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Tradeoffs is an award-winning nonprofit news organization on a mission to help the folks on Main Street, Wall Street and Capitol Hill have smarter, more honest conversations about health policy.
Founded in 2019 by former Senior Health Care Reporter at Marketplace, Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs’ journalism combines data, evidence and storytelling to help people better understand the complicated, costly and often counterintuitive world of health care.
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More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
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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Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage
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 New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
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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A Telehealth Report Card: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t
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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How ‘Random Acts of Medicine’ Shape Our Health Care
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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Is Private Equity Ruining Health Care? It's Complicated.
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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