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One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
Season 1 Episode 249
Economist Amy Finkelstein has studied America’s patchwork of health insurance policies for more than 20 years. In a forthcoming book she concludes it…
2 years, 9 months ago
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 248
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on…
2 years, 9 months ago
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 247
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Stories That Made an Impact in 2023
Season 1 Episode 246
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.
G…
2 years, 10 months ago
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
Season 1 Episode 245
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 …
2 years, 10 months ago
Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?
Season 1 Episode 244
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shield…
2 years, 10 months ago
What Brings You In Today?
Season 1 Episode 243
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 …
2 years, 11 months ago
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
Season 1 Episode 242
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…
2 years, 11 months ago
Medical or Recreational? States Debate Where Psychedelics Belong
Season 1 Episode 241
A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions — like depression and post traumatic stress disor…
2 years, 11 months ago
Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess
Season 1 Episode 240
Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Private ins…
2 years, 11 months ago