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The pandemic exposed stark inequalities around the world, especially in terms of vaccine access, leading to the deaths of untold thousands in the g...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 27:55
A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 19:17
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 21:12
Congress is considering whether to override a VA policy that says veterans who need financial fiduciaries may be reported to the FBI’s background c...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 4
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...
- Added: Nov 15, 2023
- Length: 29:50
Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Con...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 9
Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 21:56
Medicare is in the midst of a pretty dramatic transformation. Before long, two out of every three enrollees will likely have a private Medicare Adv...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 24:09
- Purchases: 1
Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups.
This week, we explain an old policy gathering...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 17:51
A Council on Academic Freedom launched at Harvard March 2023 and has some similar goals to a panel I helped create with Yale President Peter Salove...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 35:37
The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 14:07
We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 16:55
- Purchases: 1
Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans.
This week, reporter Alice Miranda...
- Added: Mar 13, 2023
- Length: 19:26
Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 11:27
People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to so...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 26:10
Medicare’s historic plan to slow prescription drug spending is taking shape. Last Thursday federal health officials began detailing how one of two ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 13:51
One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...
- Added: Feb 10, 2023
- Length: 17:45
At issue: Should ex-troops continue to face consequences for refusing the vaccine order, even though the order has been rescinded?
Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, North Country Public Radio, KUT, KMXT and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 6
A congressional ban on removing anyone from Medicaid will expire early next year. What will happen to people who lose their coverage, and how are s...
- Added: Jan 23, 2023
- Length: 18:50
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 19:19
Lawyers are aggressively advertising potential windfalls for people exposed to contaminated water at the base. But it's too soon to know how the cl...
Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KWMU St. Louis, KTEP, and KUT
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 5
We visit southern Europe with our partners at The Response podcast to see how communities are tackling the problem of energy poverty.
Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 32:45
The Pentagon said unvaccinated guardsmen won't get paid and can't participate in federally-funded deployments, but some states are concerned that w...
Bought by KRPS, KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and KUT
- Added: Aug 05, 2022
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 5
