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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The Health and Human Services chief’s latest action on vaccinations is unprecedented, and quickly drew condemnation from medical groups who said his dismissal of the vaccine advisory committee put public health at risk. Here’s why the members of that committee are so important.

Guest:

Ron Balajadia, Hawaii Department of Health immunization branch chief

Dorit Reiss, University of California, San Francisco, professor of public health law 

Dr. Sarah Long, former member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and Drexel University, professor of pediatric infectious disease

Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Richard Hughes IV, attorney with Epstein Becker Green 

Per Fischer, CEO, MinervaX

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A Chicago violence prevention program is pairing cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring and wraparound support to help high-risk teens avoid incarceration.

Guests:

Nour Abdul-Razzak, Research Associate, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy; Research Director, University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab

Charles Branas, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Toni Copeland, Director of Student Supports and Violence Prevention Programs, Chicago Public Schools

Jennifer Doleac, Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice, Arnold Ventures

Jasper Guilbault, Therapist, Brightpoint

Gary Ivory, President and CEO, Youth Advocate Programs

Julie Noobler, Director of Mental Health and Wellness, Brightpoint

T-Man

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Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly turn into $10,000 hospital visits. America’s health care leaders have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned?

Guests:

Jeff Brenner, MD, CEO, The Jewish Board

Arthur Brown, Client, Camden Coalition

Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America

Allison Hamblin, MSPH, President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies

Paula Lantz, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan

Larry Moore, Client, Camden Coalition

Kathleen Noonan, JD, President and CEO, Camden Coalition

Dottie Scott, Community Health Worker, Camden Coalition

Brian Thompson, Housing Coordinator, Camden Coalition

Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs

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As Republicans consider major changes to Medicaid and Obamacare, we asked a leading economist about the shockwaves these sharp policy shifts could send throughout the entire health care system.

Guests:

Jonathan Gruber, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT

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Why are a handful of sheriff’s departments in California refusing to respond to some 911 calls that involve a person with mental illness?

Guest:

Lee Romney, Journalist and co-host of November In My Soul

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Check out Lee's full coverage for CalMatters.

Be sure to listen to Tradeoffs special series The Fifth Branch that examines what it looks like when one community dramatically changes how it responds to people in crisis.

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Guests:

Torie Bosch, Editor, First Opinion, STAT News

Michelle Taylor, Shelby County Division Director for Health Services, Shelby County, Tennessee

Raynard Washington, director of Mecklenburg County Public Health, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

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Katherine Wells, the public health director in Lubbock, Texas, describes her fight to stop a multi-state measles outbreak despite a chaotic reorganization of federal health agencies.

Guest:

Katherine Wells, Director, Lubbock Public Health

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We talk with Harvard researcher Ari Ne’eman about why the sharp policy shifts underway in Washington pose a unique threat to people with disabilities. 

Guest:

Ari Ne’eman, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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