We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
Maternal Health
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Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths?
We explore the country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregnant people may have.
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How Requiring Insurers to Cover Autism Care Can Impact Schools
Jose Manuel Fernandez shares research on the impact on test scores and special education when Michigan required private coverage of autism spectrum disorder therapies.
Posted inHealth Equity
How Immigration Enforcement Can Affect Newborns’ Health
Sebastian Tello-Trillo shares research on the impact of immigration enforcement fears on babies born to undocumented parents.
Posted inPublic Health
The Role of Mental Shortcuts in the Delivery Room
Bapu Jena looks a new research on how doctors use quick mental shortcuts to decide how to deliver babies after complicated births.
Posted inMental Health
The Link Between Depression and Infant Health
Neel Shah writes about a new meta-analysis of studies connecting depression in pregnant people to adverse birth outcomes.
Posted inCost of Care
What Happens When Price Transparency Meets Childbirth?
Jamie Daw looks at new research showing the uptake of a hospital price transparency tool for childbirth and its associations with cost of care.
Posted inArticles
What we’re listening to this August
Explore the guest and rerun episodes we featured in the Tradeoffs podcast feed during our August 2021 hiatus.
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How Medicaid Helps The Next Generation
Atheendar Venkataramani writes about new research showing how Medicaid coverage can help someone who hasn’t even been born yet.
Posted inHealth Law
Straight to the People
From restricting abortion to legalizing marijuana, voters are weighing in on a variety of significant state health policy questions this election.