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Tradeoffs is an award-winning nonprofit news organization on a mission to help the folks on Main Street, Wall Street and Capitol Hill have smarter, more honest conversations about health policy. 


Founded in 2019 by former Senior Health Care Reporter at Marketplace, Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs’ journalism combines data, evidence and storytelling to help people better understand the complicated, costly and often counterintuitive world of health care.


Learn more about us and find transcripts for each episode at https://tradeoffs.org




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Episode Date
Trump Forced Hospitals and Insurers to Reveal Their Prices. What Happened?
Dec 19, 2024
Everyone’s Mad at Health Insurers, But 'There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around'
Dec 12, 2024
Presenting: First Opinion: Mark Cuban
Dec 05, 2024
Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?
Nov 28, 2024
What Could RFK Jr. Do As Head of HHS? We Asked Someone Who’s Done the Job
Nov 21, 2024
Health Care for Transgender Youth Goes to the Supreme Court
Nov 14, 2024
How Did Picking a Medicare Plan Get So Hard?
Nov 07, 2024
What the Election Could Mean for Obamacare
Oct 31, 2024
3 Health Care Decisions Awaiting the Next President
Oct 24, 2024
How New York Times Columnist Paula Span Navigates ‘The New Old Age’
Oct 17, 2024
Why Employers Are Turning to Primary Care as Health Care Costs Soar
Oct 10, 2024
The Best Way to Fight Meth Addiction? Gift Cards
Oct 03, 2024
Race to the Bottom: Where's the Cavalry?
Sep 26, 2024
Race to the Bottom: Hard Bargain
Sep 19, 2024
Race to the Bottom: Boom Times
Sep 12, 2024
How One Company Gamified Health Insurance
Sep 05, 2024
‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer.’
Aug 29, 2024
Presenting: Lost Patients: Churn
Aug 22, 2024
What to Expect When Medicare and Pharma Finally Negotiate Drug Prices
Aug 15, 2024
Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
Aug 08, 2024
The Fifth Branch: The Last Line of Care
Aug 01, 2024
The Fifth Branch: Keeping People Safe
Jul 25, 2024
The Fifth Branch: Convincing the Cops
Jul 18, 2024
Tradeoffs Presents: The Fifth Branch
Jul 11, 2024
BONUS: The Court’s Big Abortion Decisions Are Out. What Now?
Jun 28, 2024
Why Supporting Caregivers Could Make A Difference in Dementia Care
Jun 27, 2024
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
Jun 20, 2024
Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage
Jun 13, 2024
A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
Jun 06, 2024
A Telehealth Report Card: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t
May 30, 2024
How ‘Random Acts of Medicine’ Shape Our Health Care
May 23, 2024
Is Private Equity Ruining Health Care? It's Complicated.
May 16, 2024
The Hunt for Lasting Fixes to America’s Medical Debt Crisis
May 09, 2024
Patients Push to Shape the Future of AI
May 02, 2024
How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?
Apr 25, 2024
An Insurance Company Bought This Doctor’s Practice. She’s Worried About Her Patients
Apr 18, 2024
92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned
Apr 11, 2024
Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?
Apr 04, 2024
Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess
Mar 28, 2024
One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities
Mar 21, 2024
Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?
Mar 14, 2024
How Patient Privacy Could Hurt AI
Mar 07, 2024
How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire
Feb 29, 2024
‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer.’
Feb 22, 2024
Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
Feb 15, 2024
Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI
Feb 08, 2024
5 Ways America's Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024
Feb 01, 2024
Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
Jan 25, 2024
Tradeoffs in 2024
Jan 18, 2024
What to Expect When Medicare and Pharma Finally Negotiate Drug Prices
Jan 11, 2024
Losing a Hospital
Jan 04, 2024
Presenting STAT’s First Opinion: How Two Abortion Providers Grapple with Their Post-Roe Reality
Dec 28, 2023
One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
Dec 21, 2023
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2
Dec 14, 2023
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1
Dec 07, 2023
The Stories That Made an Impact in 2023
Nov 30, 2023
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
Nov 16, 2023
Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?
Nov 09, 2023
What Brings You In Today?
Nov 02, 2023
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
Oct 26, 2023
Medical or Recreational? States Debate Where Psychedelics Belong
Oct 19, 2023
Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess
Oct 12, 2023
Ransomware Attacks: Bad for Hospitals, Deadly for Patients
Oct 05, 2023
Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage
Sep 28, 2023
The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid
Sep 21, 2023
Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?
Sep 14, 2023
When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
Sep 07, 2023
Better Care at Lower Costs: The Quest for Health Care’s Holy Grail
Aug 31, 2023
Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis
Aug 24, 2023
The Push to Bring Medicaid Behind Bars
Aug 17, 2023
States’ Uphill Battle to Stop Runaway Health Care Costs
Aug 10, 2023
One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy
Aug 03, 2023
What to Expect When Medicare and Pharma Finally Negotiate Drug Prices
Jul 27, 2023
What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
Jul 20, 2023
Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
Jul 13, 2023
One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
Jul 06, 2023
1.5 Million People Have Lost Medicaid. How Worried Should We Be?
Jun 29, 2023
‘No Place Else To Go’: Inside a Former Abortion Clinic
Jun 22, 2023
The Meteoric Rise of Private Medicare Advantage Insurance
Jun 15, 2023
What Gas Stoves, Minimum Wage Laws and the Military Teach Us About Health Policy
Jun 08, 2023
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2
Jun 01, 2023
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1
May 25, 2023
The Hurdles Facing Black Families Navigating Serious Illness
May 18, 2023
The ‘Reverse Disparity’ in Psychosis Care
May 11, 2023
The Wonky Policy That’s Got Hospitals on High Alert
May 04, 2023
How ‘Random Acts of Medicine’ Shape Our Health Care
Apr 27, 2023
The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity
Apr 20, 2023
Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis
Apr 13, 2023
The Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act
Apr 06, 2023
The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid
Mar 30, 2023
When Home Becomes a Hospital
Mar 23, 2023
‘A Shocking Amount of Misery’: Medical Debt in America
Mar 16, 2023
The Conservative Clash Over Abortion Bans
Mar 09, 2023
BONUS: The Return of Our Research Newsletter
Mar 07, 2023
SCOTUS Weighs Medicaid Recipients' Right to Sue
Mar 02, 2023
The Push to Bring Medicaid Behind Bars
Feb 23, 2023
Medicare Director Meena Seshamani on CMS' New Drug Pricing Powers
Feb 16, 2023
States’ Uphill Battle to Stop Runaway Health Care Costs
Feb 09, 2023
One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy
Feb 02, 2023
BONUS: CMS Approves Medicaid Coverage for Inmates
Jan 27, 2023
The End of Humira’s $200 Billion Drug Monopoly
Jan 26, 2023
Three Health Policy Stories to Watch in 2023
Jan 19, 2023
Tradeoffs in 2023
Jan 12, 2023
Turning Long-Term Care Into a Long-Term Career
Jan 05, 2023
California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid
Dec 29, 2022
The Race to Prepare for Medicare’s New Drug Pricing Powers
Dec 22, 2022
Abortion Funds’ Growing Role Post-Roe
Dec 15, 2022
What Research Says About a Post-Roe World
Dec 08, 2022
Best Health Care Podcasts of 2022
Dec 01, 2022
Local Officials Grapple With How to Spend Opioid Settlement Dollars
Nov 17, 2022
The Hurdles Facing Black Families Navigating Serious Illness
Nov 10, 2022
‘A Shocking Amount of Misery’: Medical Debt in America
Nov 03, 2022
Medicare’s Prescription Drug Plan Makeover
Oct 27, 2022
Turning Long-Term Care Into a Long-Term Career
Oct 20, 2022
The ‘Wild West’ of Health Workforce Policy
Oct 13, 2022
The Next Chapter in Democratizing America’s Health Data
Oct 06, 2022
The Push to End Cancer Screening Purgatory
Sep 29, 2022
California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid
Sep 22, 2022
Presenting The Nocturnists: Hello Shame
Sep 15, 2022
The Race to Prepare for Medicare’s New Drug Pricing Powers
Sep 08, 2022
Fixing the Obamacare 'Glitch' That Pushed One Couple to Divorce
Sep 01, 2022
Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets
Aug 25, 2022
Has Medicaid Managed Care Delivered On Its Promise?
Aug 18, 2022
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
Aug 11, 2022
Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
Aug 04, 2022
A New Era in the Fight Over Medicaid Premiums
Jul 28, 2022
Abortion Funds’ Growing Role Post-Roe
Jul 21, 2022
BONUS: Talking 988 with The Takeaway
Jul 16, 2022
Answering the Call, Part 3: America's New Crisis Line Goes Live
Jul 14, 2022
Answering the Call, Part 2: Struggling to Staff the Nation’s New Crisis Line
Jul 13, 2022
Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line
Jul 12, 2022
Good Intentions Gone Awry
Jul 07, 2022
What Research Says About a Post-Roe World
Jun 30, 2022
The Personal and Political Fight to Keep Abortion Legal in Michigan
Jun 23, 2022
America’s Chronic Drug Shortage Problem
Jun 16, 2022
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
Jun 09, 2022
Answering the Call, Part 2: Struggling to Staff the Nation’s New Crisis Line
Jun 02, 2022
Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths?
May 26, 2022
Fixing the Obamacare 'Glitch' That Pushed One Couple to Divorce
May 19, 2022
Presenting Color Code: Dismantling Medical Racism Starts in the Classroom
May 12, 2022
How One Doctor Is Prepping for a World Without Roe
May 05, 2022
Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets
Apr 28, 2022
The Sky-High Price of Insulin and What Lawmakers Are Trying to Do About It
Apr 21, 2022
How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
Apr 14, 2022
Immunocompromised in a COVID-Weary World
Apr 07, 2022
Inside Big Health Insurers’ Side Hustle
Mar 31, 2022
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
Mar 24, 2022
A New Era in the Fight Over Medicaid Premiums
Mar 17, 2022
Presenting Sick: Screaming in the Shower
Mar 10, 2022
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
Mar 03, 2022
Peter Lee on Obamacare, Covered California and Where We Go Next With Health Care
Feb 24, 2022
The FDA Super Bowl
Feb 17, 2022
Off Script: One Pharmacist's COVID Woes and Wins
Feb 10, 2022
Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line
Feb 03, 2022
Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
Jan 27, 2022
Medicare’s Unprecedented Alzheimer’s Drug Decision
Jan 20, 2022
What's Ahead for Tradeoffs
Jan 13, 2022
One Woman’s Year Surviving the Pandemic with a Disability
Jan 06, 2022
A New Era of Gun Violence Research
Dec 30, 2021
Health Care's Ransomware Wake-Up Call
Dec 23, 2021
Presenting An Arm and A Leg: The Insurance Warrior
Dec 16, 2021
The Best Health Care Podcasts of 2021
Dec 09, 2021
Presenting Playbook Deep Dive: Biden's Abortion Clash with the Catholic Church
Dec 02, 2021
Rethinking Telehealth's Role in Treating Addiction
Nov 18, 2021
Let’s Make a Deal…on Drug Prices
Nov 11, 2021
Has Medicaid Managed Care Delivered On Its Promise?
Nov 04, 2021
The Costly, Confusing Medicare Choices Facing 62 Million Americans
Oct 28, 2021
Biden's $400 Billion Bet on Caring for Older and Disabled Americans at Home
Oct 21, 2021
COVID's Push and Pull on the Public Health Workforce
Oct 14, 2021
Can Democrats Reconcile Their Health Policy Differences?
Oct 07, 2021
How Do We Keep the Nursing Shortage From Getting Worse?
Sep 30, 2021
Inside Big Health Insurers’ Side Hustle
Sep 23, 2021
Employers Grapple With Fear, Uncertainty and Vaccine Mandates
Sep 16, 2021
The Next Big Challenge to Abortion Rights
Sep 09, 2021
Schools Brace For Pandemic-Fueled Mental Health Needs
Sep 02, 2021
Catching America's Top Cancer Killer
Aug 26, 2021
Calling the Shots: Should Employers Mandate COVID Vaccines?
Aug 19, 2021
Presenting The Nocturnists: Stories from a Pandemic
Aug 12, 2021
Presenting The Pulse: The Impact of Maternity Ward Closures
Aug 05, 2021
Health Care's Ransomware Wake-Up Call
Jul 29, 2021
Sacrifices and Small Wins: The Fight Against Rising Gun Violence
Jul 22, 2021
One Woman’s Year Surviving the Pandemic with a Disability
Jul 15, 2021
Why Millions Could Lose Medicaid Next Year
Jul 08, 2021
One County’s 20-Year Effort to Decriminalize Mental Illness
Jul 01, 2021
The Aducanumab Aftermath: The Industry
Jun 25, 2021
The Aducanumab Aftermath: The Payer
Jun 24, 2021
The Aducanumab Aftermath: The Patient
Jun 23, 2021
The Aducanumab Aftermath: The Doctor
Jun 22, 2021
Babies, Boats & Abstracts: An Insider's Guide to Health Policy Conferences
Jun 17, 2021
Drilling Into a Dentist's COVID Roller Coaster Ride
Jun 10, 2021
The FDA’s Pressure-Packed Alzheimer’s Drug Decision
Jun 03, 2021
Catching America’s Top Cancer Killer
May 27, 2021
Calling the Shots: Should Employers Mandate COVID Vaccines?
May 20, 2021
3 Employers, 2 Wonks and 1 Health Insurance Mess (LIVE!)
May 13, 2021
Presenting The Dose: Asian Americans and the Dual Pandemic
May 06, 2021
Public Option(al): What Happened to Biden's Big Idea?
Apr 29, 2021
Preventing HIV Just Got A Lot Cheaper. What Took So Long?
Apr 22, 2021
Losing a Hospital
Apr 15, 2021
Biden's $400 Billion Bet on Caring for Older and Disabled Americans at Home
Apr 08, 2021
A New Era of Gun Violence Research
Apr 01, 2021
No Simple Answers: A COVID Q&A With NYT's Apoorva Mandavilli
Mar 25, 2021
One Community Health Center’s COVID Recovery
Mar 18, 2021
How Will Biden’s Fix for Child Poverty Affect Kids’ Health?
Mar 11, 2021
Data and Door Knocking: One City's Push for Racial Equity in Vaccines
Mar 04, 2021
Will the Federal Ban on Surprise Medical Bills Work?
Feb 25, 2021
The High Price of Lowering Health Costs for 150 Million Americans
Feb 18, 2021
Fixing Health Care's 'Leaky Pipes' Could Save the U.S. $340 Billion
Feb 11, 2021
Death, Disease and Denial: Combating COVID in the ER
Feb 04, 2021
Xavier Becerra: Get to Know Biden's Pick to Lead HHS
Jan 28, 2021
‘The Ten Year War’ Over Obamacare (and the Battles Ahead)
Jan 21, 2021
We Need You
Jan 14, 2021
New Year, New Episodes!
Jan 07, 2021
The Price of Care
Dec 31, 2020
Meeting the Mental Health Need
Dec 17, 2020
Surprise! SCOTUS Bucks ERISA
Dec 15, 2020
On the Job in the ICU
Dec 10, 2020
Core to Who I Am
Dec 03, 2020
Best of 2020
Dec 01, 2020
Oyez! Oyez! ACA!
Nov 05, 2020
Straight to the People
Nov 03, 2020
Mission Critical
Oct 29, 2020
Good Intentions
Oct 27, 2020
A Telehealth Checkup
Oct 22, 2020
The Opioid Crisis Is Still Here
Oct 20, 2020
The Medicare Cliff
Oct 15, 2020
Research Corner: Picking Plans
Oct 13, 2020
Losing a Hospital
Oct 08, 2020
The Other SCOTUS Health Care Case
Oct 06, 2020
Debate Do-Over
Oct 01, 2020
Shifting Concerns
Sep 29, 2020
Biden and COVID-19
Sep 24, 2020
Biden and the ACA
Sep 22, 2020
Trump and COVID-19
Sep 18, 2020
Trump and Reproductive Health
Sep 17, 2020
Trump and Medicaid
Sep 16, 2020
Trump and Drug Prices
Sep 15, 2020
Trump and the ACA
Sep 14, 2020
Doctors Coping with COVID, Pt. 2
Sep 10, 2020
Doctors Coping with COVID, Pt. 1
Sep 08, 2020
An Unpleasant Surprise
Sep 03, 2020
Learning As We Go
Sep 01, 2020
Tradeoffs Returns
Aug 27, 2020
On the Job in the ICU
Jul 30, 2020
Meeting the Mental Health Need
Jul 28, 2020
Summer Concerns
Jul 23, 2020
Listener Mailbag: Your COVID-19 Questions Answered
Jul 21, 2020
Taking the Pulse of Insurers
Jul 16, 2020
Core to Who I Am
Jul 14, 2020
Leaving the WHO
Jul 09, 2020
The Price of Care
Jul 07, 2020
Research Corner: Masks, Flint and Primary Care
Jul 02, 2020
Becoming a Doctor
Jun 30, 2020
Navigating Risk
Jun 25, 2020
Leap of Faith
Jun 23, 2020
Dealing With DACA and COVID
Jun 19, 2020
Prognosis: Understanding Silent Spreaders
Jun 18, 2020
What Brings You In Today?
Jun 16, 2020
Hard to Reach
Jun 11, 2020
California Dreamin'
Jun 09, 2020
Without Precedent
Jun 04, 2020
It Takes A Toll
Jun 02, 2020
Home Sweet Hospital
May 28, 2020
Science Under Pressure
May 26, 2020
Masking Problems
May 21, 2020
The Home Run Approach
May 19, 2020
Bill, Interrupted
May 14, 2020
What the Fax?
May 12, 2020
Disease Detectives
May 07, 2020
The Medicaid Cliff
May 05, 2020
Return of the Risk Corridors
Apr 30, 2020
Primary Care on the Mend
Apr 28, 2020
The COBRA Conundrum
Apr 23, 2020
Getting on the Bus
Apr 21, 2020
(Almost) Everyone Is Doing It
Apr 16, 2020
Who Gets Care
Apr 14, 2020
What Keeps Me Up at Night
Apr 09, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Bob Wachter, Pt. 3
Apr 08, 2020
After the Hospital
Apr 03, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Daniela Lamas
Apr 02, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: David Reich
Mar 31, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Amy Richardson
Mar 28, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Mayra Jimenez
Mar 27, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Bob Wachter, Pt. 2
Mar 26, 2020
Primary Care in Crisis
Mar 25, 2020
Match Day
Mar 20, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Chris Chen
Mar 19, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Pam Gueldner
Mar 18, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Bob Wachter
Mar 17, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: The Social Distance Social
Mar 16, 2020
Coronavirus Conversations: Alison Buttenheim
Mar 12, 2020
Medicarried Away? (LIVE)
Mar 04, 2020
In Short Supply
Feb 19, 2020
Primary Concerns
Feb 05, 2020
The Price of Innovation
Jan 22, 2020
The Sidebar: A Deeper Dive Into RCTs
Jan 14, 2020
'Hot Spotters' on Trial
Jan 08, 2020
Leap of Faith
Jan 02, 2020
The Good Stuff
Dec 11, 2019
Feeding the Sick
Nov 27, 2019
What Brings You In Today?
Nov 13, 2019
The Train Has Left the Station
Oct 30, 2019
The Town the Ballpark Is In
Oct 16, 2019
Welcome to Tradeoffs
Sep 20, 2019