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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
Caption: Precious Mae Clark reviews her medical bills.
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
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Therese Humphrey Ball has struggled to afford her multiple sclerosis medications since her diagnosis in 2003., Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis for Tradeoffs
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
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A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 17:33
Caption: Liana Wolk (L) and Owen Marshall at their wedding in May 2019. Owen is one of 5 million Americans stuck in the “family glitch.” , Credit: Molly Haley
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 18:40
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The impact of charging people to use Medicaid and how phasing out premiums could threaten one state’s Medicaid expansion.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 20:23
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More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 23:30
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Democrats are on the brink of passing a historic set of drug price reforms. How will they impact patients, insurers and the drug industry?

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
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Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Russian advertising campaigns on American social media campaigns during last year's Presidential Election.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2017
  • Length: 33:12
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How to Fix U.S. explores the two-party system and a simple change that's gaining traction to end Republican and Democratic dominance.

  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 07:29
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Plus: Buying Life Insurance Is About To Change Dramatically, Interest Rate Forecast For 2017: Predicting The Unpredictable, Let The IRS Help You Bu...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Allen Wilson, 59, says he has debt collectors calling him over bills that should have been paid by Anthem, his former HIP 2.0 insurer., Credit: Jake Harper / Side Effects
Expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income Americans was a major component of the Affordable Care Act, and under then-Governor Mike Pence, Seema V...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Plus: How To Rock Your Employee Benefits, Dread The Money Talk With Your Aging Parents? Everything You Must Know Before You Get Married, and Alert!...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Want To Know How To Invest Well? First, Learn The Language, What Is Going To Happen To Your Money After The Election? The Best Value Of Your Car? ...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Winter Is Coming....Keep Your Money Safe, Why The Business Of Picking Stocks May NOT Be Dying, What Happens After The Election?

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Winter Is Coming....Keep Your Money Safe, Why The Business Of Picking Stocks May NOT Be Dying, What Happens After The Election? If You Flip Houses...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Plus: Barbara Corcoran Reveals A Most Shocking Shark Tank Ever, The Business Of Picking Stocks May Be Dying, The Tax Game For Avoiding Audits, Livi...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5