The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso
Health care experts' podcasts on timely health policy topics.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 319
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Dr. Amol Navathe Discusses Medicare Fee for Service Policy Reforms (March 4th)
(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the third of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion with Dr. Amol Navathe was conducted in late Decem…
Stanford's Mark Jacobson's Discusses How the Healthcare Industry Can Eliminate Its Carbon Footprint (February 25th)
Per the essay I posted last week concerning federal policy makers' indifference toward the health harm imposed on Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries via the healthcare industry's carbon em…
Dr. Bob Berenson Discusses Healthcare's Pricing Problem and Potential Remedies (February 18th)
(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the second of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion with Dr. Berenson was conducted in mid-November.…
Co-Editor Dr. Howard Frumkin Discusses "Planetary Health, Protecting Nature To Protect Ourselves" (February 1st)
Last year Island Press published Planetary Health, Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves, considered the first textbook for the field of planetary health. As the title suggests, the work …
Dr. Steven Woolf Discusses How (Un)Healthy Are Americans (January 31st)
(As noted below on the podcast website this discussion is the first of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion with Dr. Woolf was conducted in early N…
221st Podcast: NRDC's Dr. Vijay Limaye Discusses Measuring the Health-Related Costs of the Climate Crisis (January 14, 2021)
2020 was yet another record setting temperature year tying 2016 as the warmest on record. 2020 was strikingly warmer than 2019, by about .75 degrees Fahrenheit, and some parts of Arctic we…
Prof. William Darity and Ms. Kirsten Mullen Discuss Their Recent Book, "From Here to Equality, Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century" (December 9th)
Listeners are aware social determinants significantly explain one's health, as much as 80%. Principally among these is economic status. Wealth positively correlates with health. As list…
Union of Concerned Scientists' Dr. Rachel Cleetus Discusses What the Biden Administration Needs to Do to Address the Climate Catastrophe (November 18th)
Catastrophic climate crisis effects continue to accelerate. Atmospheric carbon concentrations are now measured at 417 ppm, the greatest concentration of atmospheric carbon in our existenc…
Caleb Barlow Discusses Healthcare Industry Ransomware Attacks and Measures to Prevent Cybercrimes (October 27th)
Computer or cybercrimes against health care providers, moreover hospitals, disenable computer networks holding them for ransom, frequently for a bitcoin fee. Though these attacks date back…
John Gorman Discusses the Use of Opportunity Zones to Address Social Determinants (October 21st)
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has placed a spotlight on the social determinants of health (SDOH) - generally defined as health access and quality, education, economic circumstances, food se…
Climate Neutral's CEO Austin Whitman Discusses Industry Efforts to Go Green (September 30th)
Collectively termed subnationals, numerous academic institutions, states, cities and other local governments, companies, NGOS and other entities across the country have independently pledge…
Dr. David Mayer Discusses Patient Safety During the Time of COVID-19 (September 28th)
Patient safety, or preventable patient harm, remains a significant threat to patients, particularly seniors, now over 20 years after publication of the landmark IOM report, “To Err is Human…
Dr. Rachel Dolin Discusses the House Ways & Means Committee's Recent Report,"Under-Enforced and Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging America’s Nursing Homes” (August 27th)
In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2007, the FDA's Dr. David Graham stated, "15,000 elderly people in nursing homes [are] dying each year from the off-label use …
Dr. Charles Binkley Discusses Medical Ethics in the Time of COVID-19 (August 24th)
From an ethical perspective our nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous. For example, as has been widely reported, our nation has failed to protect the most vulnerab…
Dr. J. Mario Molina Discusses Medicaid Program Financing in Light of the On-Going COVID-19 Pandemic (August 11th)
Because the economy and the Medicaid program run counter cyclically or are negative correlated (when the economy falters, Medicaid enrollment increases ), to no one's surprise the COVID-19 …
Georgetown Professor Judy Feder Discusses Long Term Care Policy (July 29th)
Federal policymakers have struggled unsuccessfully since at least the 1980s to create a national long term care (LTC) policy. LTC coverage is available however it can only be obtained by p…
210th Podcast: Stanford's Paul Ehrlich Discusses the On-Going (and Accelerating) Sixth Mass Extinction (July 23rd)
Our planet is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction. Over the past 450 million years the planet has experienced five previous mass extinctions. Each of which destroyed or extin…
Georgetown's Prof JoAnn Volk Discusses Health Care Sharing Ministries (July 21st)
The Trump administration has strongly supported alternative insurance plans in the individual market or those that do not meeting regulatory requirements, for example providing what are def…
Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby Discusses Structural Racism in Health Care (July 8th)
Being endemic in the US, racism is pervasive in health care. It explains everything from the fact that the black to white infant mortality ratio has never dipped below to 2:1, to more gene…
ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra, Discusses the Need for a Congressionally-Created National Health Care Reform Commission (June 23rd)
The current public health emergency brings into stark relief US health care’s ineffectiveness. As previously noted, with 4.25% of the world’s population, the US currently accounts for 26% …