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
Interviewer as Interviewee: David Introcaso Answers Listeners' Questions (June 17th) (Part II)
Since I've received and answered questions via email concerning podcast interviews and related health care policy questions over the past eight years, I thought it might be it might be usef…
Mary Paier Powers Discusses What Family Caregivers Should Consider During the Pandemic When a Relative Is Resident in a Long Term Care Facility (June 5th)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had particularly fatal effect on seniors or the frail elderly residing in Long Term Care (LTC) facilities, e.g., in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF_ or in assisted…
Jennifer Kent, Former Director of the California Dept. of Health Care Services, Discusses California's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (June 2nd)
Since the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic remains, as the The New England Journal of Medicine termed last week, laconic, the US response continues to be best understo…
The Sabin Center's Michael Burger Discusses the Administration's Dismantling of Environmental Protections (May 29th)
It should go without saying that we interact with the environment constantly. It should also go without saying a degraded environment compromises our health and leaves us less resilient. …
Interviewer as Interviewee: David Introcaso Answers Listeners' Questions (May 27th) (Part I)
Since I've received and answered questions via email concerning podcast interviews and related health care policy questions over the past eight years, I thought it might be it might be usef…
Howard Friedman Discusses His Recently Published Book, "Ultimate Price, The Value We Place on Life" (May 12th)
Considering how the COVID-19 pandemic has been addressed by federal policy makers, e.g., the US, with 4.25% of the world's population, accounts for approximately 30% of worldwide deaths, th…
Krista Drobac Discusses Sweeping Changes in Federal Telehealth Policy In Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 27th)
Listeners may be aware that up until recently the Medicare program strictly limited provider use of telehealth services via originating site and other numerous other regulatory rules despit…
200th Podcast Interview: Dr. Rishi Desai Discusses the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 13th)
Now, exactly one month after President Trump declared a national emergency, the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been largely inept. As of April 12th, the pandemi…
Daniel Dawes Discusses His Just-Published, "The Political Determinants of Health" (March 25th)
It is altogether appropriate to discuss the political determinants of health since this past Monday we marked the ten year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law was intend…
Dr. Dan Blazer Discusses the National Academy of Sciences Just-Published, "Social Isolation and Loneliness in Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System" (March 24th)
Increasing social isolation and loneliness have been recognized for several decades. The issues was the topic of Harvard’s Robert Putnam’s much publicized research three decades ago, i.e.,…
CBPP's Dr. Joseph Llobrera Discusses the Administration's Proposed Cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (March 10th)
Despite the fact the US is a net food exporter, the country suffers a significant food security problem (defined as uncertain of having or unable to acquire enough food). Per the USDA, ove…
Archway Health's Keely Macmillan Discusses Medicare Bundled Payment Performance (February 19th)
CMS' efforts, via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), to develop episode-based bundled payment models in Medicare is now it its eight year. This work is currently bei…
Andrea Rodgers Discusses the Recent 9th Circuit Court Decision in Juliana v the US (February 10th)
This past January 17 the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Juliana v the US. Filed in 2015 by 21 children and others, the plaintiffs argued health harm caused by the federal governmen…
Dr. Peter Cram Discusses Health Care Delivery In Canada (January 13th)
Considering the frequent favorable assessment of Canadian health care of late, by, for example, several presidential candidates and (surprisingly) the Trump administration via its recent de…
Andrea Freeman Discusses Her Just-Published Book, "Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice" (January 9th)
Professor Andrea Freeman's recently published, Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice, explains how and why Non-Hispanic Black women are significantly less likely to breastfeed their ne…
Harvard's Dr. Renee Salas Discusses the 2019 "Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change" Report (December 11th)
The 2019 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (subtitled, Ensuring That the Health of a Child Born Today is not Defined by a Changing Climate), released in mid-November, identifies…
SIDM's Paul Epner Discusses the Pervasive Problem of Medical Misdiagnoses (December 3rd)
Twenty years ago last month the National Academy of Sciences published the landmark report, “To Err Is Human, Building a Safer Health System.” The report found upwards of 98,000 people die…
190th Podcast Interview: the FDA's Captain Valerie Jensen Discusses Remedying the Drug Shortage Problem (November 20th)
On October 31st, the FDA released the agency's Congressionally-mandated report titled, “Drug Shortages: Root Causes and Potential Solutions.” The 124-pg report found drug shortages are inc…
Chris Palmieri Discusses CCA's Efforts to Provide Its Patients Social Service Supports (November 14th)
As has been widely reported the US spends upwards of twice what other OCED countries on medical care however with worse or similar outcomes. What explains this is in part the fact the US s…
CMS' Dr. Kate Goodrich Discusses Measuring and Rewarding for Value (or Spending Efficiency) Under Medicare's Forthcoming MVPs Program (November 13th)
On November 1st, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the agency's final 2020 Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule that announced beginning in 2021 CMS will begin in…