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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 17:20
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...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:55
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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
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:44
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Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 18:49
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 22:59
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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California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
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A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 16:39
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 17:02
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


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
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One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 15:52
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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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A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:32
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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
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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.

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gabriel Kibuyu (right) receives hospital-at-home care from UMass Memorial Medical Center nurse Danae Stand (center) and Dr. Constantinos Michaelidis (left on tablet) on March 6, 2023., Credit: Photo by Lisa Abitbol for Tradeoffs.
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 24:21
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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
Caption: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes plainspoken information from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities, and some insurers are buying in., Credit: Ryan Levi
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 20:23
  • Purchases: 1
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After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 18:07
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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
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Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 14:24