Tradeoffs Podcast
1) This Federal Experiment Is Pouring Money into Mental Hospitals. Will It Work?
As states struggle to meet the needs of people with serious mental illness, some are signing on to a federal pilot project that’s funneling new funding into institutional care.Guests:Alex Barnard, Ass...Show More
2) Getting Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants in Trump's America
Worrying about deportation can literally make people sick. Health care providers are scrambling to cut through their undocumented patients’ panic about President Trump’s new immigration policies.Guest...Show More
3) Trump Forced Hospitals and Insurers to Reveal Their Prices. What Happened?
A mandate to make health care prices public was one of President Trump’s signature health policies in his first term. But forcing hospitals to publish prices hasn’t yet helped patients shop around for...Show More
4) How One Company Gamified Health Insurance
One organization turns to a game to get employees to debate and decide together what health care they most value. Guests:Paul Fronstin, Ph.D., Director, Health Benefits Research, Employee Benefit...Show More
5) The Medicaid Policy Red and Blue States Agree On
More than half of states — from deep blue California to solidly red Louisiana — want to bring Medicaid behind bars in hopes of saving the lives of people as they leave jail and prison.Guests:Lee ReedS...Show More
6) One Scientist's Mission to Change How We Prevent Overdoses
A leading addiction expert explains how he’s driven by the memory of a friend who died, and why he believes giving data on the drug supply to people on the street is more important than using it to in...Show More
7) A Rural Hospital in Kentucky Prepares for Medicaid Losses
Harrison Memorial Hospital in Cynthiana, Kentucky is already taking a hard look at its budget in light of Republican cuts to Medicaid. Here’s what that looks like.Guest:David Asher, Chief Strategy Off...Show More
8) What It’s Like to Be Transgender in Trump’s America
How the federal government has restricted health care access for transgender Americans, and how those shifts in policy and rhetoric are changing life for one Alabama family.Guests:Orion Rummler, LGBTQ...Show More
9) As the Big Beautiful Bill Becomes Law, States Face a ‘Daunting’ Rollout
North Carolina’s former health secretary explains the heavy lift and hard choices ahead of states as they rush to put Republicans' new health reforms in place.Guest:Kody Kinsley, Senior Policy Advisor...Show More
10) How Two Supreme Court Rulings Affect the ACA, Planned Parenthood and the Future of Preventive Care
Health law expert Katie Keith helps us break down what a pair of big court decisions mean for RFK Jr.’s power and for people's access to abortion, cancer screening and many other kinds of care.Guest:K...Show More