Two friends have spent 20 years trying to redesign insurance around one simple but elusive goal: make the good stuff more accessible than the bad stuff.

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We know good nutrition is tied to good health. But is there evidence that food should be prescribed and paid for like medicine?

Guests: Bouba Dieme and Desirée Allen

David Waters, CEO of Community Servings

Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary of North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services

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The average doctor does more than 200,000 patient interviews in their career, making communication one of the most common procedures in medicine. How are we training providers in it and are those efforts working?

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Many hospitals have spent the last 30 years buying up their competitors big and small. What have these mergers and acquisitions done to the cost and quality of care, and where do we go from here?

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Jaime King, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Bob Town, Professor of Economics, University of Texas

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Overview of hospital consolidation and its impacts: https://bit.ly/36hngRp

How concentrated is your hospital market? https://bit.ly/36fYLEj

Fact sheet on California's lawsuit against Sutter Health: https://bit.ly/2Pwcr86

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A team of economists and coders has built one of the most influential machines in health care—a machine almost no one has ever heard of. Their latest analysis may shake up the Democratic debate.

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The full new report from the Urban Institute: https://urbn.is/31jYoEZ

Accompanying issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund: http://bit.ly/31iM9Zt

Interactive plan comparison tool from the Commonwealth Fund: http://bit.ly/2IVsbgR

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