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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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‘A Shocking Amount of Misery’: Medical Debt in America
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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The Conservative Clash Over Abortion Bans
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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BONUS: The Return of Our Research Newsletter
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.
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Guest:
Soleil Shah, Research Reporter, Tradeoffs
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SCOTUS Weighs Medicaid Recipients' Right to Sue
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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The Push to Bring Medicaid Behind Bars
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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Medicare Director Meena Seshamani on CMS' New Drug Pricing Powers
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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Customer Reviews
Excellent podcast
Tradeoffs make complex healthcare matters easy to understand by blending top research with first-person narratives. Healthcare policy impacts all of us and Tradeoffs helps us understand where the challenges are and how to take action to improve upon them.
Always a great use of 20 minutes
Tradeoffs has been my favorite podcast for years. They cover a broad range of health policy topics, layering in the human element to complement their research into US healthcare. The Tradeoffs team does a great job creating content that I’m happy to recommend to everyone because of the short format of each episode and the masterful way they make these topics both accessible to non-experts and interesting to those of us who work in the healthcare space.
And if you’re here looking for the latest and greatest health policy news and research, absolutely sign up for their research corner newsletter as well!
Hair always on fire
I get it, if you want to be sexy, you have to be dramatic. But this show almost always fails to keep it real by sensationalizing health care doom and gloom. Most recently, on medical debt, which is supposedly destroying the country, 100 million Americans have $140 Billion in debt!!! Do the math…its an average if $1,400. Not only not destroying us…it’s pocket change.