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The Sky-High Price of Insulin and What Lawmakers Are Trying to Do About It
Season 1 Episode 159
We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.
G…
4 years, 5 months ago
How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
Season 1 Episode 158
After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the nation …
4 years, 5 months ago
Immunocompromised in a COVID-Weary World
Season 1 Episode 157
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
Guest:
Lindsay Ryan, MD, Sa…
4 years, 6 months ago
Inside Big Health Insurers’ Side Hustle
Season 1 Episode 156
America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s bigg…
4 years, 6 months ago
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
Season 1 Episode 155
The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate chan…
4 years, 6 months ago
A New Era in the Fight Over Medicaid Premiums
Season 1 Episode 154
We explore the impacts of charging Medicaid enrollees premiums and how phasing out premiums may affect Montana's Medicaid expansion program.
Guests:
Ka…
4 years, 6 months ago
Presenting Sick: Screaming in the Shower
Season 1 Episode 153
Jails and prisons are one of the few places in the United States where health care is a right. But for many incarcerated people, that care often fall…
4 years, 6 months ago
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
Season 1 Episode 152
We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician's desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
Guests:
Meredith Niess,…
4 years, 7 months ago
Peter Lee on Obamacare, Covered California and Where We Go Next With Health Care
Season 1 Episode 151
As Peter Lee prepares to step down after a decade of running California's Obamacare exchange, he reflects on his experience, the strengths and weakne…
4 years, 7 months ago
The FDA Super Bowl
Season 1 Episode 150
Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. This is one of th…
4 years, 7 months ago