Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLIVE with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator
Episode 48
As part of Policy Spotlight, a new virtual event series from Health Affairs, Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil welcomed Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the new Admin…
5 years ago
James Robinson On The Drug Market, Innovation, Biosimilars, and What The French Get Right
Episode 47
In our multi-payer health care system, the pharmaceutical market involves the complex interplay of manufacturers, insurers, prescribers, and patients…
5 years ago
Health Care Gaps For Migrants & Asylum Seekers On The Mexican Border During COVID-19
Episode 46
Migrants on their way to another country and people seeking asylum are often overlooked in health policy. During the COVID-19 pandemic as immigration…
5 years, 1 month ago
Many US Citizen Migrant Children Living In Mexico Have Inadequate Health Coverage
Episode 45
Children born in the United States are born US citizens. Some of these children are born to immigrant parents who returned to their country of origin…
5 years, 1 month ago
LIVE with Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health IT
Episode 44
BONUS EPISODE
As part of Policy Spotlight, a new virtual event series from Health Affairs, The Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal welcomed M…
5 years, 1 month ago
Many US Immigrants May Defer Health Care to Avoid ICE
Episode 43
Sixty-eight percent of undocumented immigrants in the United States come from Mexico or Central America. As a result, deportation policies have a dis…
5 years, 1 month ago
An Aging Immigrant Population and the Health Policy Questions It Raises
Episode 42
Roughly 45 million immigrants live in the United States today, a fourfold increase since the 1960s.
Immigrants face unique challenges obtaining healt…
5 years, 1 month ago
The importance of mental health workers for mobile crisis response
Episode 41
With the US becoming more focused on addressing mental health, one important topic is how society responds to people experiencing mental health crise…
5 years, 2 months ago
What gun violence does to health
Episode 40
Gun violence harms the health of victims and witnesses, but it also disrupts community social cohesion and behavioral norms. The people in communitie…
5 years, 2 months ago
Timing out-of-pocket spending in health care is challenging
Episode 39
Almost all commercial insurance plans have cost-sharing provisions where patients help pay for their health care services.
Annual deductibles — which…
5 years, 2 months ago