Tradeoffs

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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Medicare often pays clinics owned by hospitals double the amount it pays independent clinics for the exact same medical care. Ending that practice could save the federal government up to $150 billion over 10 years, but critics say it could push rural hospitals over the brink.

Guests:

Tim Rye, chief strategic development officer, Peterson Health 

Carrie Cochran-McClain, chief policy officer, National Rural Health Association

Loren Adler, fellow and associate director at the Center on Health Policy, Brookings Institution

Dean Clancy, senior health policy fellow, Americans for Prosperity 

Ali Moghtaderi, assistant professor of health policy and management, Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

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A closer look at the surgeon-turned-TV-star President Trump wants in charge of Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare.

Guests:

Tara Bannow, Reporter, STAT News

Tom Scully, CMS Administrator (2001-2004)

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A candid conversation between a professor and a Ph.D. candidate about potential NIH funding cuts and their impact on the future of medical research.

Guests:

Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Laura Mata López, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

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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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