Ryan Levi, Author at Tradeoffs

Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

In Part 2 of our 988 series, the scramble to staff the new mental health crisis line and the lessons 988 can learn from 911.

The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

We talk with a Michigan OB-GYN determined to make sure her hospital is ready if abortion becomes illegal in her state.

Medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people — is on the rise.

Taking stock of the impact of the Aduhelm saga and Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial treatment.

We explore health care’s role in the climate crisis and what policies are needed to shrink its carbon footprint.

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

We break down the controversial FDA user fee process and the legislative bonanza it kicks off every five years.

How a once taboo strategy to keep drug users safe has become more mainstream and what that could mean for our overdose crisis.