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Health Affairs This Week places listeners at the center of health policy’s proverbial water cooler. Join editors from Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy research, and special guests as they discuss this week’s most pressing health policy news. All in 15 minutes or less.
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US Health Spending Projections Back on the Rise w/ Michael Chernew
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits: What We've Learned
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Back In Our Budget Reconciliation Bag w/ Katie Keith
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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FDA Vague Efforts to Scale Generative AI Internally By End of June
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May 30, 2025 |
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Andrew Ryan on State Affordability Standards' Impact on Hospital Prices and Insurance Premiums | A Health Podyssey
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May 28, 2025 |
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The Digital Health Industry is So Back w/ Christina Farr
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May 23, 2025 |
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Thomas Buchmueller on Prescription Coverage After Medicaid Unwinding | A Health Podyssey
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May 21, 2025 |
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Trump's Deregulation Era & The Big Budget Reconciliation's Health Care Impact w/ Katie Keith
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May 16, 2025 |
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A Health Podyssey: Caitlin Carroll on Hospital Closures Ultimately Causing Higher Prices
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May 14, 2025 |
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What's On Farzad Mostashari's Mind for Health Policy
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May 09, 2025 |
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A Health Podyssey: Eric Topol on the Science of Super-Aging and Longevity
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May 07, 2025 |
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How Federal Restructuring Affects Data That Affects Health Policy
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May 02, 2025 |
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2020 Vs. 2025: What's Different and the Same in Health Policy - Our 200th Episode!
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Whether Health Care M&A is Cooked Or Not w/ Bob Herman
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Food, Nutrition, & Health: A Different Type of Hunger w/ Heather Thomas
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Popp-Berman on How the U.S. Can Build a Just Political Economy for Health
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Where Tariffs and Health Care Meet w/ David Simon
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Food, Nutrition, & Health: Behind the Pages
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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The Politics of Alternative Payment Models
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Food, Nutrition & Health: Food Support Programs w/ Diane Schanzenbach
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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What We Talk About When We Talk About SNAP w/ Seth Berkowitz
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Food, Nutrition, & Health: Water Insecurity w/ Na'Taki Osborne Jelks
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Health Policy at a Crossroads: Trump's First 50 Days w/ Katie Keith
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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At the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Health Care w/ Brian Anderson
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The Impact of Trump's Known Health Care Agenda w/ Rebecca Pifer
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Victor Dzau on the Urgent Health Care Priorities Facing the Trump Administration
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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BREAKDOWN: Health Care Private Equity Federal Reports
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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What's Happening with Value-Based Insurance Design? w/ Mark Fendrick
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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The Scope of US Medical Debt Right Now w/ Kinika Young
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Biden's Final Food & Health Policies
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Health Policy at a Crossroads: Trump's First Week w/ Katie Keith
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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New Year, New Hospital Price Transparency Requirements
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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The Scope of Medicare Fraud
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Holly Jolly Health Expenditures
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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A Disproportionate Share: The Future of Safety Net Hospitals & Payment Policies
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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A Disproportionate Share: A Complex Patchwork of Supplemental Payments
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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A Disproportionate Share: Meditations on Safety Net Hospitals & How We Pay For Them
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Medicare Shared Savings Program Mints $2B Win for Value-Based Care w/ Frank McStay
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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How the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Will Impact Family Caregivers w/ Jason Resendez
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Zachary Baron Shares What A Trump Presidency May Mean for Health Care
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Health-Related State Ballot Measures On Deck This Election Season
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Frontline Struggles from the Retail Health Clinic Market
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Health Policy on the 2024 Presidential Campaign Trail
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Medicare Advantage Star Ratings Continue to Fade but Market Marches On Into 2025
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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RERUN: Diving into the New CMS' National Health Expenditures Projections w/ Michael Chernew
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Rachel Sachs Explains the FTC's Pharmacy Benefit Manager Lawsuit & PBM Reform
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The Digital Transformation-Data Quality Puzzle w/ Brad Ryan of NCQA
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Evolution of Medicare Advantage's Supplemental Benefits
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Parental Stress New Focus for US Surgeon General
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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FTC's National Noncompete Ban is Down But Is It Out?
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Universal Basic Income, Health Equity & Social Democracy w/ Seth Berkowitz
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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A Peek Behind the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Curtain
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Increasing Cyber Risk of Health Care Data
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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PBMs. What Are They Hiding? w/ Stacie Dusetzina
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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HHS Proposes Requirements To Advance Maternal Quality Improvement Efforts
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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The Plan to Remove Medical Debt From Credit Reports
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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New Alzheimer's Drug Approval Expands Treatment Options — and Creates Coverage Questions
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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The Chevron Deference is Dead. What Now? w/ Andrew Twinamatsiko
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Scene Report from AcademyHealth's ARM Conference
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Why the Supreme Court Rejected a Challenge to Abortion Medication w/ Andrew Twinamatsiko
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Breaking Down the CBO's Insurance Coverage Projections w/ Sabrina Corlette
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Scene Report from CMS' Health Equity Conference
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Obesity Medications & What You'll Pay For Them — If You Can Get Them w/ Stacie Dusetzina
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May 31, 2024 |
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Following the Rules: Nursing Facilities Staffing and Organ Transplants
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May 24, 2024 |
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FTC Voted to Ban Noncompetes. Will It Actually Happen? w/ Rebecca Pifer
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May 17, 2024 |
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What Walmart Health's Demise Says About Retail Health and Telehealth Markets
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May 10, 2024 |
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The Rise - and Future - of Medicare Advantage w/ Jack Hoadley
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May 03, 2024 |
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How the ACA Market Has Matured w/ Sabrina Corlette and Jason Levitis
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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The State of Antitrust & Private Equity in Health Care w/ Brent Fulton
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Behind The Pages: Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Research and Justice For All: How the Private Sector Can Address Health Equity
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Research and Justice For All: Leveraging Data to Drive Outcomes in Health Equity
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Research and Justice For All: Mental Health and Health Equity
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Research and Justice For All: Maternal Health and Health Equity
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Research and Justice For All: How Health Equity Accreditation is Changing Health Care
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Research and Justice For All: Health Care Role in Health Equity
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Behind The Pages: Housing and Health
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Michael Lens on Low-Density Zoning and Neighborhood Segregation
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Ingrid Gould Ellen on Housing Mobility and Health
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Craig Pollack on Low Income Housing Tax Credits
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Corianne Scally Gives an Overview on Housing and Health
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Behind the Pages: Global Lessons From COVID-19
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Health Policy 2023 Wrapped
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The AI Executive Order and Why Health Care Should Care
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Getting Personal: Racism and Health Equity
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Survey Says: Insurance Premiums Are Up
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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California Shares Insight Into Modern Health Care Workforce Relations
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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DTC Companies Double Down on Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Behind The Pages: Tackling Structural Racism In Health
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Impact of Medicaid Unwinding on Children's Health
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Can the All-Payer Model Get AHEAD with New CMS Opp?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Audit of Nursing Home Staffing Standards in Progress by Biden Administration
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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CMS Enters the Octagon, Names 10 Drugs for Price Negotiation
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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A Shifting PBM Landscape?
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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The Long and Winding Road of Regulating Laboratory Developed Tests w/ Catherine Sharkey
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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FDA Comes Under Scrutiny
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Biden Administration Continues Antitrust Crusade With New Merger Guidelines
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Health Equity - Summer 2023 Edition
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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White House Looks To Trash "Junk" Insurance Plans
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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The Far-Reaching Health Care Impacts of the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decision
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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CMS's 10-Year Value-Based Primary Care Experiment
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Sara Rosenbaum Goes Deep in the Weeds of Medicaid
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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LGBTQ+ Health Care Policies: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward?
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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How Health Care Fared in the Debt Limit Deal
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Resident Physicians Turn To Strikes and Unions
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May 26, 2023 |
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Tom Insel on the Mental Health Crisis and Behavioral Health Care Reform
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May 19, 2023 |
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Lawrence Gostin on The End of COVID As We Know It
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May 12, 2023 |
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Kaiser, Geisinger and the Uncertain Future of Value-Based Care
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May 05, 2023 |
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Celebrating Health Equity
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Sabrina Corlette on the Health of Health Reform
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Abortion Pill Mifepristone Has Its Day(s) In Court
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Melanie Bella on Medicaid Expansion and Beyond
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Controversy Around Pharmacy Benefit Managers
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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The Cost of Insulin
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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What the President's Budget Means for Health Care
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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A Seat For All: Building Health Equity Into Scholarly Programs
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Health in US Prisons and Jails
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Health Care Highlights From the 2023 State of the Union Address
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Road Mapping Health Care Spending and Value
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Medicare Advantage Targeted By CMS For Overpayment
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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The Problem With Provider Directories
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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In The News: Child Vaccination Rates, Veterans Care and...Gas Stoves?
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Leqembi & Health Equity
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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No Health Care News Shortage in 2023
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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2022 Health Policy Year in Review
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Will Naloxone Become An Over-The-Counter Drug?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Tackling Bias in Health Care Algorithms
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Midterm Health Care Ballot Initiative Review
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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It's Open Enrollment Season
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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FDA's Controversial Pregnancy Drug Decision, Explained
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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A Health Podyssey: Tara Lagu on Physicians’ Attitudes on People With Disabilities
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Disability and Health Spotlight: Art Enables
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Behind the Pages: Disability and Health Issue
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Health Policy Litigation: A Quick Tour on Current Events
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Improving Health Outcomes for Dual Eligibles
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Walmart and Retailers Continue To Make Moves in Health Care
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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State of the Health Care Workforce
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Moderna Fires Shots in mRNA Wars
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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CDC Looks To Reshape Itself
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Why the Inflation Reduction Act is a Big Deal for Health Care
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Monkeypox Updates w/ Syra Madad & Andrew Wallach from NYC Health+ Hospitals
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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New HEDIS Measures Emphasize Health Equity w/ Eric Schneider
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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ACA Anti-Discrimination Rule w/ Katie Keith
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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The 988 Lifeline, Mental Health, and More
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Federal & State Health Policy Actions After Roe v. Wade Overturn
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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CMS Rule Recap: Rural Emergency Hospitals and Price Transparency
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Budget Neutral Medicaid Demonstrations w/ Cindy Mann
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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LGBTQ+ & Public Health
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Pharmacy Benefit Managers, the FTC & You
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Headlines: Monkeypox, Medicare Trustees Report & Nursing Home Workforce Shortages
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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FDA Under the Microscope on User Fees and Baby Formula Shortage
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Health Policy and Gun Violence
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May 27, 2022 |
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Tim Jost Previews Supreme Court Impacts On Medicaid Beneficiaries
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May 20, 2022 |
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FDA's Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes, Explained
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May 13, 2022 |
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Unpacking the Supreme Court Abortion Draft Decision
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May 06, 2022 |
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Headlines: Childhood Vaccinations, Title 42, and National Drug Control Strategy
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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A Health Podyssey: Stacie Dusetzina Shares Why Medicare Beneficiaries May Not Fill Specialty Drug Prescriptions
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Advancing Health Equity in Health Policy & Publishing
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Biden Wants to Fix The ACA's Family Glitch. What Is That? w/ Katie Keith
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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The Latest Trajectory of National Health Spending
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Medical Debt Changes & Health Impacts
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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The Role of Private Equity In Health Care
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Mike Chernew On Payment Reform: From Direct Contracting To ACO REACH
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Decoding the State of the Union for Health Care
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Navigating The COVID-19 Off-Ramp for Telehealth and Medicaid Policies
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Galileo's Thomas Lee on Telehealth, Equity & Access To Care
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Behind The Pages: Racism and Health Issue
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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California's Fight for Single-Payer Health Care
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Michael Chernew Makes The Case for Payment Reform
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Focusing On Mental Health In COVID-19 Pandemic Year Three
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Health Care Staffing Woes Persist as Omicron Surges
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Prescription Drug Policy, Drug Pricing & Aduhelm With Rachel Sachs
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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New National Health Spending Data and Introducing Health Affairs Forefront
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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A Year in Health Policy Review
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Global Health Inequity: Examining Omicron Through The Lens of HIV/AIDS
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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The ACA and Health Policy at the Supreme Court with Katie Keith
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Public Health In The Off-Year Election Wrap Up
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Considering (And Making Sense Of) Health Spending
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Diving Into WHO's Climate and Health Report Before The UN Climate Summit
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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What's Happening with the FDA Commissioner Appointment?
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Zoning Policy is Health Policy
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Behind the Pages: Perinatal Mental Health Issue
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Hospital Specialty Pharmacies and 340B
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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The Fight to Expand Postpartum Medicaid — And Why It Matters
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Paid Sick Leave, and the Economy
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Health Affairs' Health Equity Round-Up
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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On the Texas Abortion Ban Decision, Medicare's Insolvency & More with Katie Keith
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Back To School Edition: COVID-19 Vaccines & Mask Mandates
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Inside the Historic Boost for SNAP Food Assistance
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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The Public Transit-Health Connection
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill - What's in it for Health Care
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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COVID-19: The Latest on Federal Mask Guidance and Vaccine Mandates
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Behind the Pages: July 2021 Issue on Borders, Immigrants & Health
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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New Biden Executive Order Targets Hospital Mergers & Drug Pricing, Renews Antitrust Focus
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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No Surprises Act: Known Impacts on Surprise Medical Bills & What's Next
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Home-based Care Left Out of Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Unpacking Apple's health care efforts and digital health's overall maturity
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Peering into the MedPAC crystal ball for the future of Medicare payments
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Insights into FDA's controversial decision to approve a new Alzheimer's treatment drug
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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States are leading the way on the public option
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Does the US have a drug innovation problem?
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May 28, 2021 |
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Behind the CDC’s new COVID-19 mask guidelines for those who are fully vaccinated
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May 21, 2021 |
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Three unanswered questions for telehealth's future
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May 14, 2021 |
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The next wave of federal food aid for children and families
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May 07, 2021 |
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Aggressive policing damages health equity and community health
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Hospitals at large are failing at price transparency
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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What's the deal with hospital mergers?
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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A renewed effort to address the opioid epidemic
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Drug pricing on the agenda for massive infrastructure bill
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Elevating women's voices in health policy during Women's History Month
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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In addressing vaccine hesitancy, how the message is delivered matters
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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American Rescue Plan addresses the Affordable Care Act's unfinished business
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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What nursing home turnover means for quality of care
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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COVID-19 vaccine production is dramatically ramping up
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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What a $15 minimum wage could mean for population health
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Breaking down the 2021 Momnibus bill
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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What is and isn't in the Biden executive order on Medicaid and the ACA
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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A call for health equity in scholarly publishing
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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More seats at the federal table for health equity
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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What could Medicaid and COVID-19 vaccine distribution look like under a Biden administration?
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Health policy on the table in 2021 with democratic Congress
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Overlooked health policy stories of 2020 - Part 2
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Overlooked health policy stories of 2020 - Part 1
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Snow can't stop the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Climate change and the future of health policy
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Is a COVID-19 vaccine within reach?
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Dec 04, 2020 |