Physician and New Yorker writer Dhruv Khullar says artificial intelligence is a powerful tool to get quicker and more accurate diagnoses. But it can also be dangerous.

Guest:

Dhruv Khullar, Physician, Weill Cornell Medical College; Contributing Writer, The New Yorker

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Facing unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration, some of the world’s top drugmakers promise to cut prices. But experts say the savings might not be what they seem.

Guests:

• Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute
• Stacie Dusetzina, Professor of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University
• Darius Lakdawalla, Chief Scientific Officer, USC Schaeffer Center
• Pete Loftus, Reporter, Wall Street Journal
• Ben Rome, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter, Tradeoffs

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Journalist Paula Span, who writes The New Old Age column for the New York Times, shares what she’s learned about how to age well.

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Paula Span, reporter and The New Old Age columnist for the New York Times

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What happens if President Trump cuts billions from research on how to make our health care system work better?

Guest(s):

Aaron Carroll, President and CEO, Academy Health

Stuart Buck, Executive Director, Good Science Project

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It's been 90 days since Congress passed Trump’s megabill slashing health care spending and reshaping the Medicaid program. States are already knee-deep in dealing with the fallout.

Guests:

Hemi Tewarson, Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy

Leslie Walker, Senior Producer, Tradeoffs

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Excerpts of a live conversation with two top health economists about how extra federal support has helped millions of Americans access health insurance, and what would happen if that aid went away.

Guests:

Katherine Baicker, Provost and Emmett Dedmon Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

Jonathan Gruber, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT

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Every year, millions of people’s medical care runs into the roadblock known as prior authorization, which requires an insurer to sign off before chemotherapy, surgery or countless other services can proceed. Who does this often onerous process help, who does it hurt and how could it work better for everyone?

Guests:

Tom Roberts, Oncologist, Mass General Cancer Center

Aaron Schwartz, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Kathleen, Caregiver

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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sarah Stillman explains why so many people with mental illness are starving to death in U.S. jails, who is profiting, and what can be done to prevent it.

Guest:

Sarah Stillman, Staff Writer, New Yorker; Founder, Yale Investigative Reporting Lab

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Federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans are scheduled to shrink next year. Many shoppers are expected to be priced out of the market, leaving those who stay with higher premiums. It’s a dynamic that threatens to repeat, leaving markets with fewer and more expensive options as insurers exit, too. How did we get here?

Guest(s):

• Jonathan Kolstad, professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Nance L. Schick, employment attorney, founder of Third Ear Conflict Resolution

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As states struggle to meet the needs of people with serious mental illness, some are signing on to a federal pilot project that’s funneling new funding into institutional care.

Guests:

• Alex Barnard, Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University
• Danny Pasquini, patient
• Teresa Pasquini, Advocate
• Tyler Sadwith, Medicaid Director, California Department of Health Care Services
• Morgan Shields, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
• Ruth Shim, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UC Davis

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Worrying about deportation can literally make people sick. Health care providers are scrambling to cut through their undocumented patients’ panic about President Trump’s new immigration policies.

Guests:

Maria

Steph Willding, CEO, CommunityHealth

Emily Hendel, Director of Clinical Services, CommunityHealth

Samantha Artiga, Vice President and Director for Racial Equity Health Policy Program, KFF

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A mandate to make health care prices public was one of President Trump’s signature health policies in his first term. But forcing hospitals to publish prices hasn’t yet helped patients shop around for medical care.

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Melanie Evans, Producer, Tradeoffs

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One organization turns to a game to get employees to debate and decide together what health care they most value. 

Guests:

Paul Fronstin, Ph.D., Director, Health Benefits Research, Employee Benefits Research Institute 

Jeanette Janota, Senior Research Associate, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Tavril Saint Jean, Senior Research Associate, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Janet McNichol, Chief Human Resources Officer, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Evan Reid, Senior Director of Analytics, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Julia Reilly-Edwards, Data Scientist, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

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More than half of states — from deep blue California to solidly red Louisiana — want to bring Medicaid behind bars in hopes of saving the lives of people as they leave jail and prison.

Guests:

Lee Reed

Shira Shavit, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco; Executive Director, Transitions Clinic Network

Jacey Cooper, Director, California Medicaid Program

Cindy Beane, MSW, LCSW, Commissioner, West Virginia Bureau of Medical Services

Amy Katzen, JD, MPP, Director of Policy and Strategy, Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Mike Levine, Medicaid Director, MassHealth

Dana Flannery, Former Senior Policy Advisor, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

Khalil Cumberbatch, MSW, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Council on Criminal Justice

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A leading addiction expert explains how he’s driven by the memory of a friend who died, and why he believes giving data on the drug supply to people on the street is more important than using it to inform national drug policy.

Guest:

Nabarun Dasgupta, Epidemiologist, University of North Carolina Street Drug Analysis Lab and Opioid Data Lab

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Harrison Memorial Hospital in Cynthiana, Kentucky is already taking a hard look at its budget in light of Republican cuts to Medicaid. Here’s what that looks like.

Guest:

David Asher, Chief Strategy Officer at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Cynthiana, KY

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How the federal government has restricted health care access for transgender Americans, and how those shifts in policy and rhetoric are changing life for one Alabama family.

Guests:

Orion Rummler, LGBTQ+ Reporter, The 19th

Harleigh Walker

Jeff Walker

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North Carolina’s former health secretary explains the heavy lift and hard choices ahead of states as they rush to put Republicans' new health reforms in place.

Guest:

Kody Kinsley, Senior Policy Advisor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; former North Carolina secretary of health and human services

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Health law expert Katie Keith helps us break down what a pair of big court decisions mean for RFK Jr.’s power and for people's access to abortion, cancer screening and many other kinds of care.

Guest:

Katie Keith, Director, Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

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On June 18, Tradeoffs moderated an online event with economists and doctors examining why this legislation could cost so many people their health coverage — or even their lives.

Guests:

Eric Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

Aditi Vasan, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine

Rachel Werner, Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

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