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Calling the Shots: Should Employers Mandate COVID Vaccines?
Season 1 Episode 109
With about one-third of Americans still not convinced they need to be vaccinated for COVID-19, many employers are debating whether to require their w…
5 years, 4 months ago
3 Employers, 2 Wonks and 1 Health Insurance Mess (LIVE!)
Season 1 Episode 108
In this special live episode, policy experts and employers debate the best way to improve the health insurance that 150 million Americans get through…
5 years, 4 months ago
Presenting The Dose: Asian Americans and the Dual Pandemic
Season 1 Episode 107
Racism against people of Asian descent is not a new problem, but it’s been exacerbated lately by politicians using racist rhetoric to describe the co…
5 years, 4 months ago
Public Option(al): What Happened to Biden's Big Idea?
Season 1 Episode 106
Despite President Biden’s campaign promise to create a public option, the policy has been missing from his first 100 days in office. A handful of sta…
5 years, 5 months ago
Preventing HIV Just Got A Lot Cheaper. What Took So Long?
Season 1 Episode 105
After nearly a decade of sky-high prices, generics have sent the price of the HIV prevention drug PrEP plummeting. What kept it so expensive for so l…
5 years, 5 months ago
Losing a Hospital
Season 1 Episode 104
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…
5 years, 5 months ago
Biden's $400 Billion Bet on Caring for Older and Disabled Americans at Home
Season 1 Episode 103
President Biden wants to spend $400 billion to help older and disabled Americans get health care at home as part of his $2 trillion infrastructure pr…
5 years, 5 months ago
A New Era of Gun Violence Research
Season 1 Episode 102
As gun violence surges, researchers are using new federal funding to search for solutions.
Emmy Betz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Emergency Medici…
5 years, 6 months ago
No Simple Answers: A COVID Q&A With NYT's Apoorva Mandavilli
Season 1 Episode 101
We sit down with one of the top pandemic reporters in the country to answer to answer listener questions.
Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, Science and Globa…
5 years, 6 months ago
One Community Health Center’s COVID Recovery
Season 1 Episode 100
One year ago, a community health center in Boston told us how COVID had wreaked havoc on their budget, staff and patient care. How are they doing now…
5 years, 6 months ago