A major new study throws cold water on a popular approach to relieving medical debt, but leading experts say the research also reveals a promising path forward.

Guests:

Henry Harrell, MD, Physician 

Neale Mahoney, PhD, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Allison Sesso, President and CEO, Undue Medical Debt

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One advocate’s vision for the crucial role patients must play in the future of health care AI.

Andrea Downing, President and Co-Founder, The Light Collective

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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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One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.

Guest:

Gwen O'Keefe, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, OHSU

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As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

Guest:

Sandy E. James, JD, PhD, Lead Researcher, 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey

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Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and Latina girls get left behind?

Guests:

Monica Bhatt, PhD, Senior Research Director, University of Chicago Education Lab

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD, Professor, Washington University

Kathleen Ethier, PhD, Director, CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health

Ngozi Harris, LCPC, Working on Womanhood Director of Program and Staff Development, Youth Guidance

Shekinah Jackson, Working on Womanhood Participant

Nora-Lisa Malloy, Working on Womanhood Counselor, Youth Guidance

Heidi Sipe, EdS, Superintendent, Umatilla School District (OR)

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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices. 

Guest:

Benjamin Chartock, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bentley University

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As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospitals and insurers are getting in the way. We get an inside look at one doctor’s quest to improve health care for people with conditions like Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism.

Guests:

Alison Barkoff, JD, Administration for Community Living, HHS

Kevin Carlson

Clarissa Kripke, MD, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Office of Developmental Primary Care; University of California, San Francisco

Marjorie Ongpauco, BSN, RN, Nursing Consultant

Harold Pollack, PhD, Professor of Social Work, Policy and Practice; University of Chicago

Donna Valencia, BSN, RN, MSN, Administrator, Group Home Administrator

Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs

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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the country’s sickest, poorest patients?

Guests:

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

Saleema Render-Hornsby, Dually eligible patient

Allison Rizer, MBA, Executive Vice President, ATI Advisory

Eric Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Casey Schwarz, JD, Senior Counsel, Medicare Rights Center

Hong Truong, Caregiver of dually eligible patient

Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter, Tradeoffs

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There are a lot of concerns about the dangers artificial intelligence could pose to your health privacy. AI expert Nicholson Price explains why he thinks too much concern over privacy could make health care AI worse.

Guest:

Nicholson Price, JD, PhD, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

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