Podcast Archives

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Cost of Care

Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?

by Leslie Walker March 14, 2024December 1, 2024

Poor, sick Americans are stuck in a Medicare-Medicaid maze. Is a fix in sight?

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Health Technology

How Patient Privacy Could Hurt AI

by Ryan Levi March 7, 2024December 26, 2024

Why one expert says too much focus on privacy could make health care AI biased and less effective.

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Health Law

How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

by Alex Olgin February 29, 2024January 14, 2025

Some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could wind up being worse for patients.

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Health Law

‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer.’

by Ryan Levi February 22, 2024May 6, 2025

A handful of states allow terminally ill patients to take life-ending medications. We talk with journalist Steven Petrow about his sister’s choice to use this option.

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Health Technology

Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools

by Leslie Walker February 15, 2024December 26, 2024

A doctor walks us through the risks and benefits of new cancer-detecting body scans and blood tests.

Three men — Tradeoffs host Dan Gorenstein, ONC Director Micky Tripathi and Oracle Health Government Services Chief Health Officer James Ellzy — sit on a stage.

Health Equity

Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI

by Ryan Levi and Dan Gorenstein February 8, 2024December 26, 2024

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.

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Health Law

5 Ways America’s Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024

by Alex Olgin February 1, 2024December 1, 2024

Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender-affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way health care is delivered in America.