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California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving their health. This week, we trace the origins, early results and challenges of “CalAIM.”
Guests:
Jacey Cooper, Director, California Medicaid Program
Bradley Gilbert, MD, MPP, Former Chief Medical Officer and CEO, Inland Empire Health Plan
Lacy McClellan
Dale Stout
Anthony Wright, Executive Director, Health Access California
Paula Lantz, PhD, James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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The Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers to control prescription drug prices. We go inside the government’s race to implement these new powers — and the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to blunt their impact.
Guests:
Alice Valder Curran, JD, Partner, Hogan Lovells
Sean Dickson, JD, MPH, Director of Health Policy, West Health Policy Center
Amber Jessup, PhD, Chief Economist, Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services
Mark Newsom, Founder and Principal, Health Evaluations
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Independent abortion funds have been flooded with donations since Roe v. Wade was overturned. How do these funds work and what role will they play in a post-Roe world?
Guests:
Brittany Mostiller, Leadership Development Coordinator, National Network of Abortion Funds
Gretchen Ely, PhD, MSW, Director of PhD Program, University of Tennessee College of Social Work
Kim Floren, Director, Justice Through Empowerment Network
Erin Smith, Executive Director, Kentucky Justice Health Network
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The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggest will happen to people who are denied abortions in a post-Roe world.
Guests:
Diana Foster Green, director of research at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health
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Our annual look back at some of the best health care podcast episodes of the year with help from a few of our podcast host friends.
Guests:
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Policymaker in Residence, University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and host of America Dissected
Keris Myrick, Vice President of Partnerships, Inseparable and host of Unapologetically Black Unicorn
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More than $50 billion in opioid settlement dollars from drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies is starting to flow to state and local governments and they need to figure out how to spend it.
Guests:
Dave Baker, Minnesota State Representative and chair of the state’s Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council
Sara Whaley, Opioid Policy Researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @saraewhaley
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Black Americans are at higher risk for many serious illnesses like dementia and kidney failure. But data show they are less likely to have their pain treated and less likely to access services like hospice and palliative care that can reduce suffering, especially at the end of life.
This week, we explore what stops seriously ill Black patients and their families from getting the care they want in life and in death.
Guests:
Deborah Brunson, PhD, Caregiver and Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW, Professor, Boston College School of Social Work
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Even though more Americans than ever have health insurance, medical debt is a pervasive problem in the United States.
Guests:
Noam Levey, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
Wesley Yin, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics, UCLA
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An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.
Guests
Therese Humphrey Ball, Multiple sclerosis patient and advocate.
Juliette Cubanski, Deputy Director for Program on Medicare Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse. Could providing long-term care workers with new career pathways be part of the solution?
Guests:
Serena Maria, Manager of Care Teams, Homebridge
Mark Burns, Executive Director, Homebridge
Natasha Bryant, Senior Director of Workforce Research and Strategy, LeadingAge LTSS Center at UMass Boston
Jonathan Gruber, PhD, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT
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