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.

Guest:

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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The White House is asking Congress to sharply roll back federal spending on HIV prevention, a reversal from President Trump’s first term, when he championed investment to end the epidemic in America within a decade.

Guests:

Hana Fields, outreach manager, Health Outreach Prevention Education 

Dr. Patrick Sullivan, professor of epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health

Brad Sullivan 

Jeremiah Johnson, executive director, PrEP4All

Dr. John T. Brooks, former chief medical officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

Dr. Brett P. Giroir, former assistant secretary for health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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