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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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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, Neighborhood Nursing
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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The Hunt for Lasting Fixes to America’s Medical Debt Crisis
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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Patients Push to Shape the Future of AI
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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