Patients and their caregivers are often left to navigate the confusing world of dementia by themselves, but Medicare is launching a new program to change that.
Dan Gorenstein
Dan is the Founder and Executive Editor of Tradeoffs, setting the vision for the organization’s journalism and strategy. Before Tradeoffs, he was the senior health care reporter at Marketplace and spent 11 years at New Hampshire Public Radio. He got his start in journalism at the Chicago Reporter, an investigative journal that examines race and class disparities in the Chicago area. Dan’s work has earned numerous national awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi investigative reporting award. He is based in Philadelphia.
Posted inHealth Equity
A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
A group of nurses in East Baltimore is piloting a bold plan to bring basic primary care to everybody no matter their age, income or insurance. Can this idea from abroad take root in the United States?
Posted inCost of Care
How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?
Health care leaders share what they’ve learned from two decades of trying to keep this group of costly, complicated patients out of the hospital.
Posted inCost of Care
Sen. Bill Cassidy Wrestles with a $500 Billion Health Care Problem
Tradeoffs talks with Sen. Bill Cassidy about a new bipartisan effort to improve care for some of the country’s poorest, sickest patients.
Posted inHealth Equity
Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI
A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about working together to keep AI from exacerbating racial bias in health care.
Posted inHealth Law
Presenting STAT’s First Opinion: How Two Abortion Providers Grapple with Their Post-Roe Reality
STAT’s First Opinion podcast host Torie Bosch talks with two abortion providers about what it’s like to practice medicine in post-Roe America.
Posted inPublic Health
When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
Tradeoffs research reporter Soleil Shah shares what he’s learning as a new medical resident about the value and limitations of health policy research.
Posted inCost of Care
Medicare Releases Details of Major Drug Price Reform
Medicare’s historic plan to slow prescription drug spending is taking shape.
Posted inHealth Equity
Data and Door Knocking: One City’s Push for Racial Equity in Vaccines
What Chicago can teach the rest of the country about distributing vaccines more equitably.
Posted inInsurance
The High Price of Lowering Health Costs for 150 Million Americans
Employers clash with hospitals, insurers and even their own workers over high health care prices.