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How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire
Season 1 Episode 258
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could wi…
2 years, 7 months ago
‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer.’
Season 1 Episode 257
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 ta…
2 years, 7 months ago
Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
Season 1 Episode 256
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,…
2 years, 7 months ago
Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI
Season 1 Episode 255
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 …
2 years, 7 months ago
5 Ways America's Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024
Season 1 Episode 254
Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way hea…
2 years, 8 months ago
Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
Season 1 Episode 253
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 Recov…
2 years, 8 months ago
Tradeoffs in 2024
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 op…
2 years, 8 months ago
What to Expect When Medicare and Pharma Finally Negotiate Drug Prices
Season 1 Episode 252
Last fall, the federal government named its first 10 targets for historic drug price negotiations with big pharma. Those negotiations are expected to…
2 years, 8 months ago
Losing a Hospital
Season 1 Episode 251
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…
2 years, 8 months ago
Presenting STAT’s First Opinion: How Two Abortion Providers Grapple with Their Post-Roe Reality
Season 1 Episode 250
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 …
2 years, 9 months ago