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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
Plus, a surprising story about reality TV in Kenya
Bought by WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 21:12
Congress is considering whether to override a VA policy that says veterans who need financial fiduciaries may be reported to the FBI’s background c...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 4
Turns out Americans don't feel great about the direction of our country. But what exactly are they upset about, and are things as bad as they think?
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
We all deserve clean air and clean water.
Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
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
This poem to the President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 01:09
In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 29:30
Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Con...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 9
Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 21:56
Jess speaks with Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about the influence of fossil fuel dark money in politics today.
- Added: Aug 08, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
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
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
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
In this episode, we explore the Bay Area housing market, and how mass corporate ownership of homes and apartments throughout the region affects com...
- Added: Oct 27, 2022
- Length: 29:30
