263 episodes

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.
Learn more about us and find transcripts for each episode at https://tradeoffs.org


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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.
Learn more about us and find transcripts for each episode at https://tradeoffs.org


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    Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?

    Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?

    A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the country’s sickest, poorest patients?
    Guests:
    U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
    Saleema Render-Hornsby, Dually eligible patient
    Allison Rizer, MBA, Executive Vice President, ATI Advisory
    Eric Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    Casey Schwarz, JD, Senior Counsel, Medicare Rights Center
    Hong Truong, Caregiver of dually eligible patient
    Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter, Tradeoffs
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    • 22 min
    How Patient Privacy Could Hurt AI

    How Patient Privacy Could Hurt AI

    There are a lot of concerns about the dangers artificial intelligence could pose to your health privacy. AI expert Nicholson Price explains why he thinks too much concern over privacy could make health care AI worse.
    Guest:
    Nicholson Price, JD, PhD, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
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    • 24 min
    How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

    How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

    With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could wind up being worse for patients. 
    Guests:
    Ge Bai, PhD, CPA, Professor of Accounting at Carey Business School, Professor of Health Policy at Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University 
    Jill Horwitz, PhD, JD, MPP, David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine and Founding Faculty Director, Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits, UCLA
    Donna Lynne, DrPH, Denver Health CEO
    Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, President and CEO of America’s Essential Hospitals
    Gary Young, PhD, JD, Director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University 
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    • 18 min
    ‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer.’

    ‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer.’

    A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we talk with journalist Steven Petrow about his sister’s choice to use medical aid in dying.
    Guest:
    Steven Petrow, Journalist and author
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    • 23 min
    Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools

    Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools

    Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?
    Guest:
    Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; primary care physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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    • 20 min
    Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI

    Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI

    A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbating racial bias in health care.
    Guests:
    Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    James Ellzy, MD, Chief Health Officer, Oracle Health Government Services
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    • 27 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
350 Ratings

350 Ratings

LN7364 ,

Excellent podcast

Great insight into important health issues!

Twistingly Fun ,

Great Pod!

T.O. Continues to be one of the best health care policy pods!

NorthwoodsDoc ,

Great info! Need to ask the tough questions to make it real.

I just found this podcast and binge-listened to like 2 years worth and it's TOTALLY important information that I wish made the general news. But you don't ever ask your the reality-check questions that would make them question their own basic assumptions. Like the politician who was kinda feeling guilty about having to vote against continuing a successful Medicaid expansion if the state wasn't allowed to keep charging premiums. He kept talking about "having skin in the game" meaning charging premiums to people who make so little money that they actually qualify for Medicaid. That's pathetic to begin with. But the obvious follow up question to that state legislator who already admitted that the Medicaid expansion actually helped the Montana economy grow in a ton of ways, was to ask, "what percentage of your income do you pay for health insurance?" Or, even better, to ask him if he was serious about having "skin in the game" would he give up his current government health insurance and go on Medicaid, as his currently insurance is also costing state taxpayers alot of money and way more than the average Medicaid patient. Let's get real.

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