Tradeoffs

The pandemic forced dentists across the country to shut down last spring. We talk with one dentist about what that meant for her business, her patients, and what it’s been like to open back up.

Guest: Stacey Van Scoyoc, DDS, General Dentist, Co-Owner, Bloomington Family Dental

Find additional resources and a full transcript of today's episode on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/06/10/drilling-into-a-dentists-covid-roller-coaster-ride/

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration faces a costly and consequential decision over whether to approve a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug.

Guest:

Caleb Alexander, Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

View the transcript for today's episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/06/03/the-fdas-pressure-packed-alzheimers-drug-decision

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New national guidelines say millions more Americans should get screened for lung cancer. The test can save lives, but it's inaccessible to many and harmful to some. How should we balance the promise and perils of lung cancer screening?

Guests:

Otis Brawley, MD, Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Lisa Carter-Harris, PhD, APRN, Behavioral Scientist and Adult Nurse Practitioner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Cherie Erkmen, MD, Professor of Thoracic Surgery and Director, Lung Cancer Screening Program, Temple University

Ella Kazerooni, MD, Professor of Radiology, University of Michigan

Ida Pittman, lung cancer patient, Temple University Hospital 

Helena Price, Ida’s cousin and health care advocate

Gerard Silvestri, MD, Professor of Pulmonology, Medical University of South Carolina

Dig deeper into the research and tradeoffs of lung cancer screening on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/05/27/catching-americas-top-cancer-killer/

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With about one-third of Americans still not convinced they need to be vaccinated for COVID-19, many employers are debating whether to require their workers to get vaccinated. We dig into the research to help employers weigh the pros and cons.

Guests:

Sayeh Nikpay, PhD; Tradeoffs Contributing Research Editor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota

Corey White, PhD; Assistant Professor of Economics; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Brandyn Churchill, PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University

Learn more about Corey and Brandyn's research and the pros and cons of employer mandates on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/05/20/calling-the-shots-should-employers-mandate-covid-vaccines/

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In this special live episode, policy experts and employers debate the best way to improve the health insurance that 150 million Americans get through work. This session was part of “The Promise of Health Reform and a Public Option in a Biden Administration,” a virtual conference put on by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and United States of Care.

Guests:

Brian Blase, PhD, CEO, Blase Policy Strategies; Senior Fellow, Galen Institute; Senior Fellow, Foundation for Government Accountability

Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, MPH, Executive Director, Catalyst for Payment Reform

Allison Hoffman, JD, Professor of Law and LDI Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Shaundell Newsome, Founder, Sumnu Marketing; Co-Chair, Small Business for America’s Future

Sheila Savageau, U.S. Healthcare Leader, General Motors

Learn more about shortcomings of employer-based solution and the policies proposed in this episode on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/05/13/3-employers-2-wonks-and-1-health-insurance-mess/

LISTEN BACK to our recent episode on how other employers are managing the cost of health care: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/02/18/the-high-price-of-lowering-health-costs/

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Racism against people of Asian descent is not a new problem, but it’s been exacerbated lately by politicians using racist rhetoric to describe the coronavirus. Asians in America are now facing a dual pandemic: a heightened fear of racist abuse, from verbal slurs to physical assault, on top of all the anxiety of living through COVID-19. A conversation from our colleagues at The Dose.

Guests:

Shanoor Servai, MPP, Researcher, Writer and Lead Podcast Producer; The Commonwealth Fund

Vivian Shaw, PhD, College Fellow, Department of Sociology at Harvard University; Lead Researcher, AAPI COVID-19 Project

Susanna Park, PhD Candidate in Global Health, Oregon State University

Read a full transcript and learn more information about the AAPI COVID-19 project on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/05/06/presenting-the-dose-asian-americans-and-the-dual-pandemic/

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Despite President Biden’s campaign promise to create a public option, the policy has been missing from his first 100 days in office. A handful of states, however, are forging ahead with public option legislation.

Guests:

Heather Howard, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Sabrina Corlette, JD, Georgetown University

Dig deeper into the research and tradeoffs of integrated care on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/04/29/public-option-what-happened-to-bidens-big-idea

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After nearly a decade of sky-high prices, generics have sent the price of the HIV prevention drug PrEP plummeting. What kept it so expensive for so long, and will the price drop help us finally eradicate HIV?

Guests:

Robin Feldman, Professor of Law, UC Hastings; Director of the Center for Innovation

Tahir Amin, Co-Executive Director, I-MAK

Oni Blackstock, MD, Primary care and HIV physician

Tim Horn, Director of Health Care Access, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors

Craig Garthwaite, Director of Health Care, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univ.

Dig deeper into the research and tradeoffs of prescription drug pricing on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/04/22/preventing-hiv-just-got-a-lot-cheaper-what-took-so-long/

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More than 130 hospitals have closed in rural America over the last decade. Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble spent a year embedded in one small Kansas town as they dealt with their own hospital closure.

Guest: Sarah Jane Tribble, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News

Read a transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/08/losing-a-hospital/

Hear more of Sarah Jane's reporting about Fort Scott on the first season of Where It Hurts: whereithurts.show

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President Biden wants to spend $400 billion to help older and disabled Americans get health care at home as part of his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, a huge investment in an often neglected part of the health care system.

Guests:

Howard Gleckman, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute

Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania

Learn more and read a full transcript of the episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/04/08/bidens-400-billion-bet-on-caring-for-older-and-disabled-americans-at-home/

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