
 Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Private insurance companies and brokers unleash this flurry of marketing in hopes of persuading as many people as possible to switch plans during Medicare’s open enrollment period.
This week, we explore how too many choices, too little help and an alarming amount of deception combine to lead many of America’s most vulnerable older adults astray.

 Guests: Gretchen Jacobson, PhD, Vice President, Commonwealth Fund Lauren Lachs, Volunteer, Medicare Rights Center Leslie Montgomery, Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary
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Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess

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One advocate’s vision for the crucial role patients must play in the future of health care AI.
Andrea Downing, President and Co-Founder, The Light Collective
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Patients Push to Shape the Future of AI

Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly turn into $10,000 hospital visits. America’s health care leaders have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned?
Guests: Jeff Brenner, MD, CEO, The Jewish Board Arthur Brown, Client, Camden Coalition Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America Allison Hamblin, MSPH, President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies Paula Lantz, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan Larry Moore, Client, Camden Coalition Kathleen Noonan, JD, President and CEO, Camden Coalition Dottie Scott, Community Health Worker, Camden Coalition Brian Thompson, Housing Coordinator, Camden Coalition Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?

One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon. 
Guest: Gwen O'Keefe, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, OHSU
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An Insurance Company Bought This Doctor’s Practice. She’s Worried About Her Patients

As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.
Guest: Sandy E. James, JD, PhD, Lead Researcher, 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey
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92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned

Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and Latina girls get left behind?
Guests: Monica Bhatt, PhD, Senior Research Director, University of Chicago Education Lab Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD, Professor, Washington University Kathleen Ethier, PhD, Director, CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health Ngozi Harris, LCPC, Working on Womanhood Director of Program and Staff Development, Youth Guidance Shekinah Jackson, Working on Womanhood Participant Nora-Lisa Malloy, Working on Womanhood Counselor, Youth Guidance Heidi Sipe, EdS, Superintendent, Umatilla School District (OR)
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Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess

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