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Tradeoffs

Tradeoffs

Tradeoffs explores the toughest choices in health care, diving into issues like the cost of care, health equity, insurance, mental health and artificial intelligence. We connect policy to practice, uncovering the data and personal stories that help audiences understand the stakes — and the potential solutions.

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

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405 episodes

  1. States Race to Get the Word Out About New Medicaid Work Requirements 26:18
  2. Medicare Plans Keep Disappearing 39:16
  3. Reimagining the Future of Health Research After Sweeping Cuts 20:55
  4. Hidden Help: What Happened When Oregon Forced Hospitals to Boost Financial Aid? 31:57
  5. Hidden Help: A New Push for Hospitals to Prevent Medical Debt 31:55
  6. With Millions Expected to Lose Coverage, States Look for New Ways to Prevent Medical Debt 23:17
  7. States Weigh In on Medicaid Fraud 59:50
  8. 911 Fails People in Mental Health Crises. Here's a Plan to Fix It. 18:36
  9. As SNAP Shrinks, What's the Future of Food Aid in America? 21:41
  10. Beyond Finger Pointing: The Fight to Lower Health Care Costs 57:52
  11. The Cost of Cutting NIH Research: Voices from the Frontlines 22:22
  12. Trump's Pick to Quiet HHS Chaos Heads to the Senate 21:28
  13. ‘I Feel Unsafe Almost Everywhere’: How Trump Has Changed Life for One Transgender Teen 16:51
  14. Should I Trust AI to Diagnose Me? 25:41
  15. Meet the Man Launching Trump's Medicaid Work Requirements Months Early 26:49
  16. A Wyoming Doctor’s Fight to Keep Abortion Legal in Her Deep Red State 23:03
  17. Call to Mind: Immigration and the Challenge to Belong 54:29
  18. As Drama at Trump's FDA Subsides, Doubts and Damage Linger 22:23
  19. Making Medical Decisions with Uncertain Science 52:41
  20. With Millions Expected to Lose Coverage, States Look for New Ways to Prevent Medical Debt 22:58
  21. Medicaid Overhaul Complicates States’ Plans to Bring Care Into Jails and Prisons 28:33
  22. Where Did the No Surprises Act Go Wrong? And Can It Be Fixed? 52:26
  23. Mental Health Courts Offer People Facing Prison an Imperfect Alternative 26:02
  24. A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy 28:37
  25. Republicans Want to Change How You Buy Health Care 26:51
  26. The U.S. Saved $1 Trillion on Health Care. Why Doesn't It Feel Like It? 19:52
  27. Call to Mind: The Fifth Branch 54:51
  28. Doctors Hated the No Surprises Act. Now Some Are Getting Rich Off of It. 23:36
  29. New York Braces for Trump's Big Medicaid Shakeup 24:02
  30. Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them? 30:19
  31. High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws 25:00
  32. Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS 20:52
  33. Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court 24:26
  34. Inside the Urgent Care Boom 39:15
  35. ‘It Sucks’: Spiking Health Insurance Costs Hit Small Businesses 21:05
  36. 'We Can’t Afford All These Humans’: A Doctor's Take on AI in Health Care 25:51
  37. Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care 26:15
  38. As States and CDC Split on Vaccines, What's Next? 19:58
  39. A Better Way to Care for Older Adults with Opioid Addiction 24:59
  40. Mental Illness Left Their Loved Ones on the Streets. California’s Big Fix Hasn’t Helped 24:10
  41. One State's Sprint for its Share of $50 Billion for Rural Health: Part 2 24:27
  42. One State's Sprint for its Share of $50 Billion for Rural Health: Part 1 27:35
  43. Race to the Bottom: Where's the Cavalry? 29:11
  44. Breaking Down Trump’s $50 Billion Rural Health Fund 1:01:11
  45. Race to the Bottom: Hard Bargain 29:44
  46. Race to the Bottom: Boom Times 28:40
  47. One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy 25:15
  48. How Treating Teens’ Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago 28:04
  49. One Scientist's Mission to Change How We Prevent Overdoses 26:32
  50. A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America 26:08