We explore health care’s role in the climate crisis and what policies are needed to shrink its carbon footprint.
Ryan Levi
Ryan is the managing editor for Tradeoffs, helping lead the newsroom’s editorial strategy and guide its coverage on its flagship podcast, digital articles, newsletters and live events. Ryan spent six years as a reporter and producer for Tradeoffs covering Medicaid, mental health, addiction and health technology, including artificial intelligence. Ryan’s work has won numerous national awards and been featured on NPR, PBS NewsHour and The Marshall Project. Ryan lives in Washington D.C.
Posted inCost of Care
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.
Posted inHealth Law
The FDA Super Bowl
We break down the controversial FDA user fee process and the legislative bonanza it kicks off every five years.
Posted inHealth Law
Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
How a once taboo strategy to keep drug users safe has become more mainstream and what that could mean for our overdose crisis.
Posted inArticles
Best Health Care Podcasts of 2021
We look back on some of the best health care podcast episodes as determined by a few of our podcast host friends.
Posted inInsurance
Rethinking Telehealth’s Role in Treating Addiction
COVID opened the door to treating addiction remotely. Now policymakers have to decide whether to keep telehealth around.
Posted inInsurance
Has Medicaid Managed Care Delivered On Its Promise?
Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. Did it work?
Posted inWorkforce
COVID’s Push and Pull on the Public Health Workforce
A conversation between one person who felt she had to leave public health and another who was inspired to join the field.
Posted inWorkforce
How Do We Keep the Nursing Shortage From Getting Worse?
Experts are worried the U.S. could be headed for its worst nursing shortage in 20 years.
Posted inPublic Health
Employers Grapple With Fear, Uncertainty and Vaccine Mandates
A preschool owner wrestles with whether to require vaccines, and a researcher shares tips on how to make a mandate work.