Tradeoffs

From restricting abortion to legalizing marijuana, voters are weighing in on a variety of significant state health policy questions this election. (CORRECTION: An earlier version of this episode said Washington D.C. was considering “decriminalizing” psychoactive plants like mushrooms. They were in fact only considering effectively decriminalizing them by directing police to make enforcing laws related to this issue a low priority.)Guest: Kathleen Hoke, JD, Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of LawFor complete a transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/11/03/straight-to-the-peopleSupport this type of journalism today, with a gift: https://tradeoffs.org/donateSign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With COVID-19 again bearing down on U.S. hospitals, a team of military doctors and disaster preparedness experts are racing to build a system to deploy critical care providers anywhere in an instant.Guests:Col. Jeremy Pamplin, MD, Director, U.S. Army Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)Ben Scott, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of ColoradoDoug Powell, MD, Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine, West Virginia University; and consultant to the Office of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command SurgeonLt. Col. Chris Colombo, MD, Director of Virtual Health and Telecritical Care, Madigan Army Medical CenterJeremy Kahn, MD, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of PittsburghKristina Ieronimakis, RN, ICU Nurse, Madigan Army Medical CenterLisa Lindgren, Vice President of Clinical Operations, AveraSign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With communities of color disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, drugmakers and public health officials are placing an unprecedented emphasis on diversity in vaccine clinical trials.Guests:Beau Garland, Vice President of Recruitment, Meridian Clinical ResearchJonathan Jackson, PhD, Director, CARE Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital.For complete complete transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/27/good-intentions/To stay on top of all our coverage of the coronavirus and our conversations with people who are being forced to make difficult decisions in the midst of it all, visit http://bit.ly/coronavirustradeoffs.Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The coronavirus pandemic forced public and private insurers to relax longstanding restrictions on telehealth, leading to a virtual care explosion. But how many of those changes are here to stay?Guest: Chad Ellimoottil, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology and Director of the Telehealth Research Incubator at the University of MichiganRead a transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/22/a-telehealth-checkup/Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While the coronavirus pandemic has sucked up all the oxygen, the opioid crisis continues to get worse.Guest: Michael Barnett, Assistant Professor of Health Policy Management at Harvard School of Public Health; Primary Care Physician at Brigham and Women’s HospitalRead a transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/20/the-opioid-crisis-is-still-here/Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of Medicare's trust funds is set to run out of money within the next four years, but we've heard almost nothing about it the campaign trail. We explore what would happen, how it got this bad, and what can be done to fix it.Guest: Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal BudgetLearn more about Medicare and read a transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/15/the-medicare-cliff/Explore more of our coverage of the 2020 election: https://tradeoffs.org/trumpbiden/Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second installment of our Research Corner segment, health economist Sayeh Nikpay discusses two research papers about picking health insurance plans: why we're bad at it and why so many uninsured Americans who are eligible for low cost plans don't sign up.Featuring:Sayeh Nikpay, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of MinnesotaFor complete complete transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/13/research-corner-picking-health-insurance-plans/Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More than 130 hospitals have closed in rural America over the last decade. Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble spent a year embedded in one small Kansas town as they dealt with their own hospital closure.Guest: Sarah Jane Tribble, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health NewsRead a transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/08/losing-a-hospital/Hear more of Sarah Jane's reporting about Fort Scott on the first season of Where It Hurts: whereithurts.showSign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Supreme Court begins a new term, all eyes are on the ACA. But lurking in the wonky backwaters is another case with big implications for state health innovations and regulations.Guest: Erin Fuse Brown, Associate Professor of Law; Director, Center for Law, Health & Society, Georgia State UniversityFor a complete transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/06/the-other-scotus-health-care-case/Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Although health care consumed nearly one-third of the first presidential debate, the conversation left a lot to be desired. We asked a couple of experts to outline the key health policy questions they wish the candidates had covered. Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, Harvard UniversityPreeti Malani, MD, Chief Health Officer, University of MichiganFor a complete transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/01/debate-do-over/Explore the candidates' health policy positions, what we know about them, plus expert analysis: https://tradeoffs.org/trumpbiden/ Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletterFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.