunt their impact.
Guests:
Alice Valder Curran, JD, Partner, Hogan Lovells
Sean Dickson, JD, MPH, Director of Health Policy, West Health Policy Center
Amber Jessup, PhD, Chief Economist, Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services
Mark Newsom, Founder and Principal, Health Evaluations
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Independent abortion funds have been flooded with donations since Roe v. Wade was overturned. How do these funds work and what role will they play in a post-Roe world?
Guests:
Brittany Mostiller, Leadership Development Coordinator, National Network of Abortion Funds
Gretchen Ely, PhD, MSW, Director of PhD Program, University of Tennessee College of Social Work
Kim Floren, Director, Justice Through Empowerment Network
Erin Smith, Executive Director, Kentucky Justice Health Network
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The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggest will happen to people who are denied abortions in a post-Roe world.
Guests:
Diana Foster Green, director of research at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health
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Our annual look back at some of the best health care podcast episodes of the year with help from a few of our podcast host friends.
Guests:
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Policymaker in Residence, University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and host of America Dissected
Keris Myrick, Vice President of Partnerships, Inseparable and host of Unapologetically Black Unicorn
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More than $50 billion in opioid settlement dollars from drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies is starting to flow to state and local governments and they need to figure out how to spend it.
Guests:
Dave Baker, Minnesota State Representative and chair of the state’s Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council
Sara Whaley, Opioid Policy Researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @saraewhaley
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Black Americans are at higher risk for many serious illnesses like dementia and kidney failure. But data show they are less likely to have their pain treated and less likely to access services like hospice and palliative care that can reduce suffering, especially at the end of life.
This week, we explore what stops seriously ill Black patients and their families from getting the care they want in life and in death.
Guests:
Deborah Brunson, PhD, Caregiver and Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW, Professor, Boston College School of Social Work
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Even though more Americans than ever have health insurance, medical debt is a pervasive problem in the United States.
Guests:
Noam Levey, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
Wesley Yin, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics, UCLA
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An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.
Guests
Therese Humphrey Ball, Multiple sclerosis patient and advocate.
Juliette Cubanski, Deputy Director for Program on Medicare Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse. Could providing long-term care workers with new career pathways be part of the solution?
Guests:
Serena Maria, Manager of Care Teams, Homebridge
Mark Burns, Executive Director, Homebridge
Natasha Bryant, Senior Director of Workforce Research and Strategy, LeadingAge LTSS Center at UMass Boston
Jonathan Gruber, PhD, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT
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Early in the pandemic, state officials unleashed a flood of emergency orders relaxing the rules that limit the care each health profession can provide. Now these temporary measures are expiring and health professionals from pharmacists to physician assistants are jockeying to shape the next wave of workforce reforms.
Guests:
Susanna Storeng, DMSc, PA-C, Physician Assistant, High Plains Community Health Center
Bianca Frogner, PhD, Professor and Director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington
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Starting Oct. 6, providers must begin giving patients electronic access to more of their health care data than ever before. But the federal regulations forcing this change are fraught with implementation challenges and privacy risks.
This week we talk with Micky Tripathi, the federal official overseeing this push to democratize America’s health data, about its promise and perils.
Guest
Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Initial screenings for breast, lung and cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.
Guests:
Mark Fendrick, MD, Professor of Medicine and public health at the University of Michigan, Director of the Center for Value Based Insurance Design.
Gloria Coronado, PhD, epidemiologist and health disparities researcher, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
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California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving their health. This week, we trace the origins, early results and challenges of “CalAIM.”
Guests:
Jacey Cooper, Director, California Medicaid Program
Bradley Gilbert, MD, MPP, Former Chief Medical Officer and CEO, Inland Empire Health Plan
Lacy McClellan
Dale Stout
Anthony Wright, Executive Director, Health Access California
Paula Lantz, PhD, James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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This week, we’re sharing the first episode of a new 10-part series from The Nocturnists podcast, called “Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest.”
What is shame? And how does it manifest in medical culture? The Nocturnists teams up with two shame experts to investigate these questions.
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The Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers to control prescription drug prices. We go inside the government’s race to implement these new powers — and the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to blunt their impact.
Guests:
Alice Valder Curran, JD, Partner, Hogan Lovells
Sean Dickson, JD, MPH, Director of Health Policy, West Health Policy Center
Amber Jessup, PhD, Chief Economist, Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services
Mark Newsom, Founder and Principal, Health Evaluations
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The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
Guests:
Liana Wolk, teacher
Owen Marshall, musician
Katie Keith, JD, MPH; Director, Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O’Neill Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old idea to care for homeless people who are too healthy to be in the hospital, but too sick to be on the streets?
Guests:
Henry Jones, former medical respite patient
Janelle Goetcheus, MD, Founder and Medical Director, Christ House
Julia Dobbins, MSW, Director of Medical Respite, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Jack Kline, LICSW, LCSW-C, Former Executive Program Director, Hope Has A Home
Karyn Wills, MD, Chief Medical Officer, CareFirst Blue Cross Community Health Plan, DC
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Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.
Guests:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, Tradeoffs Contributing Research Editor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
Kathleen Adams, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Allan Baumgarten, JD, Independent Health Policy Analyst
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate change, how some hospitals are trying to reduce their carbon footprint and what more needs to be done.
Guest:
Gary Cohen, co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm
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The overdose crisis in the U.S. is as deadly as it’s ever been. In response, the Biden administration is embracing a controversial strategy known as harm reduction, which seeks to keep drug users safe even as they continue using. We explore how harm reduction has become more mainstream and what kind of impact we can expect it to have on the overdose crisis.
Guests:
Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, Associate Dean for Social Justice; Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Keith Humphreys, PhD, Esther Ting Memorial Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Services, Stanford University
Beau Kilmer, PhD, Director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center
Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Maia Szalavitz, Journalist and Author, Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
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We explore the impacts of charging Medicaid enrollees premiums and how phasing out premiums may affect Montana's Medicaid expansion program.
Guests:
Katharine Bradley, Principal Researcher, Mathematica
Heather O'Loughlin, Co-Director, Montana Budget & Policy Center
Ed Buttrey, State Representative, Montana
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Independent abortion funds have been flooded with donations since Roe v. Wade was overturned. How do these funds work and what role will they play in a post-Roe world?
Guests:
Brittany Mostiller, Leadership Development Coordinator, National Network of Abortion Funds
Gretchen Ely, PhD, MSW, Director of PhD Program, University of Tennessee College of Social Work
Kim Floren, Director, Justice Through Empowerment Network
Erin Smith, Executive Director, Kentucky Justice Health Network
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To mark the launch date of 988, America's new mental health crisis line, we're sharing a segment from The Takeaway, a public radio show and podcast produced by WNYC Studios and PRX, featuring Tradeoffs host Dan Gorenstein talking about our reporting on 988.
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In Part 3 of our special series on 988, we go on the ground to hear from individuals working in their communities to prepare for America’s new mental health crisis line to go live.
Guests:
Natalie Krebs, Health reporter, Iowa Public Radio
Emily Blomme, Chief Executive Officer, Foundation 2 Crisis Services
Christine Herman, Managing editor, Side Effects Public Media
Mike Sunseri, Deputy Executive Director, Kentucky Office of Homeland Security
Carter Barrett, Reporter, Side Effects Public Media
Benjamin Kowalczyk, Living Room patient
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 can learn from 911.
Learn more about how 988 came to be, what’s at stake and what it will take to succeed in the first episode in our series.
Guests:
Rebecca Neusteter, PhD, Executive Director, Health Lab, University of Chicago
Rita Salazar, 911 call-taker, Valley Communications Center
Michelle Lilly, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Northern Illinois University
Jennifer Battle, MSW, Director of Access, Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD Services
Lata Menon, MSW, CEO, First Choice Services
Courtney Colwell, 988 Program Manager, Volunteers of America Western Washington
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Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for this new nationwide hotline to meet the needs of millions of people struggling with suicide, addiction and mental illness.
Guests:
Andrea Harrison, Helpline Specialist, First Choice Services
Madhuri Jha, LCSW, MPH, Director, Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity, Morehouse School of Medicine
Ben Miller, PsyD, President, Well Being Trust
Hannah Wesolowski, MPA, Chief Advocacy Officer, National Alliance on Mental Illness
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Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health policies in the country?
Guests:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, Tradeoffs Contributing Research Editor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
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The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggest will happen to people who are denied abortions in a post-Roe world.
Guests:
Diana Foster Green, director of research at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health
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A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing. Michigan is one of more than 20 states poised to ban abortion if Roe v. Wade falls. Politico’s Alice Miranda Ollstein speaks with one woman who got an illegal abortion in Michigan and outlines the political levers state leaders have to to preserve abortion rights.
Guests:
Alice Miranda Ollstein, health care reporter, POLITICO
Renee Chelian, Executive Director, Northland Family Planning Centers
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How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medical supply chain.
Guests:
Kierstin Kennedy, Chief Medical Officer, University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital
Erin Fox, Senior Pharmacy Director, University of Utah Health
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We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician's desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
Guests:
Meredith Niess, MD, MPH, Clinical Academic Resource Director, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Novant Health
Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Cheryl Damberg, PhD, MPH, Principal Senior Economist and Director, RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance
Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Chief Innovation Officer, SCAN Health Plan
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 can learn from 911.
Learn more about how 988 came to be, what’s at stake and what it will take to succeed in the first episode in our series.
Guests:
Rebecca Neusteter, PhD, Executive Director, Health Lab, University of Chicago
Rita Salazar, 911 call-taker, Valley Communications Center
Michelle Lilly, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Northern Illinois University
Jennifer Battle, MSW, Director of Access, Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD Services
Lata Menon, MSW, CEO, First Choice Services
Courtney Colwell, 988 Program Manager, Volunteers of America Western Washington
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregnant people may have.
Guests:
Stacey Roussel, Deputy Director, Louisiana Budget Project
Frankie Robertson, Founder & President, The Amandla Group
Usha Ranji, Associate Director for Women’s Health Policy at Kaiser Family Foundation
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The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
Guests:
Liana Wolk, teacher
Owen Marshall, musician
Katie Keith, JD, MPH; Director, Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O’Neill Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Medical education is in the midst of a revolution. Students and educators want their education ingrained in antiracism and hope that by acknowledging and teaching about bias and systemic discrimination in the medical field, the next generation of doctors will be better equipped to dismantle racism within health care. STAT's “Color Code” takes a look at the groundswell of antiracism work in medicine and medical education, and explores the backlash these endeavors have received, which span from institutional repercussions to protests from hate groups
Guests:
Jerrel Catlett: An MD/PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Rebecca Zhou: A peer in medical school at Mt. Sinai.
Jennifer Dias: An MD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Michelle Morse: Chief Medical Officer of the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Aysha Khoury: Assistant Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine.
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We talk with a Michigan OB-GYN determined to make sure her hospital is ready if abortion becomes illegal in her state.
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Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old idea to care for homeless people who are too healthy to be in the hospital, but too sick to be on the streets?
Guests:
Henry Jones, former medical respite patient
Janelle Goetcheus, MD, Founder and Medical Director, Christ House
Julia Dobbins, MSW, Director of Medical Respite, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Jack Kline, LICSW, LCSW-C, Former Executive Program Director, Hope Has A Home
Karyn Wills, MD, Chief Medical Officer, CareFirst Blue Cross Community Health Plan, DC
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We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.
Guest:
Bram Sable-Smith, Midwest Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the nation to reexamine how to balance the needs of desperate patients, incomplete evidence and larger economic realities.
Guests:
Phil Gutis, Alzheimer’s patient and advocate
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBe, John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
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An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
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Lindsay Ryan, MD, San Francisco VA Medical Center
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America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s biggest employers. What could go wrong?
Join us for a wild, wonky journey into the world of third-party administrators.
Guests:
Christin Deacon, JD, Senior Vice President, 4C Health Solutions; former Assistant Director, Division of Pension & Benefits, New Jersey Department of Treasury
Brian Hufford, JD, Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Ken Janda, JD, Founder, Wild Blue Health Solutions; Adjunct Professor, University of Houston College of Medicine
Sandy Peters, retiree
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate change, how some hospitals are trying to reduce their carbon footprint and what more needs to be done.
NOTE: This episode has been updated to clarify Practice Greenhealth's operating model.
Guest:
Gary Cohen, co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm
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We explore the impacts of charging Medicaid enrollees premiums and how phasing out premiums may affect Montana's Medicaid expansion program.
Guests:
Katharine Bradley, Principal Researcher, Mathematica
Heather O'Loughlin, Co-Director, Montana Budget & Policy Center
Ed Buttrey, State Representative, Montana
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Jails and prisons are one of the few places in the United States where health care is a right. But for many incarcerated people, that care often falls short. This is the story one of those people: Princola Shields.
This episode was originally produced for the podcast Sick, a production of Side Effects Public Media.
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We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician's desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
Guests:
Meredith Niess, MD, MPH, Clinical Academic Resource Director, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Novant Health
Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Cheryl Damberg, PhD, MPH, Principal Senior Economist and Director, RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance
Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Chief Innovation Officer, SCAN Health Plan
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As Peter Lee prepares to step down after a decade of running California's Obamacare exchange, he reflects on his experience, the strengths and weaknesses of the Affordable Care Act, and what the next frontier for health care should be in the U.S.
Guest:
Peter Lee, Executive Director, Covered California
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Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. This is one of those years, and Congress has to pass the latest user fee agreements by the end of September to keep FDA running. We break down this controversial process and what other health policies could pass in its wake.
Guest:
Sarah Karlin-Smith, Senior Writer, Pink Sheet
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This week, a pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.
Guest:
Kelly Kent, RPh, PharmD, pharmacist and chief operating officer, Towncrest Pharmacy.
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Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for this new nationwide hotline to meet the needs of millions of people struggling with suicide, addiction and mental illness.
Guests:
Andrea Harrison, Helpline Specialist, First Choice Services
Madhuri Jha, LCSW, MPH, Director, Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity, Morehouse School of Medicine
Ben Miller, PsyD, President, Well Being Trust
Hannah Wesolowski, MPA, Chief Advocacy Officer, National Alliance on Mental Illness
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The overdose crisis in the U.S. is as deadly as it’s ever been. In response, the Biden administration is embracing a controversial strategy known as harm reduction, which seeks to keep drug users safe even as they continue using. We explore how harm reduction has become more mainstream and what kind of impact we can expect it to have on the overdose crisis.
Guests:
Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, Associate Dean for Social Justice; Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Keith Humphreys, PhD, Esther Ting Memorial Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Services, Stanford University
Beau Kilmer, PhD, Director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center
Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Maia Szalavitz, Journalist and Author, Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
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Last week, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new Alzheimer’s disease treatment in nearly 20 years. We talk with a doctor, a patient and a former federal official about this unusual move and its wide-ranging implications.
Guests:
Jay Reinstein, Alzheimer’s disease patient and advocate
Sharon Sha, MD, MS, Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
Sean Tunis, MD, MSc, Senior Fellow, Tufts Center for Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, former FDA advisor and former CMS official
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We've got a lot to share with you in 2022!
We're looking into new strategies to battle overdose deaths; the unfolding saga of the new Alzheimer's drug; and the rollout of a new national hotline for mental health emergencies.
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A young woman living with cerebral palsy shares the struggles, fears and silver linings she’s experienced during the pandemic.
Guest: Jeiri Flores, disability rights advocate
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As gun violence surges, researchers are using new federal funding to search for solutions.
Emmy Betz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, University of Colorado
Jonathan Jay, DrPH, JD, Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University
Autumn Parkin, gun owner and advocate
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Health care has long lagged behind other industries when it comes to cybersecurity. But with ransomware attacks against the industry on the rise, providers are quickly trying to close the gap and protect their systems and patients.
Guests:
Karen Sprenger, CISSP, GCFE, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Ransomware Negotiator, LMG Security
M. Eric Johnson, PhD, Ralph Owen Dean and Bruce D. Henderson Professor of Strategy, Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
Anahi Santiago, Chief Information Security Officer, ChristianaCare
Saad Chaudhry, MPP, Chief Information Officer, Luminis Health
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Like Tradeoffs, An Arm and a Leg tells stories about our complicated health care system. Host Dan Weissmann tells the story of an engineer, who worked for Boeing for over 30 years. When he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, he needed surgery but his insurance denied the claim. That’s when his wife called Laurie Todd, the Insurance Warrior.
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We look back on some of the best health policy podcast episodes of the year with help from a few of our podcast host friends.
Guests:
Dr. Bapu Jean, host, Freakonomics, MD
Kimberly Seals-Allers, host, Birthright
Maiken Scott, host, The Pulse, WHYY
Dr. Celine Gounder, host, American Diagnosis and Epidemic
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Produced weekly by Politico, the Playbook Deep Dive podcast tells the stories behind the power, from Congress and the White House to bar stools and back rooms. This episode, considers what it means to be the nation’s second Catholic president. Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza talks with senior staff writer Ruby Cramer about how Joe Biden balances a very public role with the “private matter” of his faith at a time of deep division over abortion, and among the bishops in his own church.
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COVID opened the door to treating addiction remotely. Now policymakers have to decide whether to keep telehealth around.
Guests:
Allie Grant, patient
Sarah Channell, MSN, APRN, CNP; Clinical Director of Addiction Services; Lower Lights Christian Health Center
Allison Lin, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Addiction Center; Research Scientist, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
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Democrats are on the brink of passing a historic set of drug price reforms as part of the Build Back Better Act. How will they impact patients, insurers and the drug industry?
Guest:
Rachel Sachs, JD, Treiman Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
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Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.
Guests:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, Tradeoffs Contributing Research Editor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
Kathleen Adams, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Allan Baumgarten, JD, Independent Health Policy Analyst
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It’s Medicare open enrollment — the one chance each year that all 62 million beneficiaries have to shop for better coverage. But choosing a new plan is much harder and riskier than it seems.
Guests:
Lilyan Grossman, Medicare beneficiary
Tricia Neuman, ScD, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the Program on Medicare Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
Amal Trivedi, MD, Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University
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President Biden wanted to spend $400 billion to help older and disabled Americans get health care at home, but the proposal has been cut by more than half as Democrats work to pare back their $3.5 trillion spending package. [This episode was originally published on April 8, 2021.]
Guests:
Howard Gleckman, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania
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The pandemic has pushed hundreds of public health officials to leave their jobs. It's also inspired thousands to pursue a career in public health. We listen in on a conversation between two women pushed in different directions by the pandemic.
Guests:
Jen Miller, RN, Former Communicable Disease Nurse Consultant, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
Nicole Snyder, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Davidson College; MPH Candidate, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina
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Congressional Democrats’ blockbuster spending bill could include some historic health reforms, but major political hurdles remain. Reporter Alice Miranda Ollstein joins us to discuss the tough health policy compromises facing Democratic lawmakers.
Guest:
Alice Miranda Ollstein, health care reporter, POLITICO
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U.S. hospitals are facing a nursing crisis, but experts say it's not as bad as the nationwide shortage of the early 2000s. We talk with two experts about what needs to be done to prevent the current crisis from getting worse.
Guests:
Peter Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN; Professor, Montana State University College of Nursing; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
Karen Lasater, PhD, RN; Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
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America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s biggest employers. What could go wrong?
Join us for a wild, wonky journey into the world of third-party administrators.
Guests:
Christin Deacon, JD, Senior Vice President, 4C Health Solutions; former Assistant Director, Division of Pension & Benefits, New Jersey Department of Treasury
Brian Hufford, JD, Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Ken Janda, JD, Founder, Wild Blue Health Solutions; Adjunct Professor, University of Houston College of Medicine
Sandy Peters, retiree
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As President Biden ups the pressure on businesses to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for their employees, we talk with a preschool owner wrestling with the decision and a researcher with tips on how to make a mandate work.
Guests:
Lesia Daniel-Hollingshead, Co-owner, Funtime Clinton
Ashley Ritter, APRN, PhD; Director of Clinical Care Research, NewCourtland; Adjunct Assistant Professor, NewCourtland Center for Transitions in Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing; CEO, Dear Pandemic
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The Supreme Court just declined to block a controversial abortion ban in Texas. Now an even bigger case looms on their docket, and it could dramatically alter abortion access across the U.S.
Guests:
- Laurie Sobel, JD, Associate Director, Women’s Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
- Alina Salganicoff, PhD, Senior Vice President and Director of Women’s Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
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Kids are returning to in-person school this fall with increased rates of depression, anxiety and other pandemic-fueled mental health challenges, and schools are leaning on billions in new federal funding to meet the growing need.
Guests:
Kyron Harvell, Principal, Vivian Riddle Elementary School; Lansing, Michigan
Sharon Hoover, PhD, Co-Director, National Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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New national guidelines say millions more Americans should get screened for lung cancer. The test can save lives, but it's inaccessible to many and harmful to some. How should we balance the promise and perils of lung cancer screening?
Guests:
Otis Brawley, MD, Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lisa Carter-Harris, PhD, APRN, Behavioral Scientist and Adult Nurse Practitioner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cherie Erkmen, MD, Professor of Thoracic Surgery and Director, Lung Cancer Screening Program, Temple University
Ella Kazerooni, MD, Professor of Radiology, University of Michigan
Ida Pittman, lung cancer patient, Temple University Hospital
Helena Price, Ida’s cousin and health care advocate
Gerard Silvestri, MD, Professor of Pulmonology, Medical University of South Carolina
Dig deeper into the research and tradeoffs of lung cancer screening on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/05/27/catching-americas-top-cancer-killer/
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With more employers requiring their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, we dig into the research to help employers weigh the pros and cons. [This episode was originally published on May 20, 2021.]
Guests:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD; Tradeoffs Contributing Research Editor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
Corey White, PhD; Assistant Professor of Economics; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Brandyn Churchill, PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University
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One of the hardest things about being healthcare workers going through this pandemic is that we've both experienced and borne witness to moments that nobody should have to go through alone. Who do we need by our side when everything falls apart? And what do we do when they can’t be there?
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Hosted by Maiken Scott and aired weekly on WHYY and other NPR member stations, The Pulse tells stories at the heart of health, science and innovation. This particular Pulse story, reported by Alan Yu and Nina Feldman, looks at a crisis of maternity ward closures that recently hit the city of Philadelphia, and the surprising alliances and unexpected outcomes that it catalyzed.
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Health care has long lagged behind other industries when it comes to cybersecurity. But with ransomware attacks against the industry on the rise, providers are quickly trying to close the gap and protect their systems and patients.
Guests:
Karen Sprenger, CISSP, GCFE, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Ransomware Negotiator, LMG Security
M. Eric Johnson, PhD, Ralph Owen Dean and Bruce D. Henderson Professor of Strategy, Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
Anahi Santiago, Chief Information Security Officer, ChristianaCare
Saad Chaudhry, MPP, Chief Information Officer, Luminis Health
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As gun violence continues to soar in U.S. cities, one violence prevention specialist tries to stem the tide of homicides in his hometown.
Guest: James "JT" Timpson, Director for Community Partnerships and Safety, Roca Maryland and Roca Impact Institute
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A young woman living with cerebral palsy shares the struggles, fears and silver linings she’s experienced during the pandemic.
Guest: Jeiri Flores, disability rights advocate
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A congressional ban on removing anyone from Medicaid is likely to expire early next year. What will happen to people who lose their coverage, and how are states preparing for this unprecedented undertaking?
Guests:
Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University
Jami Snyder, Director, AHCCCS
Dave Richard, Deputy Secretary, North Carolina Medicaid
Read a full transcript and see which states are working ahead to prepare for the end of the public health emergency and state-by-state estimates of how many people could lose coverage on our website: Dig deeper into the issues explored in today's episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/07/08/why-millions-could-lose-medicaid-next-year/
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Many cities across the United States are rethinking the role of police in responding to mental health emergencies. Miami-Dade County has spent the last two decades revamping their policing — along with many other aspects of how their criminal justice system treats people in crisis. What lessons have they learned?
Guests:
Steve Leifman, JD, Associate Administrative Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida; Founder, Miami-Dade County Criminal Mental Health Project
Carol Caraballo, MSW, MPA, LCSW, Vice President of Behavioral Health Services, Thriving Mind South Florida
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How is the pharmaceutical industry reacting to the FDA’s surprising approval of a controversial Alzheimer’s drug, and what do they make of its $56,000 price tag?
This is the last episode in our weeklong series examining the potentially sweeping consequences this drug, known as aducanumab, could have on millions of patients’ lives and billions of dollars in health care spending.
Guest:
Luke Timmerman, Journalist/Founder, Timmerman Report
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A controversial new $56,000 Alzheimer’s drug could wreak financial havoc on insurers, seniors and taxpayers.
This episode is part of a special weeklong series examining the potentially sweeping consequences this drug, known as aducanumab, could have on millions of patients’ lives and billions of dollars in health care spending.
Guest:
Mark Miller, PhD, Executive Vice President for Health Care, Arnold Ventures
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Desperate to slow her cognitive decline, one patient shares her hopes and concerns about the first new Alzheimer’s drug in nearly 20 years.
This episode is part of a special weeklong series examining the potentially sweeping consequences this drug, known as aducanumab, could have on millions of patients’ lives and billions of dollars in health care spending.
Guest: Arthena Caston, Alzheimer’s patient and advocate
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A costly, controversial new Alzheimer’s drug is sending shockwaves through the U.S. health care system. How are doctors grappling with questions about its safety and efficacy? This is the first episode in a special conversation series featuring different people reckoning with the potentially sweeping consequences this drug could have on millions of patients’ lives and billions of dollars in health care spending.
Guest: Winston Chiong, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
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Health policy experts are kicking off the summer with back-to-back conferences: AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting and the 10th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon). Hop on the Tradeoffs Tours bus for conference tips, stories and exciting research with a conference veteran, Kosali Simon.
Guest: Kosali Simon, PhD, Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor, Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences; Indiana University
Find links to the conferences' full agendas and an episode transcript on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/06/17/babies-boats-abstracts-an-insiders-guide-to-health-policy-conferences/
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The pandemic forced dentists across the country to shut down last spring. We talk with one dentist about what that meant for her business, her patients, and what it’s been like to open back up.
Guest: Stacey Van Scoyoc, DDS, General Dentist, Co-Owner, Bloomington Family Dental
Find additional resources and a full transcript of today's episode on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/06/10/drilling-into-a-dentists-covid-roller-coaster-ride/
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration faces a costly and consequential decision over whether to approve a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug.
Guest:
Caleb Alexander, Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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New national guidelines say millions more Americans should get screened for lung cancer. The test can save lives, but it's inaccessible to many and harmful to some. How should we balance the promise and perils of lung cancer screening?
Guests:
Otis Brawley, MD, Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lisa Carter-Harris, PhD, APRN, Behavioral Scientist and Adult Nurse Practitioner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cherie Erkmen, MD, Professor of Thoracic Surgery and Director, Lung Cancer Screening Program, Temple University
Ella Kazerooni, MD, Professor of Radiology, University of Michigan
Ida Pittman, lung cancer patient, Temple University Hospital
Helena Price, Ida’s cousin and health care advocate
Gerard Silvestri, MD, Professor of Pulmonology, Medical University of South Carolina
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With about one-third of Americans still not convinced they need to be vaccinated for COVID-19, many employers are debating whether to require their workers to get vaccinated. We dig into the research to help employers weigh the pros and cons.
Guests:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD; Tradeoffs Contributing Research Editor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
Corey White, PhD; Assistant Professor of Economics; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Brandyn Churchill, PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University
Learn more about Corey and Brandyn's research and the pros and cons of employer mandates on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/05/20/calling-the-shots-should-employers-mandate-covid-vaccines/
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In this special live episode, policy experts and employers debate the best way to improve the health insurance that 150 million Americans get through work. This session was part of “The Promise of Health Reform and a Public Option in a Biden Administration,” a virtual conference put on by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and United States of Care.
Guests:
Brian Blase, PhD, CEO, Blase Policy Strategies; Senior Fellow, Galen Institute; Senior Fellow, Foundation for Government Accountability
Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, MPH, Executive Director, Catalyst for Payment Reform
Allison Hoffman, JD, Professor of Law and LDI Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Shaundell Newsome, Founder, Sumnu Marketing; Co-Chair, Small Business for America’s Future
Sheila Savageau, U.S. Healthcare Leader, General Motors
Learn more about shortcomings of employer-based solution and the policies proposed in this episode on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/05/13/3-employers-2-wonks-and-1-health-insurance-mess/
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Racism against people of Asian descent is not a new problem, but it’s been exacerbated lately by politicians using racist rhetoric to describe the coronavirus. Asians in America are now facing a dual pandemic: a heightened fear of racist abuse, from verbal slurs to physical assault, on top of all the anxiety of living through COVID-19. A conversation from our colleagues at The Dose.
Guests:
Shanoor Servai, MPP, Researcher, Writer and Lead Podcast Producer; The Commonwealth Fund
Vivian Shaw, PhD, College Fellow, Department of Sociology at Harvard University; Lead Researcher, AAPI COVID-19 Project
Susanna Park, PhD Candidate in Global Health, Oregon State University
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Despite President Biden’s campaign promise to create a public option, the policy has been missing from his first 100 days in office. A handful of states, however, are forging ahead with public option legislation.
Guests:
Heather Howard, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Sabrina Corlette, JD, Georgetown University
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After nearly a decade of sky-high prices, generics have sent the price of the HIV prevention drug PrEP plummeting. What kept it so expensive for so long, and will the price drop help us finally eradicate HIV?
Guests:
Robin Feldman, Professor of Law, UC Hastings; Director of the Center for Innovation
Tahir Amin, Co-Executive Director, I-MAK
Oni Blackstock, MD, Primary care and HIV physician
Tim Horn, Director of Health Care Access, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
Craig Garthwaite, Director of Health Care, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univ.
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More than 130 hospitals have closed in rural America over the last decade. Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble spent a year embedded in one small Kansas town as they dealt with their own hospital closure.
Guest: Sarah Jane Tribble, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
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Hear more of Sarah Jane's reporting about Fort Scott on the first season of Where It Hurts: whereithurts.show
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President Biden wants to spend $400 billion to help older and disabled Americans get health care at home as part of his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, a huge investment in an often neglected part of the health care system.
Guests:
Howard Gleckman, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania
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As gun violence surges, researchers are using new federal funding to search for solutions.
Emmy Betz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, University of Colorado
Jonathan Jay, DrPH, JD, Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University
Autumn Parkin, gun owner and advocate
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We sit down with one of the top pandemic reporters in the country to answer to answer listener questions.
Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, Science and Global Health Reporter, New York Times
NOTE: This episode incorrectly states that more than 125 million people had received vaccinations at the time the episode aired. More than 125 million doses had been administered, but fewer than 90 million people had received at least one dose.
Read a full transcript of this episode on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/03/25/no-simple-answers-a-covid-qa-with-nyts-apoorva-mandavilli/
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One year ago, a community health center in Boston told us how COVID had wreaked havoc on their budget, staff and patient care. How are they doing now?
Guest:
Chuck Jones, MBA, President and CEO, Harbor Health
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The recently passed $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act includes a sweeping expansion of the child tax credit, a policy change that could protect millions of kids from poverty—and the health risks that come with it.
Guests:
Deborah Frank, MD, Founding Director of the Grow Clinic at Boston Medical Center (retired); Professor of Child Health and Well-Being (retired), Boston University School of Medicine; and Founder and Principal Investigator, Children’s HealthWatch
Juell Frazier, advocate and health services professional
Tara Hayes, MPP, Director of Human Welfare Policy, American Action Forum
Hilary Hoynes, PhD, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of California Berkeley
Chuck Marr, MBA, Senior Director of Federal Tax Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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White Americans are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at higher rates than Black and Latino people, even though communities of color have been hit hardest by the pandemic. We explore how Chicago is tackling this problem and what other city’s can learn from their efforts.
Guests:
Allison Arwady, MD, MPH, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health
James Rudyk, Executive Director, Northwest Side Housing Center
Vanessa Valentin, Community Relations Director, 36th Ward Alderman’s Office
Adriane Casalotti, Chief of Government and Public Affairs, National Association of County and City Health Officials
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At the end of 2020, Congress finally passed legislation protecting patients from surprise out-of-network medical bills. We dig into the research to understand what we can expect from this long-awaited policy fix.
Guests:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, Tradeoffs Contributing Research Editor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
Benjamin Chartock, Associate Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; PhD Candidate, Wharton School
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Employers are clashing with hospitals, insurers and even their own workers over high health care prices. We meet some of the businesses, unions and advocates on the frontlines of this battle that could determine the fate of employer-based insurance.
Listener warning: This episode does contain sensitive language
Guests:
Marilyn Bartlett, CPA, CMA, CFM, Senior Policy Fellow, National Academy for State Health Policy, and former administrator of Montana state employee health plan
Mike Chernew, PhD, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Will Haynes, 32BJ union member
Elizabeth Mitchell, CEO, Purchaser Business Group on Health
Sara Rothstein, Director, 32BJ Health Fund
Gloria Sachdev, PharmD, President and CEO, Employers’ Forum of Indiana
Rep. Donna Schaibley, Indiana House of Representatives
Candace Shaffer, Senior Director of Benefits, Purdue University
Bob Smith, MBA, Executive Director, Colorado Business Group on Health
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The U.S. health care system is full of wasteful spending. A group of top health economists say a bunch of small changes could save the country big money.
Guests:
Zack Cooper, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health and of Economics, Yale University
Mario Macis, PhD, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Fiona Scott Morton, PhD, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics, Yale University
Neale Mahoney, PhD, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Elizabeth Fowler, JD, PhD, Executive Vice President for Programs, Commonwealth Fund
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Doctors and nurses can feel as if they’re living in two worlds. One in which patients are getting sick and dying from the coronavirus, and another in which people deny the virus is real. Emergency room physician Mike Hunihan describes what it’s like to live and work with that dissonance.
Guest:
Michael Hunihan, M.D.
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Who is Xavier Becerra? We explore Becerra's health policy record, what drives his views and what he could do about the country's health care consolidation problem.
Guests:
Peter Lee, JD, Executive Director, Covered California
Richard Scheffler, PhD, Director, Nicholas C. Petris Center
Aditi Sen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lanhee Chen, PhD, David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institution
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Democrats are returning to the White House and the Senate majority with a long health policy to-do list. Reporter Jonathan Cohn says the battle over Obamacare offers lessons and clues as to where the party’s “unfinished crusade for universal coverage” may head next.
Guest: Jonathan Cohn, HuffPost senior national correspondent and author of "The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage"
You can find a complete transcript of this conversation on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/01/21/the-ten-year-war-over-obamacare/
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Nursing homes have been one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic. So why are so many nursing home workers hesitant to get vaccinated, and what can be done to turn those numbers around?
Guests: Tracey Couliboly, Director of Recreation, Jewish Home at Rockleigh
Carol Silver Elliott, CEO, Jewish Home at Rockleigh
Jasmine Travers, AGPCNP-BC CCRN, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Learn more about vaccine hesitancy in nursing homes and read a transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/01/14/we-need-you/
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2021 is shaping up to be a big year in health care: a new vaccine, new lawmakers with new policy agendas all over the country. Also on the horizon is a real reckoning with the health effects of racism, and a showdown between some of health care’s biggest players. Tradeoffs is here to take you through the health care year ahead. We’ll explore the policies and programs, and we’ll introduce you to the people whose lives they shape.
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New federal rules requiring hospitals to post their prices are set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. But will price transparency lower the cost of health care? [This episode was originally published on July 7, 2020.]
Guest: Margot Sanger-Katz, Health Care Reporter, New York Times
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Soaring numbers of Americans are feeling anxious, stressed and depressed. Could a reimagined approach to primary care help meet their needs? [This episode was originally published on July 28, 2020.]
Eboni Winford, PhD, Director of Research and Health Equity, Cherokee Health Systems
Parinda Khatri, PhD, Chief Clinical Officer, Cherokee Health Systems
Sandy Blount, EdD, Founding Director, Center for Integrated Primary Care, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Richard Frank, PhD, Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics, Harvard Medical School
Robert, Patient, Cherokee Health Systems
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In a surprise unanimous decision, the Supreme Court pushed back against the power of ERISA, a little known federal law that has stifled states’ attempts to regulate health care for decades. [NOTE: Part of this episode originally aired on Oct. 6]
Guest: Erin Fuse Brown, Associate Professor of Law; Director, Center for Law, Health & Society, Georgia State University
For a complete transcript of this conversation and more information on the case and ERISA: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/12/15/surprise-scotus-bucks-erisa/
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As medical interns step into their new roles as doctors, one resident gives us a window into her experiences in a COVID ICU. [This episode was originally published on July 30, 2020.]
Guest: Tamar Pounardjian, MD Resident, Brown Medical School, Internal Medicine Residency Program
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This summer, the Trump administration tried to roll back some federal protections for transgender patients. We look at the fight to secure health care for trans Americans and explore the extent to which policies designed to expand access have delivered on their promise. [This episode was originally published on July 14, 2020.]
Guests:
Kellan Baker, PhD, Centennial Scholar, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Melvin Whitehead, PhD, Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration, Binghamton University
Katie Keith, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
Taylor Brown, Staff Attorney, ACLU LGBT & HIV Project
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We look back on some of the best health policy podcast episodes of the year with help from a few of our podcast host friends.
Guests:
Julie Rovner, host, What the Health, Kaiser Health News
Dan Diamond, host, Pulse Check, Politico
Laura Carlson, host, Prognosis, Bloomberg
Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, host, Flip the Script
Alexandra Olgin, host, Gist Healthcare Daily, Gist Healthcare
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The Affordable Care Act is back in front of the Supreme Court. We explain the case and outline three ways this latest existential challenge to the law could end.
Guest: Katie Keith, JD, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law; Author of Health Affairs “Following the ACA” Blog
For more on the latest challenge to the ACA and a complete transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/11/05/oyez-oyez-aca/
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From restricting abortion to legalizing marijuana, voters are weighing in on a variety of significant state health policy questions this election.
(CORRECTION: An earlier version of this episode said Washington D.C. was considering “decriminalizing” psychoactive plants like mushrooms. They were in fact only considering effectively decriminalizing them by directing police to make enforcing laws related to this issue a low priority.)
Guest: Kathleen Hoke, JD, Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
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With COVID-19 again bearing down on U.S. hospitals, a team of military doctors and disaster preparedness experts are racing to build a system to deploy critical care providers anywhere in an instant.
Guests:
Col. Jeremy Pamplin, MD, Director, U.S. Army Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)
Ben Scott, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado
Doug Powell, MD, Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine, West Virginia University; and consultant to the Office of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Surgeon
Lt. Col. Chris Colombo, MD, Director of Virtual Health and Telecritical Care, Madigan Army Medical Center
Jeremy Kahn, MD, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Kristina Ieronimakis, RN, ICU Nurse, Madigan Army Medical Center
Lisa Lindgren, Vice President of Clinical Operations, Avera
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With communities of color disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, drugmakers and public health officials are placing an unprecedented emphasis on diversity in vaccine clinical trials.
Guests:
Beau Garland, Vice President of Recruitment, Meridian Clinical Research
Jonathan Jackson, PhD, Director, CARE Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital.
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The coronavirus pandemic forced public and private insurers to relax longstanding restrictions on telehealth, leading to a virtual care explosion. But how many of those changes are here to stay?
Guest: Chad Ellimoottil, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology and Director of the Telehealth Research Incubator at the University of Michigan
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While the coronavirus pandemic has sucked up all the oxygen, the opioid crisis continues to get worse.
Guest: Michael Barnett, Assistant Professor of Health Policy Management at Harvard School of Public Health; Primary Care Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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One of Medicare's trust funds is set to run out of money within the next four years, but we've heard almost nothing about it the campaign trail. We explore what would happen, how it got this bad, and what can be done to fix it.
Guest: Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
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In the second installment of our Research Corner segment, health economist Sayeh Nikpay discusses two research papers about picking health insurance plans: why we're bad at it and why so many uninsured Americans who are eligible for low cost plans don't sign up.
Featuring:
Sayeh Nikpay, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
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More than 130 hospitals have closed in rural America over the last decade. Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble spent a year embedded in one small Kansas town as they dealt with their own hospital closure.
Guest: Sarah Jane Tribble, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
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As the Supreme Court begins a new term, all eyes are on the ACA. But lurking in the wonky backwaters is another case with big implications for state health innovations and regulations.
Guest: Erin Fuse Brown, Associate Professor of Law; Director, Center for Law, Health & Society, Georgia State University
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Although health care consumed nearly one-third of the first presidential debate, the conversation left a lot to be desired. We asked a couple of experts to outline the key health policy questions they wish the candidates had covered.
Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Preeti Malani, MD, Chief Health Officer, University of Michigan
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The 2020 election was supposed to be all about health care. Then 2020 happened. We check the latest polling on voters' attitudes on health care this election season.
Guest: Ashley Kirzinger, Associate Director of Public Opinion and Survey Research, Kaiser Family Foundation
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We ask the experts about Biden's plans to increase COVID-19 testing, shore up PPE and supply chains, and institute a national mask mandate. The seventh and final episode in a special two-week series on health care and the presidential election, examining the health policy goals, actions and impacts of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Guests: Brooke Nichols, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University School of Public health
Nicolette Louissaint, PhD, Executive Director, Healthcare Ready
Leana Wen, MD, Emergency Physician and Public Health Professor, George Washington University
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Joe Biden has big plans to build on the Affordable Care Act. How close will they get us to universal coverage? The sixth episode in a special two-week series on health care and the presidential election, examining the health policy goals, actions and impacts of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Guest: Christine Eibner, PhD, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation
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What do experts think of President Trump’s response to COVID-19? And what do they think a second Trump term would mean for health policy? The fifth episode in a special two-week series on health care and the presidential election, examining the health policy goals, actions and impacts of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Guests: Ryan Levi, Producer, Tradeoffs
Lanhee Chen, PhD, David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institution
Brian Blase, PhD, Former Special Assistant to President Trump for Health Policy
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President Trump has pushed to limit access to abortion and contraception coverage. What impacts have those moves had? The fourth episode in a special two-week series on health care and the presidential election, examining the health policy goals, actions and impacts of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Guest: Maya Manian, JD, Visiting Professor, American University Washington College of Law
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Has President Trump made any lasting changes to the Medicaid program? The third episode in a special two-week series on health care and the presidential election, examining the health policy goals, actions and impacts of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Guest: Robin Rudowitz, Co-Director, Kaiser Family Foundation Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured
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Lowering prescription drug prices continues to be one of President Trump’s top goals. What has he actually accomplished so far? The second episode in a special two-week series on health care and the presidential election, examining the health policy goals, actions and impacts of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Guest: Ben Ippolito, PhD, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
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What impact have Donald Trump’s policies had on the Affordable Care Act and the way health insurance works in the U.S.? The first episode in a special two-week series on health care and the presidential election, examining the health policy goals, actions and impacts of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Guests: Brian Blase, PhD, Former Special Assistant to President Trump for Health Policy
Emily Gee, PhD, Health Economist, Center for American Progress
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The pandemic is exacerbating longstanding mental health issues among health care providers. In part two of our series, we examine why more doctors don’t seek help, and the costly consequences that distress can have.
Guests,
Mona Masood, MO, founder, Physician Support Line
Lotte Dyrbye, MD, MHPE, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
Katherine Gold, MD, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
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The pandemic is taking a toll on providers' mental health. Today, the first of a two-part series that begins with an ER doctor on the frontlines in Arizona.
Guest,
Mara Windsor, DO, Emergency Medicine Physician
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Surprise medical bills have become a major issue for Americans, but federal legislation to protect consumers continues to stall. Is Congress getting closer to halting this practice?
Guest: Nicholas Bagley, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor
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How are educators and families navigating what we know, and don’t know, about the risks of restarting school during a pandemic?
Guest,
Emily Oster, Professor of Economics, Brown University
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As medical interns step into their new roles as doctors, one resident gives us a window into her experiences in a COVID ICU.
Guest: Tamar Pounardjian, Resident, Brown Medical School, Internal Medicine Residency Program
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Soaring numbers of Americans are feeling anxious, stressed and depressed. Could a reimagined approach to primary care help meet their needs?
Eboni Winford, PhD, Director of Research and Health Equity, Cherokee Health Systems
Parinda Khatri, PhD, Chief Clinical Officer, Cherokee Health Systems
Sandy Blount, EdD, Founding Director, Center for Integrated Primary Care, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Richard Frank, PhD, Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics, Harvard Medical School
Robert, Patient, Cherokee Health Systems
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Five months into the global pandemic and with just over 100 days before the general election, we check in with the latest polling on how voters are feeling about health care in the U.S.
Guest:
Ashley Kirzinger, Associate Director of Public Opinion and Survey Research, Kaiser Family Foundation
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Will this be the end of fee-for-service? How should we price a COVID-19 vaccine? Bapu Jena and Sayeh Nikpay answer audience questions about the pandemic.
Guests:
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Health Policy, Vanderbilt University
Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Insurers have been on strong financial footing during the pandemic while doctors, hospitals and consumers have not been as lucky. Two researchers give us a behind the scenes looks at what insurers have experienced these past four months.
Guest,
Linda Blumberg, Fellow, Urban Institute
Kevin Lucia, Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
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The Trump administration recently rolled back some federal protections for transgender patients. We look at the fight to secure health care for trans Americans and explore the extent to which policies designed to expand access have delivered on their promise.
Guests:
Kellan Baker, PhD, Centennial Scholar, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Melvin Whitehead, PhD, Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration, Binghamton University
Katie Keith, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
Taylor Brown, Staff Attorney, ACLU LGBT & HIV Project
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President Trump says the U.S. is leaving the World Health Organization. What it might mean for public health in the U.S. and the world.
Guest: Lawrence Gostin, Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
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A recent court decision upheld federal rules requiring hospitals and insurers to post prices. But will price transparency lower the cost of health care?
Guest,
Margot Sanger-Katz, Health Care Reporter, New York Times
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Physician and economist Bapu Jena discusses a pair of interesting new health policy research papers with implications for COVID-19, primary care and more.
Guest:
Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, Harvard economist and physician
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Medical interns across the nation are starting their first days as doctors. One resident's hopes and fears before her first shift in the COVID ICU.
Guest:
Tamar Pounardjian, Resident, Brown Medical School, Internal Medicine Residency Program
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With COVID-19 cases surging across the nation, how can Americans fight their coronavirus fatigue while staying safe?
Guest,
Ashish Jha, Director, Harvard Global Health Institute
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As the opioid crisis continues to ravage the country, some states are turning to controversial laws that force people into treatment. Are they part of the solution or could they make things worse?
This episode originally ran on Jan. 2, 2020.
Guests:
Dr. Abhishek Jain, forensic psychiatrist
Rep. Lauren Davis, Washington state
Merredith Cunniff, nurse, advocate and former civil commitment patient
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The Supreme Court says the Trump administration can’t end DACA, for now. What the decision means to one DACA recipient caring for those most vulnerable to COVID-19.
Guest: Esmeralda Tovar-Mora; Mental Health Case Manager, Nursing Home Medication Aide, DACA Recipient
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A top World Health Organization official sparked controversy earlier this month when she said cases of asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 spreading the virus are “very rare.” Bloomberg senior editor Jason Gale digs into what we know — and don’t know — about asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19, also known as “silent spreaders.”
Guests:
Jason Gale, Senior Editor, Bloomberg News
Dr. Sanjaya Senanayake, Associate Professor, Australia National University
Dr. Peter Collignon, Professor, Australia National University
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The average doctor does more than 200,000 patient interviews in their career, making communication one of the most common procedures in medicine. How are we training providers for this and are those efforts working?
This episode originally aired on Nov. 13, 2019.
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New data suggest undocumented immigrants aren't being tested enough for COVID-19. What's standing in the way, and what's being done to address it?
Guests:
Ana
Matt Notowidigdo, PhD, University of Chicago Poverty Lab
Samantha Artiga, Director, Disparities Policy Project, Kaiser Family Foundation
Dawn Mautner, MD, MS, Medical Director, Oregon State Medicaid; Senior Health Advisor, Oregon Health Authority
Monica Juarez, MPH, Regional Outreach Coordinator, Oregon Health Authority
Special thanks to medical anthropologist Whitney Duncan who provided translation services and whose research on immigrant health connected us with Ana.
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Early in the pandemic, California was conducting just 2,000 coronavirus tests a day. Now the state is up to 60,000. How did they ramp up testing so quickly?
Guests:
Bob Kocher, Partner, Venrock
Charity Dean, Assistant Director of the California Department of Public Health
Paul Markovich, President of Blue Shield of California
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A new, more conservative Supreme Court is about to rule on its first major cases involving reproductive health and rights. We review the cases and their consequences.
Guest:
Mary Ziegler, JD, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor of Law, Florida State University
For more about these two cases: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/06/04/without-precedent/
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As the nation responds to the police killing of George Floyd, we explore the public health impacts of police violence and what a public health response could look like.
Guest: Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, pediatrician and police violence researcher
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With their business models upended by the coronavirus, hospitals are dusting off a decades-old idea: hospitalize patients in their own homes.
Guests:
Bruce Leff, MD, Director, The Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Johns Hopkins
Travis Messina, MBA, Cofounder and CEO, Contessa
Kavita Patel, MD, MPH, Nonresident Fellow, Brookings Institution
Raphael Rakowski, Cofounder and CEO, Medically Home
David Zaas, MD, MBA, President, Duke Raleigh Hopsital
For more about hospital care at home: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/28/home-sweet-hospital/
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Sites known as preprint servers post cutting-edge research in mere days. That speed has advantages during a health crisis, but it also comes with risks.
Guest:
Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
For more about preprints visit: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/26/science-under-pressure/
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Requiring face masks in public during COVID-19 may be a good public health move but it may also be putting some people's health at risk.
Guest:
Dr. Gabriel Felix, Psychiatry Resident at Cambridge Health Alliance
For more of Gabriel’s story: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/21/masking-problems/
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Some scientists argue we should intentionally infect volunteers with the coronavirus to get a vaccine sooner. How would it work?
Guests:
Lehua Gray, Challenge Trial Volunteer
Seema Shah, JD, Associate Director of Research Ethics, Lurie Children’s Hospital
Zeb Jamrozik, MD, PhD, Monash Bioethics Centre
Anna Durbin, MD, Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Learn more about human challenge trials and read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/19/challenge-trials
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The cosponsor of Colorado’s recently withdrawn public option bill shares what it was like to go from being on the eve of major health reform to the brink of an economic and health care catastrophe.
Guest:
Kerry Donovan, State Senator, Colorado District 5
For more information about Colorado's public option legislation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/14/bill-interrupted/
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America’s public health agencies are fighting the coronavirus with phones and faxes rather than the real-time data they desperately need.
Guests:
Janet Hamilton, Executive Director, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Richard Danila, Deputy Epidemiologist for the state of Minnesota
Katie O’Donnell, Larimer County Health Department
Arien Malec, former federal health IT official
Julia Adler-Milstein, Professor of Medicine at UCSF
For more information about the state of the data driving testing, tracing and surveillance: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/12/what-the-fax
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Inside one county's efforts to use contact tracing to flatten the COVID-19 curve.
Guest: Tair Kiphibane, nurse, director of the infectious disease bureau in Salt Lake County, Utah.
For more information about contact tracing: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/07/disease-detectives/
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What happened to Medicaid during the last recession? And what can that teach us going into the next one?
Guests:
MaryAnne Lindeblad, Washington State Medicaid Director
Tom Betlach, Former Arizona Medicaid Director
Ben Sommers, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Harvard
Helen Levy, PhD, Research Professor, University of Michigan School
Get more information and read the transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/05/medicaid-recession/
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The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that insurers are owed $12 billion for losses they incurred in the early days of the Affordable Care Act. What are the origins and implications of this case?
Guests:
Larry Levitt, Executive Vice President for Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
For more of our conversation with Larry: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/30/risk-corridors
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The coronavirus is straining our primary care system. But, for some, the situation is starting to look more robust.
Guests:
Chuck Jones, President and CEA, Harbor Health
For more information about how primary care services are faring in this climate, visit https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/28/primary-care-on-the-mend/
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Millions of Americans have recently lost their health insurance along with their jobs. What should be done to help them stay covered during this crisis?
Guests: Mayra Jimenez
Chris Holt, Director of Health Care Policy, American Action Forum
Jon Gruber, Professor of Economics, MIT
Jill Berk, Senior Researcher, Mathematica
For more information about COBRA v ACA: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/23/the-cobra-conundrum
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How COVID-19 is threatening one man’s decades-long battle for sobriety and stability.
Guest: Antonio Matthews
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What's the best way to convince people to practice social distancing?
Guests:
Syon Bhanot, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College
Susanne Schwarz
Katy Milkman, PhD, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Sanders, PhD, Reader in Public Policy, Policy Institute at King’s College London
Get more information and read the transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/16/almost-everyone-is-doing-it
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In response to the coronavirus, experts are designing plans to ration resources and determine who should get care before someone else.
Guests: Douglas White, Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
Samuel Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan
Marie Baldiserri, Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
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Many older adults were already lonely and isolated before this crisis began. How are they faring now and what’s being done to help them?
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/09/what-keeps-me-up-at-night/
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Is the coronavirus situation in San Francisco calm enough that one of its top hospitals could start sending doctors to help New York City?
Guest: Bob Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/08/cc-wachter-3
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Is it a good idea for hospitals to send patients recovering from COVID-19 to nursing homes?
Guests:
David Grabowski, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Get more information and read the transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/03/after-the-hospital/
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A look at the experiences of patients in an ICU, who, due to new hospital policies, are unable to see family.
Guest: Daniela Lamas, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women's Hospital.
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/04/02/cc-lamas/
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A view from inside a hospital at the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak in New York City.
Guest: Dr. David Reich, President and Chief Operating Officer, Mount Sinai Hospital
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/31/cc-reich
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A doctor worries about the care her patients won't get because of the coronavirus.
Guest: Dr. Amy Richardson, OB-GYN
Read the transcript: hhttps://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/28/cc-richardson/
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After the coronavirus takes her job and her insurance along with it, a woman living with a chronic condition navigates her new reality.
Guests: Mayra Jimenez and Linda White
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/27/cc-jimenez/
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We check in again with Bob Wachter and find out how one hospital is dealing with difficult decisions in the wake of the coronavirus.
Guest: Bob Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/26/cc-wachter-2
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The coronavirus pandemic is putting a serious strain on the country's primary care system.
Guests: Michaela Keller, Manager, Federal Affairs, National Association of Community Health Centers
Chuck Jones, President and CEO, Harbor Health Services
Farzad Mostashari, MD, Co-founder and CEO, Aledade
Meredith Rosenthal, PhD, Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Read the transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/25/primary-care-in-crisis
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Every year on Match Day, thousands of medical students find out where they will continue their medical training as residents. The U.S. spends billions each year on those residencies, so why aren't we getting the doctors we need where we need them?
Guests: Candice Chen, MD, MPH, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at George Washington University
Ted Epperly, MD, President and CEO of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Learn more about how the U.S. funds residency programs on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/20/season-1-ep-12
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How do you take care of "the old, the poor and the sick" during a global pandemic?
Guest: Chris Chen, CEO ChenMed
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/19/cc-chen/
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As coronavirus closes down her café, a small business owner reckons with mounting financial challenges.
Guest: Pam Gueldner, co-owner of Manndible Cafe
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/18/cc-gueldner/
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How one hospital is dealing with difficult decisions in the wake of the coronavirus.
Guest: Bob Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
Read the transcript: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/17/cc-wachter/
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Dan joins a group of neighbors for their “social distance” stoop party and hears how they are experiencing this outbreak so far.
Guest: Alison Buttenheim, Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania
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Even public health experts are struggling to make the right decisions on whether to cancel plans in the midst of the coronavirus.
Guests: Alison Buttenheim, Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania
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As the country debates the best way to reform our health care system, we explore a blueprint for universal coverage that looks a lot different from the Medicare for All proposals we’ve heard most about. (Recorded in front of a live audience at the University of Pennsylvania on Feb. 21, 2020.)
Guests: Kate Baicker, PhD, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School
Julia Lynch, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
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Shortages of basic medical supplies have become a familiar pattern for hospitals around the U.S. What causes them? And how can we prevent them?
Guests: Dr. Eric Haas, Chief of Colorectal Surgery, Houston Methodist
Matt Grennan, Assistant Professor of Health Care Management, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Ozlem Ergun, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
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The Iowa caucuses were a mess. But one thing is clear: Health care is a top issue for Democratic voters in 2020. We dive into the polls and talk with voters to understand how and why health care is shaping this year's election.
Guests:
Ashley Kirzinger, Associate Director of Public Opinion and Survey Research, Kaiser Family Foundation
Ryan Levi, Producer, Tradeoffs
Dig deeper into the Kaiser Family Foundation's 2020 polling and see pictures of the voters on our website: http://bit.ly/tradeoffsep9
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Every time the U.S. tries to rein in rising drug prices, we hear the same thing from pharma: Stymie our profits, and you’ll get less innovation and fewer breakthrough treatments. Does the evidence back up this constant refrain?
Guests:
Chaitan Khosla, Director of Stanford ChEM-H
Craig Garthwaite, Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Stacie Dusetzina, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University
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In this debut edition of The Sidebar, your home for bonus Tradeoffs content, cohosts Dan and Sayeh take a closer look at the randomized controlled trial (RCT), a popular method for evaluating health interventions.
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Nearly two decades ago, Dr. Jeff Brenner hypothesized that nurses and social workers could guide the country's most complicated patients toward better health ... and cut expensive hospital admissions along the way. Was he right?
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As the opioid crisis continues to ravage the country, some states are turning to controversial laws that force people into treatment. Are they part of the solution or could they make things worse? (Note: This episode has been corrected to include the most updated number of states with compelled treatment laws.)
Guests:
Dr. Abhishek Jain, forensic psychiatrist
Rep. Lauren Davis, Washington state
Merredith Cunniff, nurse, advocate and former civil commitment patient
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Two friends have spent 20 years trying to redesign insurance around one simple but elusive goal: make the good stuff more accessible than the bad stuff.
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We know good nutrition is tied to good health. But is there evidence that food should be prescribed and paid for like medicine?
Guests: Bouba Dieme and Desirée Allen
David Waters, CEO of Community Servings
Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary of North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services
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The average doctor does more than 200,000 patient interviews in their career, making communication one of the most common procedures in medicine. How are we training providers in it and are those efforts working?
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Many hospitals have spent the last 30 years buying up their competitors big and small. What have these mergers and acquisitions done to the cost and quality of care, and where do we go from here?
Guests:
Jaime King, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law
Bob Town, Professor of Economics, University of Texas
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Select Resources:
Overview of hospital consolidation and its impacts: https://bit.ly/36hngRp
How concentrated is your hospital market? https://bit.ly/36fYLEj
Fact sheet on California's lawsuit against Sutter Health: https://bit.ly/2Pwcr86
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A team of economists and coders has built one of the most influential machines in health care—a machine almost no one has ever heard of. Their latest analysis may shake up the Democratic debate.
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The full new report from the Urban Institute: https://urbn.is/31jYoEZ
Accompanying issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund: http://bit.ly/31iM9Zt
Interactive plan comparison tool from the Commonwealth Fund: http://bit.ly/2IVsbgR
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When it comes to fixing America's costly and complicated health care system, the truth is: there are no silver bullets, no cure-alls. There are only Tradeoffs. A new podcast about health care, policy, and people premiering October 16th.
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