Health Affairs This Week Podcast
1) Healthcare Storytelling and Digital Health Investment Trends | Christina Farr
Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Christina Farr, CEO and editor-in-chief of Second Opinion Media, back to the pod to discuss her book, The Storyteller's Advantage: How Powerful Narratives Make Busi...Show More
2) Sweeping Affordable Care Act Changes Proposed for 2027 (Katie Keith)
Health Affairs’ Jeff Byers welcomes Georgetown University’s Katie Keith back to the podcast to break down the newly proposed HHS rule that could bring major changes to the ACA beginning in 2027.They d...Show More
3) 2025 Dietary Guidelines: Protein, Policy, and the Ultra-Processed Foods Problem
Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes dietitian Jenny Lo from Wellness and Sports Dietetics to discuss the recently revised dietary guidelines for Americans. They discuss what's changed, the emphasis on...Show More
4) Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reforms Are (Finally) Afoot
Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad back to the pod to discuss the recently passed $1.2 trillion spending appropriations bill, its included reforms for pharmacy benefit m...Show More
5) What Health Policy Katie Keith Is Watching In 2026
Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Katie Keith of Georgetown Law and Deputy Editor Chris Fleming to the pod to discuss what to watch out for in 2026 for health policy. The conversation touches on Aff...Show More
6) Behind Epic's Latest Antitrust Lawsuit (Gabriel Perna)
Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Gabriel Perna, Deputy Editor of Digital Health Business & Technology at Modern Healthcare, to the pod to discuss Epic Systems, how they became one of the leading Am...Show More
7) The Great Health Care Vision Board (Stacie Dusetzina)
On an emergency pod episode, Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Stacie Dusetzina of Vanderbilt University Medical Center to breakdown the recently unveiled The Great Healthcare Plan from the Trump ad...Show More
8) It's Not the Prices, Stupid. Michael Chernew on US Health Expenditures
Health Affairs' Jeff Byers is joined by Michael Chernew from Harvard Medical School to explore the recent 2024 health care spending report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).To ...Show More
9) Keeping ACO Models Accountable
Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Rachel Bonesteel of Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy to the pod to discuss her recent Forefront article focused on how ACO REACH enabled ACOs to participate i...Show More
10) How Are States Even Affording Health Care Costs?
Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter.Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Nathan Hostert of The Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research at Brown University to the po...Show More