Episodios

  • Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
    Apr 2 2026

    The administration is looking to former health care executive Chris Klomp to help RFK Jr. get Trump’s health agenda back on track.


    Guest:

    Dan Diamond, White House Reporter, Washington Post


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    21 m
  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
    Mar 26 2026

    The Supreme Court is set to hear Hikma v. Amarin, a battle over drug patents that could raise costs for patients and change the way generic companies do business.


    Guests:

    • Hans Sauer, adjunct professor, Georgetown Law; former vice president of intellectual property, Biotechnology Innovation Organization
    • Sean Tu, professor of law, University of Alabama
    • Dennies Varughese, partner; Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein and Fox
    • Leslie Walker, senior reporter, Tradeoffs


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    24 m
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom
    Mar 19 2026

    Our friends at The Pulse from WHYY explore the economics behind the rise of urgent care and how it’s changing American medicine.


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    39 m
  • ‘It Sucks’: Spiking Health Insurance Costs Hit Small Businesses
    Mar 12 2026

    An employer in Chicago describes how another year of rising premiums forced her to consider dropping her workers’ insurance.


    Guest:

    Rachel Bernier-Green, Founder and CEO, EJ Consortium


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    21 m
  • 'We Can’t Afford All These Humans’: A Doctor's Take on AI in Health Care
    Mar 5 2026


    We talk with physician and writer Bob Wachter about why he’s cautiously optimistic that artificial intelligence will usher in a ‘golden age’ of medicine — and the questions he still has about these powerful new tools.


    Guest:

    • Bob Wachter, Chair, Department of Medicine, UC San Francisco; Author, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future


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    26 m
  • Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care
    Feb 26 2026

    Patients are afraid to show up to medical appointments, while workers are being detained, deported or losing their visa statuses.


    Guests:

    • Sahida Martinez, promotora, Enlace
    • Jadhira Sanchez, director of community health, Enlace
    • Steph Willding, CEO, CommunityHealth
    • Jordan Herring, Postdoctoral scholar, Emergency medicine, Stanford
    • Hannah Janeway, Emergency medicine physician, Los Angeles
    • Laura Messineo, CNO, WorldWide HealthStaff Solutions


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    26 m
  • As States and CDC Split on Vaccines, What's Next?
    Feb 19 2026

    Half of states have rejected federal vaccine guidance on childhood vaccines after controversial changes by the CDC. Public health experts say the split is sowing confusion and increasing the risk of outbreaks.


    Guests:

    • Michelle Fiscus, physician, chief medical officer, Association of Immunization Managers
    • Jen Kates, senior vice president; director, global and public health policy, KFF
    • Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett, physician, health officer, Washington Department of Health
    • Philip Landrigan, physician and director, program for global public health and the common good, Boston College
    • Dorit Reiss, law professor, University of California, San Francisco


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    20 m
  • A Better Way to Care for Older Adults with Opioid Addiction
    Feb 12 2026

    How one addiction clinic in Baltimore has found success combining addiction care with support for the many other health problems older Americans often face.


    Guests:

    • Malik Burnett, Medical Director, REACH Health Services
    • Lisa Clemans-Cope, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute
    • Renee Gray, Patient, REACH Health Services
    • Phyllis Lindsay, Peer Recovery Specialist, REACH Health Services
    • Maggie Lowenstein, Assistant Professor, Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    • Vickie Walters, Executive Director, REACH Health Services


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    25 m