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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
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
Governor Ron DeSantis unexpectedly withdraws from the presidential race, citing personal reasons and hinting at family health issues, reshaping the...
- Added: Jan 21, 2024
- Length: 10:43
The dangers of conflict reporting past and present
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
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
In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 29:30
Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
In this episode, we explore the Bay Area housing market, and how mass corporate ownership of homes and apartments throughout the region affects com...
- Added: Oct 27, 2022
- Length: 29:30
Talking Alaska's elections and polarizing politics, launching on the state's 2022 Primary Day and Special Election Day. Featuring Independent Alask...
- Added: Aug 16, 2022
- Length: 29:14
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
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
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
We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.
- Added: May 02, 2022
- Length: 16:53
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
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
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
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
Co-host Ray Suarez explores one of the underlying tensions that fuels the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by focusing on a single house in East Jerusale...
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat has spent her career warning about the stealth strategies authoritarian leaders use to gain power. In her new book, Strong...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In this episode, we talk with John Wood, Jr., national ambassador for Braver Angels, an organization also working to build relationships across the...
- Added: Oct 16, 2020
- Length: 29:30
