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One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Kevin Carlson ringside at Monday Night Raw., Credit: Tradeoffs/Leslie Waker

As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...

Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?

From: Tradeoffs

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...

Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?

From: Tradeoffs

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...

Agitation to a System: Trans Resistance in Louisiana

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Hands holding up public comment cards in the Louisiana Senate chamber on Pride Day at the Capitol 2023 in Baton Rouge, LA., Credit: Raegan Labat

Louisiana, like many other states, has seen a slew of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced this legislative session. Sophie Ziegler joins to...

Bought by WORT, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

The Wonky Policy That’s Got Hospitals on High Alert

From: Tradeoffs

Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups. This week, we explain an old policy gathering...

The Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act

From: Tradeoffs

The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...

The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Medicare Director Meena Seshamani on CMS' New Drug Pricing Powers

From: Tradeoffs

Medicare’s historic plan to slow prescription drug spending is taking shape. Last Thursday federal health officials began detailing how one of two ...

States’ Uphill Battle to Stop Runaway Health Care Costs

From: Tradeoffs

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...

70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles and how they ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVSC and more

Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths? - Two-way

From: Tradeoffs

The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

70 Million: When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

A year ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. The goal is to reverse some of the negative impacts of the War on Drugs...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

A New Era in the Fight Over Medicaid Premiums

From: Tradeoffs

The impact of charging people to use Medicaid and how phasing out premiums could threaten one state’s Medicaid expansion.

Has Medicaid Managed Care Delivered On Its Promise?

From: Tradeoffs

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

Can Democrats Reconcile Their Health Policy Differences?

From: Tradeoffs

Democratic lawmakers face tough compromises as they struggle to secure votes for their blockbuster spending bill and its sweeping health care provi...

A Perfect Storm for Depression

From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic

All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...

Dr. Richard Lachmann discusses New York City mayoral choices

From: Ray Samuels

Are you a New Yorker who is somewhat confused about who you should support in the upcoming mayor election? In this interview, Professor Lachmann p...

New York Grand Jury to Hear Explosive 9/11 Evidence

From: John Shuck
Series: Beloved Community

David Meiswinkle and Barbara Honegger of The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, and Richard Gage AIA, of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth ...

Bought by 'The Sea'

2018’s Priority Guidance Plan from the IRS and Treasury

From: The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Series: ACTEC Trust and Estate Talk

Beth Shapiro Kaufman breaks down what wealth advisors need to know about the IRS and Treasury’s release of the 2018 Priority Guidance Plan.

The Far Right and Antifa

From: Making Contact

This episode explores the past and present of the far right and anti-fascism. We begin with the murder investigation of anti-fascist rapper, Pavlos...

Asylum seekers follow Canadian path once used by Underground Railroad

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls NY location where Harriet Tubman helped runaway slaves escape to Canada. , Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls NY location where Harriet Tubman helped runaway slaves escape to Canada.

Thousands of asylum seekers in the US are heading to Canada, because of the hostile political climate here. And they're taking routes along the Gre...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan and more

Can Asian carp be kept out of Lake Michigan?

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes

Caption: Kiowa pushes barges over electric carp barrier , Credit: Chuck Quirmbach

NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 President Trump's 2018 eliminates $300 million for projects along the Great Lakes. That threatens efforts to...

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, Wisconsin Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more

Research on Lake Erie algae blooms imperiled

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes

Caption: A piece of walleye head meat before it gets blended with dry ice - the first step in extracting the microcystin toxin from the fish tissue.a, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream

NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 By now, most of us have heard that President Trump wants to eliminate a 300-million-dollar program created t...

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WBFO, Wisconsin Public Radio (ops), Wisconsin Public Radio and more

Lake Superior cleanup threatened by Trump budget cuts

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes

Caption: Working for U.S. Steel, employees from Barr Engineering install instruments that measure groundwater seepage and flow between the sediments and St. Louis river. Data collected from the instruments will help in the design, construction and installation of , Credit: Derek Montgomery for MPR News

NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 President Trump's budget plan eliminates $300 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative -- hurting ...

Bought by WLPR , North Country Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Wisconsin Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more

Waukesha full speed ahead as mayors fight Great Lakes water diversion

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Oak CReek treatment plans, Credit: Susan Bence

A Wisconsin town is getting a lot of attention -- on the issue of drinking water. Waukesha lies outside the Great Lakes basin, but it has permissio...

Bought by WBFO, WMUK, WCPN, Interlochen Public Radio, and WXXI Rochester

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