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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 19:17
Caption: Precious Mae Clark reviews her medical bills.
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:50
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Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups. This week, we explain an old policy gathering...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 17:51
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Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans. This week, reporter Alice Miranda...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 19:26
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People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to so...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 26:10
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Medicare’s historic plan to slow prescription drug spending is taking shape. Last Thursday federal health officials began detailing how one of two ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 13:51
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One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 17:45
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A congressional ban on removing anyone from Medicaid will expire early next year. What will happen to people who lose their coverage, and how are s...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 18:50
Caption: Therese Humphrey Ball has struggled to afford her multiple sclerosis medications since her diagnosis in 2003., Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis for Tradeoffs
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 19:19
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 17:33
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The impact of charging people to use Medicaid and how phasing out premiums could threaten one state’s Medicaid expansion.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 20:23
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More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 23:30
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Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
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A torchlit Confederate protest in Charlottesville, Virginia had some residents recalling the days of the KKK. But one Virginia scholar says today’s...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2
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While Marine le Pen failed to win the recent French presidential election, her increased popularity is just the most recent example of how far righ...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Allen Wilson, 59, says he has debt collectors calling him over bills that should have been paid by Anthem, his former HIP 2.0 insurer., Credit: Jake Harper / Side Effects
Expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income Americans was a major component of the Affordable Care Act, and under then-Governor Mike Pence, Seema V...

Bought by WNIN


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Women are earning more degrees in higher education than men. So why are there so few women in tenure track or leadership positions in academia?

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 3
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Indiana governor Mike Pence is in the spotlight this week as the man Donald Trump has chosen as his running mate. In his three years running the Ho...

Bought by KCUR, WILL, and WNIN


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 3
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Colorado is one of many states that has tried to create a cash for recycling program, or bottle bill. However, opposition from some surprising sour...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
Caption: Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Credit: Bill Lancz
A recap of Monday night's Scottish Independence Debate. Postal ballots begin arriving at Scottish Homes today.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
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Investigative Journalist Lee Fang was the first reporter to expose the Tea Party's corporate sponsors.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:38
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On the eve of a vote in Uruguay's House of Representatives on the legalisation of Marijuana, Ben Weisz reports from Montevideo on a country yet to ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 06:51
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Yes we need quality teachers...but do we really know what that means?

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:35
Caption: Scientists at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia perform cutting edge neuroscience research. A Janelia Farm exec says Northern Virginia's congested highways makes hiring and retaining employees difficult., Credit: Matt Staley/Janelia Farm
Business execs in Northern Virginia, typically a core Republican constituency, are beginning to lose patience with the GOP over its refusal to rais...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 04:41