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We all have to buy groceries, household goods, and a fair amount of fast food. But are we getting what we pay for, or a hidden swindle?
- Added: May 12, 2024
- Length: 03:00
This month on Climate Connections how Miami-Dade County is protecting public housing residents from dangerous heat waves, man converts his home to ...
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- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 17
College is now ridiculously expensive and students are in hock up to their eyebrows. President Biden wants to help -- but the Supremes have stopped...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2024
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
This month on Climate Connections schools in coal country are going solar, some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fish...
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- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 20
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
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 18:49
One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 22:59
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
California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 16:55
A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 16:39
Maybe you can't change world affairs, but there’s lots you can do to make things better right here in the USA, no matter where you live.
Make a Di...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 02:45
This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 17:02
Rockefeller, Astor, Carnegie, Stanford. Rich guys from the late 1900s for sure, but what else? Robber barons. Big boys at the top of U.S. business,...
- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 03:00
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 15:52
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 new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 16:32
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.
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- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 16:55
- Purchases: 1
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 24:21
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
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 20:23
- Purchases: 1
After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 18:07
Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 14:24
