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Founded by former Senior Health Care Reporter at Marketplace, Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs' mission is to help the folks on Main Street, Wall Street and Capitol Hill have smarter, more honest conversations about health policy. We combine data and evidence and storytelling to help people better understand the complicated, costly and often counterintuitive world of health care. Donate to help fuel our work in making data more accessible, understandable, and actionable. As a bonus, your donation, up to $1,000, will be matched dollar-for-dollar until December 31. Go to https://tradeoffs.org/donate/ to help sustain this essential work.
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The Stories That Made an Impact in 2023
In this special episode we reflect on a few of our favorite stories of 2023 and hear how they’re making a difference for patients and policymakers.
Guests:
Hannah Neprash, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Jami Snyder, MA, president and chief executive officer of consulting firm JSN Strategies
Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. And take a look at our full impact report!
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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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Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shielded from these unexpected charges. But who should pick up the tab instead? As state and federal policymakers grapple with that question, we delve into why finding a fair solution is harder than you’d think.
Guests:
Tara Bannow, Reporter, STAT
Precious Mae Clark, patient
Dia Gainor, Executive Director, National Association of State EMS Officials
Zach Gaumer, Principal, Health Management Associates
James Gelfand, JD President and CEO, ERISA Industry Committee
Bob Herman, Reporter, STAT
Pete Lawrence, Deputy Chief, Oceanside Fire
Butch Oberhoff, President, Texas EMS Alliance
Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs
Matt Zavadsky, At-Large Director, National Association of EMTs
To learn more, read a full transcript on our website and check out our reporting partner STAT's story, too.
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What Brings You In Today?
Health care leaders are spending more time and money trying to improve the way doctors and nurses talk with their patients, to build more trust. Are those efforts working? We eavesdrop on some difficult conversations between patients and providers, and meet researchers who are measuring the power of using just the right words.
This episode first aired in 2019 and remains as relevant as ever.
Guests:
Andrea Anderson, MD, Medical Director, Unity Health Care
Sumeera Baig, MD, Physician, R-Health
Calvin Chou, MD, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hannah Herman, DO, Resident, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
Lauren Howe, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Natalie Levinson, patient
Jeff Milstein, MD, Regional Medical Director, Penn Primary Care
Kathy Trow, MSN, APN-C, Nurse Practitioner, Penn Medicine
Jessika Welcome, mother of patient Natalie Levinson
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Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing and food for some of the state’s sickest and most vulnerable residents. Everyone expected this transformation — known as CalAIM — to take some time to hit its stride. We dig into CalAIM’s early challenges and what’s being done to right the ship.
Guests:
Pooja Bhalla, DNP, RN, CEO, Illumination Foundation
Jacey Cooper, Medicaid Director, California Department of Health Care Services
Kelly Bruno-Nelson, MSW, Executive Director of Medi-Cal/CalAIM, CalOptima Health
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Medical or Recreational? States Debate Where Psychedelics Belong
A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions — like depression and post traumatic stress disorder. The federal government continues to say it’s illegal to use these substances for treatment, but states like Oregon and Colorado are attempting to roll out regulated use. We talk with Mason Marks about the latest research, regulation, and legal gray areas on psychedelics.
Guests:
Mason Marks, JD MD Project Lead on the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
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Customer Reviews
Great Pod!
T.O. Continues to be one of the best health care policy pods!
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.
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.