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What to Expect When Medicare and Pharma Finally Negotiate Drug Prices
Season 1 Episode 229
The Inflation Reduction Act gave Medicare historic new power to directly negotiate the prices of some of the costliest prescription drugs. Now the fe…
3 years, 2 months ago
What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
Season 1 Episode 228
Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response. N…
3 years, 2 months ago
Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
Season 1 Episode 227
It’s been one year since 988, the country’s new mental health crisis line, went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So far, c…
3 years, 2 months ago
One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
Season 1 Episode 226
Economist Amy Finkelstein has studied America’s patchwork of health insurance policies for more than 20 years. In a forthcoming book she concludes it…
3 years, 2 months ago
1.5 Million People Have Lost Medicaid. How Worried Should We Be?
Season 1 Episode 225
More than 1.5 million people have lost Medicaid coverage since April 1 as states start purging people from the rolls for the first time in three year…
3 years, 3 months ago
‘No Place Else To Go’: Inside a Former Abortion Clinic
Season 1 Episode 224
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut thei…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Meteoric Rise of Private Medicare Advantage Insurance
Season 1 Episode 223
Medicare is in the midst of a pretty dramatic transformation. Before long, two out of every three enrollees will likely have a private Medicare Advan…
3 years, 3 months ago
What Gas Stoves, Minimum Wage Laws and the Military Teach Us About Health Policy
Season 1 Episode 222
Next week many of the country’s health economists will gather in St. Louis to share new research at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hea…
3 years, 3 months ago
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 221
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on…
3 years, 4 months ago
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 220
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on…
3 years, 4 months ago