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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
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
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
Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 2
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
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
Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Private...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 19:15
In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 24:29
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
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
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
About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, acce...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 20:42
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
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
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
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
How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medica...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 19:57
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
This week, we speak with Peter Lee who has led Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health benefit exchange, for a decade. As he pre...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:08
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
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
Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” jus...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 26:39
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 1
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'
- Added: Feb 08, 2019
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 1
