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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
College is now ridiculously expensive and students are in hock up to their eyebrows. President Biden wants to help -- but the Supremes have stopped...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- 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
Life is changing quickly for people in Hong Kong
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
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
It’s Women’s History month, and the feds are banning government agencies from using salary history to set the pay of new hires. Why? If you start ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Trump was President from 2016 To 2020, but he’s never won an election. He lost the nationwide popular vote in 2016, but still made it to the White ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 03:00
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
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
Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?
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- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 18:02
- Purchases: 1
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
January 22 marks the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, when the court ruled abortion was legal under U.S....
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Many great women snagged honors this year, from athletics to movies, science and more, and we lost a few great ones too. But one gets our personal...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 03:00
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
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...
- Added: Nov 12, 2023
- Length: 03:00
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
Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Private...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 19:15
The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
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
In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 24:29
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
Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 20:47
Educating our young population today, is akin to parenting, perhaps the second most difficult profession to master. To the layperson, it might appe...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 06:29
