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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.
 
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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.
 
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As gun violence surges, researchers are using new federal funding to search for solutions.
 
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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


For more of this and our previous conversations with Jones: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/03/18/one-community-health-centers-covid-recovery


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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


For more information on this topic: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/03/11/how-will-bidens-fix-for-child-poverty-affect-kids-health/


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