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Dr. Rachel Dolin Discusses the House Ways & Means Committee's Recent Report,"Under-Enforced and Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging America’s Nursing Homes” (August 27th)
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In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2007, the FDA's Dr. David Graham stated, "15,000 elderly people in nursing h…
5 years, 9 months ago
Dr. Charles Binkley Discusses Medical Ethics in the Time of COVID-19 (August 24th)
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From an ethical perspective our nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous. For example, as has been widely reported, …
5 years, 9 months ago
Dr. J. Mario Molina Discusses Medicaid Program Financing in Light of the On-Going COVID-19 Pandemic (August 11th)
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Because the economy and the Medicaid program run counter cyclically or are negative correlated (when the economy falters, Medicaid enrollme…
5 years, 9 months ago
Georgetown Professor Judy Feder Discusses Long Term Care Policy (July 29th)
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Federal policymakers have struggled unsuccessfully since at least the 1980s to create a national long term care (LTC) policy. LTC coverage…
5 years, 10 months ago
210th Podcast: Stanford's Paul Ehrlich Discusses the On-Going (and Accelerating) Sixth Mass Extinction (July 23rd)
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Our planet is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction. Over the past 450 million years the planet has experienced five previous m…
5 years, 10 months ago
Georgetown's Prof JoAnn Volk Discusses Health Care Sharing Ministries (July 21st)
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The Trump administration has strongly supported alternative insurance plans in the individual market or those that do not meeting regulator…
5 years, 10 months ago
Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby Discusses Structural Racism in Health Care (July 8th)
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Being endemic in the US, racism is pervasive in health care. It explains everything from the fact that the black to white infant mortality…
5 years, 10 months ago
ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra, Discusses the Need for a Congressionally-Created National Health Care Reform Commission (June 23rd)
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The current public health emergency brings into stark relief US health care’s ineffectiveness. As previously noted, with 4.25% of the worl…
5 years, 11 months ago
Interviewer as Interviewee: David Introcaso Answers Listeners' Questions (June 17th) (Part II)
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Since I've received and answered questions via email concerning podcast interviews and related health care policy questions over the past e…
5 years, 11 months ago
Mary Paier Powers Discusses What Family Caregivers Should Consider During the Pandemic When a Relative Is Resident in a Long Term Care Facility (June 5th)
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had particularly fatal effect on seniors or the frail elderly residing in Long Term Care (LTC) facilities, e.g., …
6 years ago