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Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly turn into $10,000 hospital visits. America’s health care leaders have spent years trying to help thi
One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon. Guest:Gwen O'Keefe, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioper
As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.Guest:Sandy E. James, JD, PhD, Lead Researcher, 2022 U.S. Transgender SurveyLearn more and read a full transcri
Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and Latina girls get left behind?Guests:Monica Bhatt, PhD, Senior Research Director, University of Chic
Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices. Guest:Benjamin Chartock, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bentley University Learn more and read a full transcript on our
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospitals and insurers are getting in the way. We get an inside look at one doctor’s quest to improve h
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, Du
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, P
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 Busin
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:St
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
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 Inf
Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way health care is delivered in America. Guests:Zach Baron, Co-director of Health Policy and the Law I
Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.Guests:Eric Ezzi, Certified Recovery Specialist, Penn MedicineAshish Thakrar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of
We've got a lot to share with you in 2024!We're looking into how fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are upending long established treatments for opioid addiction, and what clinicians and policymakers are doing to adapt.There are a bunch of ca
Last fall, the federal government named its first 10 targets for historic drug price negotiations with big pharma. Those negotiations are expected to heat up this February when federal officials make their opening price offers.This week, we off
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.Guest: Sarah Jane Tribble, Senior Correspondent,
From where medical students are choosing to train to how doctors are caring for women in reproductive health crises, the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe has had major ripple effects on the field of medicine. In this conversation from o
Economist Amy Finkelstein has studied America’s patchwork of health insurance policies for more than 20 years. In a forthcoming book she concludes it’s time tear the whole system down.This week, Dan talks with Amy about how she came to that con
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on a burned out workforce. But there are also concerns that these powerful new tools will perpetu
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on a burned out workforce. But there are also concerns that these powerful new tools will perpetu
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
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 w
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
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 provid
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