Tradeoffs

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November 13, 2019 What Brings You In Today?
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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32 min
October 30, 2019 The Train Has Left the Station
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?

Guests:
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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20 min
October 16, 2019 The Town the Ballpark Is In
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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22 min
September 20, 2019 Welcome to Tradeoffs
When it comes to fixing America's costly and complicated health care system, the truth is: there are no silver bullets, no cure-alls. There are only Tradeoffs. A new podcast about health care, policy, and people premiering October 16th.
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3 min

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Tradeoffs explores the toughest choices in health care, diving into issues like the cost of care, health equity, insurance, mental health and artificial intelligence. We connect policy to practice,…