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As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 27:55
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
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
A worldwide joint training exercise simulated a major battle with adversaries like China and Russia.
Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, and KUT
- Added: Aug 22, 2023
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 4
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
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
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
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...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 14:07
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
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 16:55
- Purchases: 1
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
Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 11:27
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
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
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
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
- Added: Jan 01, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
States are mailing absentee ballots sooner and - in a few places - letting troops cast ballots online. Still, voter turnout among military personne...
Bought by WRFA-LP, KUT, KPBS, and Texas Public Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 4
Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health poli...
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 16:16
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: 03:51
A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: May 05, 2022
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Apr 06, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Mar 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
Democratic lawmakers face tough compromises as they struggle to secure votes for their blockbuster spending bill and its sweeping health care provi...
- Added: Oct 13, 2021
- Length: 12:49
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...
- Added: Jul 23, 2021
- Length: 04:26
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...
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 50:34
