Tradeoffs

As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospitals and insurers are getting in the way. We get an inside look at one doctor’s quest to improve health care for people with conditions like Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism.

Guests:

Alison Barkoff, JD, Administration for Community Living, HHS

Kevin Carlson

Clarissa Kripke, MD, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Office of Developmental Primary Care; University of California, San Francisco

Marjorie Ongpauco, BSN, RN, Nursing Consultant

Harold Pollack, PhD, Professor of Social Work, Policy and Practice; University of Chicago

Donna Valencia, BSN, RN, MSN, Administrator, Group Home Administrator

Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs

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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 country’s sickest, poorest patients?

Guests:

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

Saleema Render-Hornsby, Dually eligible patient

Allison Rizer, MBA, Executive Vice President, ATI Advisory

Eric Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Casey Schwarz, JD, Senior Counsel, Medicare Rights Center

Hong Truong, Caregiver of dually eligible patient

Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter, Tradeoffs

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There are a lot of concerns about the dangers artificial intelligence could pose to your health privacy. AI expert Nicholson Price explains why he thinks too much concern over privacy could make health care AI worse.

Guest:

Nicholson Price, JD, PhD, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could wind up being worse for patients. 

Guests:

Ge Bai, PhD, CPA, Professor of Accounting at Carey Business School, Professor of Health Policy at Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University 

Jill Horwitz, PhD, JD, MPP, David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine and Founding Faculty Director, Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits, UCLA

Donna Lynne, DrPH, Denver Health CEO

Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, President and CEO of America’s Essential Hospitals

Gary Young, PhD, JD, Director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University 

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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 talk with journalist Steven Petrow about his sister’s choice to use medical aid in dying.

Guest:

Steven Petrow, Journalist and author

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Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Guest:

Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; primary care physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbating racial bias in health care.

Guests:

Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

James Ellzy, MD, Chief Health Officer, Oracle Health Government Services

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Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way health care is delivered in America. 

Guests:

Zach Baron, Co-director of Health Policy and the Law Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health at Georgetown University Law Center

Katie Eyer, Professor at Rutgers Law School 

Laurie Sobel, Associate Director of Women's Health Policy at KFF

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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

Guests:

Eric Ezzi, Certified Recovery Specialist, Penn Medicine

Ashish Thakrar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Leslie Suen, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Ryan Levi, Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs 

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We've got a lot to share with you in 2024!

We're looking into how fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are upending long established treatments for opioid addiction, and what clinicians and policymakers are doing to adapt.

There are a bunch of cases in the courts this year that have the potential to change Americans' access to care, and restrict the power of federal health agencies.

And nearly 25 years after a landmark case, declaring that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a right to live outside state-run institutions, we examine how doctors, hospitals and insurers are failing many of them … and one woman's work to forge a better path.

New episodes start 25 January, 2024!

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