How Charitable are Nonprofit Hospitals?
A new Health Affairs study finds that as nonprofit hospitals’ earnings grow, their charity care spending fails to keep pace.
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What we’ve learned from federal efforts to fight HIV/AIDS
A recent NBER working paper compares the impact of public health funding for HIV/AIDS to other federal programs.
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The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid
We dig into three studies to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.
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The Conservative Clash Over Abortion Bans
Republican lawmakers in at least seven states are pushing to make their state abortion bans less restrictive.
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States’ Uphill Battle to Stop Runaway Health Care Costs
Health care prices went from secrets to the subject of public meetings in Massachusetts. Now other states are following suit to bend the cost curve.
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‘State plans to lower costs fall short ‘ Transcript February 9, 2023 Note: This transcript has been created with a combination of machine ears and human eyes. There may be small differences between this document and the audio version, which is one of many reasons we encourage you to listen to the episode! Listen in Apple Podcasts…
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‘A Shocking Amount of Misery’: Medical Debt in America
We talk about the impact medical debt can have on people’s lives and what research tells us about possible solutions.
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The ‘Wild West’ of Health Workforce Policy
The pandemic has reignited long-standing turf wars among health professions, and state lawmakers are caught in the middle.
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California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid
We trace the origins, early results and challenges of California’s ambitious new Medicaid initiative to pay for some non-medical services like connecting people to housing.
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