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Caption: Confusing Medicare ads are everywhere!, Credit: Leslie Walker/Tradeoffs
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
Caption: Bethany Snider encouraged her nonprofit hospice agency to participate in a federal experiment to revamp Medicare's 40-year-old hospice policy, but she worries about its potential unintended consequences., Credit: Jon Cherry for Tradeoffs.
About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, acce...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 20:42
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
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Will Senate Trump Impeachment Trial be a Sham or Credible Search for Trut...

Bought by WKPW and WPCA-LP


  • Added: Dec 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Elder abuse by marrying to obtain wealth is on the rise. Understand the inadequate and new laws surrounding the issue.

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 11:34
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Republicans Vow to Make Deep Cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medica...

Bought by WRIR, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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After serving almost three decades as on the Board of Monroe County Commissioners, she announced she won't be running for reelection

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 08:43
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It's essential that we raise Social Security benefits.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:19
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A former makeup artists to presidents and network anchors, Lillian Brown describes her career in getting public figures ready for their closeups.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 54:00