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.

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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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Work requirements led to thousands in Arkansas losing their Medicaid during the first Trump administration. Policymakers say they’ve learned lessons to avoid mistakes this time.

Guests:

Trevor Hawkins, former Staff Attorney at Legal Aid of Arkansas

Angela Rachidi, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Ray Hanley, former CEO of the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care

Barbara Sears Roshon, Ohio Medicaid Director (2016-2019)

Ben Sommers, Huntley Quelch Professor of Health Care Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Maureen Corcoran, Ohio Medicaid Director

Ryan Levi, Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs

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The latest threat to the Affordable Care Act could strike down a popular provision that gives 180 million Americans access to free preventive care for conditions including HIV and cancer.

Guest:

Nicholas Bagley, JD, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

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Two months on the job, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has plowed forward with mass firings, funding cuts and new policies. The most immediate effect is across state and local health agencies, where officials say they see new cracks in safeguards against diseases.

Guests:

Dr. Phil Huang, director, Dallas County Health and Human Services 

Ryan Jury, acting senior deputy, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health

Chrissie Juliano, executive director, Big Cities Health Coalition

Emily Broad Leib, faculty director, Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic

Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives; former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Veteran health care reporter Julie Rovner breaks down the massive cuts and reorganization at HHS and answers listeners’ questions about what to expect next.

Guest:

Julie Rovner, Chief Washington Correspondent, KFF Health News

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