An employer in Chicago describes how another year of rising premiums forced her to consider dropping her workers’ insurance.

Guest:

Rachel Bernier-Green, Founder and CEO, EJ Consortium

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We talk with physician and writer Bob Wachter about why he’s cautiously optimistic that artificial intelligence will usher in a ‘golden age’ of medicine — and the questions he still has about these powerful new tools.

Guest:

• Bob Wachter, Chair, Department of Medicine, UC San Francisco; Author, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

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Patients are afraid to show up to medical appointments, while workers are being detained, deported or losing their visa statuses.

Guests:

• Sahida Martinez, promotora, Enlace
• Jadhira Sanchez, director of community health, Enlace
• Steph Willding, CEO, CommunityHealth
• Jordan Herring, Postdoctoral scholar, Emergency medicine, Stanford
• Hannah Janeway, Emergency medicine physician, Los Angeles
• Laura Messineo, CNO, WorldWide HealthStaff Solutions

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Half of states have rejected federal vaccine guidance on childhood vaccines after controversial changes by the CDC. Public health experts say the split is sowing confusion and increasing the risk of outbreaks.

Guests:

• Michelle Fiscus, physician, chief medical officer, Association of Immunization Managers
• Jen Kates, senior vice president; director, global and public health policy, KFF 
• Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett, physician, health officer, Washington Department of Health
• Philip Landrigan, physician and director, program for global public health and the common good, Boston College 
• Dorit Reiss, law professor, University of California, San Francisco

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How one addiction clinic in Baltimore has found success combining addiction care with support for the many other health problems older Americans often face.

Guests:

• Malik Burnett, Medical Director, REACH Health Services
• Lisa Clemans-Cope, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute
• Renee Gray, Patient, REACH Health Services
• Phyllis Lindsay, Peer Recovery Specialist, REACH Health Services
• Maggie Lowenstein, Assistant Professor, Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
• Vickie Walters, Executive Director, REACH Health Services

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How Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to force more people into treatment left many families still searching for help.

Guest(s):

• June Dudas
• Marisa Kendall, homelessness reporter, CalMatters

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Maryland finds out how much the state will get from a nationwide competition for federal rural health investment.

Guest(s):

• Christina Koontz, paramedic 
• Elizabeth Kromm, assistant secretary for population health and strategic initiatives, Maryland Department of Health
• Mike Salvadge, chief of emergency medical services, Allegany County, Md. 
• Meena Seshamani, Maryland secretary of health
• Hemi Tewarson, executive director, National Academy for State Health Policy

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We follow Maryland's 52-day rush to convince the Trump administration to give the state new funding to transform rural health care.

Guests:

• Bonita Baer, Maryland resident
• Mark Boucot, president and CEO of Garrett Regional Medical Center and Potomac Valley Hospital 
• Elizabeth Kromm, assistant secretary for population health and strategic initiatives, Maryland Department of Health
• Levi Lantz, ALL Produce & Greenhouse
• Ken Ulman, former executive, Howard County, Maryland; president of Margrave Strategies

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Many potent new medicines pose a host of challenges for drug companies trying to copy and sell similar versions on the cheap. Can those companies find a sustainable path forward, or will patients get left stuck paying exorbitant prices?

Guests:

Christine Baeder, MBA, President, Apotex USA

Alfred Engelberg, JD, retired attorney and former counsel to the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry Association

Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Candy Meyer, Patient

Bhaven Sampat, PhD, Professor, Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Marta Wosińska, PhD, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs

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Rural health experts dig into the Trump administration’s effort to transform rural health care.

Guests:

• Kevin Bennett, Director Center for Rural & Primary Healthcare; Professor, Family and Preventative Medicine, School of Medicine Columbia, University of South Carolina
• Paula Chatterjee, Director of Health Equity Research, Penn LDI; Assistant Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
• Sarah Jane Tribble, Chief Rural Correspondent, KFF Health News
• Rachel Werner, Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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