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. Azra Raza Discusses Her Recently Published Book, "The First Cell and the Human Costs of Pursing Cancer to the Last" (November 1st)
Dr. Azra Raza's recently published book, The First Cell and the Human Costs of Pursing Cancer to the Last, has been described as a "searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis…
Dr. Rick Doblin Discusses the Potential/Real Therapeutic Benefits of Psychedelic Agents (October 31st)
Psychedelic agents or drugs, for example Lysergic Acid Diethylamide or LSD (a cereal fungus and first synthesized in 1938), were widely researched for their therapeutic potential through th…
NHCHC's Bobby Watts and Barbara DePietro Discuss Health Care for the Homeless (October 24th)
Though difficult to accurately calculate for obvious reasons, the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) 2018 point-in-time survey identified over 550,000 individuals living …
Catalyst for Payment Reform's Suzanne Delbanco Discusses State Health Care Innovation (September 23rd)
Largely with the exception of the 2010 passage of the ACA, federal legislative (and regulatory) efforts to reform health care over the past few decades has lagged. This is the result of a…
Harvard's Michael Chernew Discusses the Administration's Hospital Price Transparency Efforts (September 12th)
In CMS' proposed hospital outpatient rule published in the Federal Register in early August, the agency proposed requiring hospitals to make public a list of its negotiated rates for common…
Dr. Lewis Cohen Discusses His Just-Published Book, "A Dignified Ending, Taking Control Over How We Die" (August 29th)
Medical aid in dying is now legal in nine states and the District of Columbia or is available to approximately one-fifth of the US population. State medical societies allow physicians to p…
Philip Alston, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Discusses His Recent Report, "Climate Change and Poverty" (August 28th)
In late June, Professor Philip Alston, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, published "Climate Change and Poverty." The 20-page report is unsparing in its criti…
Dr. Georges Benjamin Discusses the Climate Crisis and APHA's Center for Climate and Health (July 24th)
The news is grim. Our planet has just experienced its hottest June in recorded history and likely the hottest July. This year will likely join ten others since 2000 as the warmest ever re…
Dr. Mark Fendrick Discusses Value-Based Insurance Designs (July 19th)
One way to increase the value of insurance coverage is to eliminate or lower a patient's out of pocket costs (OOP), i.e., their co-pays and/or deductables, for health care services that are…
Katherine Eban Discusses Her Just-Published Work, "Bottle of Lies, The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom" (July 17th)
Nine in 10 prescriptions are today filled using a generic drug saving Americans tens of billions annually. A significant amount of generic drugs, along with active ingredients in all drug…
Brady President, Kris Brown, Discusses Current Policy Efforts to Curb Gun Violence (June 23rd)
US gun violence is, in one word, obscene. It is widely considered an epidemic, even the always cautious AMA termed it a "public health crisis" in 2016. Through the first five months of th…
Dr. Renee Salas Discusses Global Warming's Health Effects On Children (June 18th)
This past June 4th the 9th Circuit Court heard oral arguments concerning Juliana v. the US, a case filed in 2015 by 21 children seeking a jury verdict on whether the US government, by faili…
175th Interview: University of Michigan's Professor Andrew Ryan Discusses Measuring for Spending Efficiency or Value in Healthcare (June 11th)
Americans spend over $3.5 trillion or 6% of the GDP annually on health care. One third, or over $1 trillion, of that spending is considered waste, i.e., health care that does not improve o…
Natural Climate Solutions: The Nature Conservancy's Jennifer Tabola Discusses Its New Initiative to Address Climate Change (May 8th)
It should go without stating "nature's contribution to people are vital to human existence." Nevertheless, this was the third line in the May 6th report by the UN Intergovernmental Science…
Kaiser's Kathy Gerwig Discusses Her Organization's Effort to Go Carbon Neutral By Next Year Improving the Lives of Millions (May 3rd)
After the food industry health care is considered this country's second largest emitter of green house gas (GHG) pollution. With emissions equal to approximately 655m metric tons of CO2 eq…
Are Federal Regulators Panicked Over the Increased Use of E-Cigarettes Among Adolescents: A Conversation With Prof. David Abrams (April 23rd)
The e-cigarette market, or what the FDA formally terms Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems or ENDS, has grown since 2004 to approximately 11 million American consumers. Recent survey data…
Ann Neumann Discusses Mercy Killings or Suicide-Homicides (April 15th)
In 2017 more than 47,000 Americans committed suicide. While suicide rates decreased during the 1980s and 1990s, they have increased by 33% over the past two decades. Today they are one of…
Harold Miller Discusses Improving Medicare's Alternative Payment Models (April 9th)
Medicare's Fee for Service Alternative Payment Models (APMs), a creation of 2015 MACRA legislation, currently 12 in number with participation largely voluntary, requires Medicare providers …
Interview with America's Health Insurance Plans' (AHIP) CEO Matt Eyles (March 19th)
Despite gains made under the ACA, health insurance coverage in the US remains fraught with problems. Over 28 million non-elderly remain uninsured. Health care spending is extreme. Health…
David Wallace Wells Discusses His Just-Published "The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming" (February 28th)
For this, my 168th interview, David Wallace Wells discusses his just-published book, "The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming." Listeners may recall I interviewed Mr. Wallace Wells on …