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Publisher |: Tradeoffs

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Health,; Public Health,; Science & Medicine,; Society & Culture,; USA

Categories Via RSS |: News,; News & Politics,; Science

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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People |: Dan Gorenstein (@dmgorenstein),; Sayek Nikpay (@saynikpay)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: Boston, MA /; Minneapolis, MN
Premiere Date |: 2019-09-20
Related Hashtags |: #COVID19,; #COVID19,; #HealthPolicyValentines,; #Medicaid,; #podpicks
Frequency |: Weekly
Explicit |: No

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217 Available Episodes (217 Total) / Average duration: 00:18:09

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217 Available Episodes (217 Total)Average duration: 00:18:09

Apr 20, 2023

00:18:38

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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Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&id=89c5edcb93&utm_source=twitter-newsletter-signup&utm_medium=twitter">weekly newsletter featuring the latest health policy research and news.

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Apr 13, 2023

00:23:03

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

Learn more and read a full transcript on our website.

Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&id=89c5edcb93">Research Corner, our free weekly newsletter, featuring the latest health policy research and news.

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Apr 06, 2023

00:16:10

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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Mar 30, 2023

00:19:06

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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Mar 23, 2023

00:27:15

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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Mar 16, 2023

00:22:54

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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Mar 09, 2023

00:21:34

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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Mar 07, 2023

00:06:47

Meet the man behind our revamped research newsletter bringing you the latest health policy studies, original analysis, interviews with leading researchers and more every Tuesday.

Subscribe at tradeoffs.org/research

Guest:

Soleil Shah, Research Reporter, Tradeoffs

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Mar 02, 2023

00:13:44

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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Feb 23, 2023

00:28:30

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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Apr 20 | 00:18:38

The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity

Apr 13 | 00:23:03

Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis

Apr 06 | 00:16:10

The Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act

Mar 30 | 00:19:06

The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid

Mar 23 | 00:27:15

When Home Becomes a Hospital

Mar 16 | 00:22:54

‘A Shocking Amount of Misery’: Medical Debt in America

Mar 09 | 00:21:34

The Conservative Clash Over Abortion Bans

Mar 07 | 00:06:47

BONUS: The Return of Our Research Newsletter

Mar 02 | 00:13:44

SCOTUS Weighs Medicaid Recipients' Right to Sue

Feb 23 | 00:28:30

The Push to Bring Medicaid Behind Bars

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