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The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso

David Introcaso, Ph.D.

Podcast interviews with health policy experts on timely subjects. The Healthcare Policy Podcast website features audio interviews with healthcare policy experts on timely topics. An online public forum routinely presenting expert healthcare policy analysis and comment is lacking. While other healthcare policy website programming exists, these typically present vested interest viewpoints or do not combine informed policy analysis with political insight or acumen. Since healthcare policy issues

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48:36

Dr. Kate Goodrich Discusses Healthcare Quality Reform...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/03/24

Listen Now(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the seventh of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion is with Humana's Dr. Kate Goodrich and was conducted in late December. As you will hear this podcast like all others is introduced by ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra. This series was produced in an effort to interest or persuade federal healthcare officials to pursue substantive healthcare policy reform.)Healthcare quality has been a significant

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230th Interview: Professor Judy Feder Discusses Long...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/03/21

Listen Now(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the sixth of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion is with Georgetown University Professor Judy Feder and was conducted in late November. As you will hear this podcast like all other eight is introduced by ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra. This series was produced in an effort to interest or persuade federal healthcare officials to pursue substantive healthcare policy reform.)Unlike other rich

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38:49

Dr. Mark Miller Discusses Drug Pricing Policy Reform...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/03/16

Listen Now(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the fifth of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion is with Arnold Ventures' Dr. Mark Miller and conducted in late November. As you will hear this podcast like all other eight is introduced by ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra. This series was produced in an effort to interest or persuade federal healthcare officials to pursue substantive healthcare policy reform.)As has been widely reported and debated

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39:29

Professor Michael Ruse Discusses the Gaia Hypothesis...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/03/15

Listen Now(Please note: Because of poor sound quality, this interview was rerecorded on March 22nd.) Discussing the climate crisis sooner or later begs the Gaia Hypothesis. Simply explained, the Gaia Hypothesis, proposed in the early 1970s by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, argues all of planetary life works autonomously to maintain environmental conditions within a narrow range of habitability, or in a dynamic state of constancy, via a long list of biological self-regulating mechanisms. In

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40:13

Professor Mike Chernew Discusses Medicare Advantage...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/03/08

Listen Now(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the fourth of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion is with Harvard economics Professor Michael Chernew and was conducted in late November. As you will hear this podcast like all others is introduced by ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra. This series was produced in an effort to interest or persuade federal healthcare officials to pursue substantive healthcare policy reform.)On background, the rapidly

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39:40

Dr. Amol Navathe Discusses Medicare Fee for Service...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/03/04

Listen Now(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the third of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion with Dr. Amol Navathe was conducted in late December. As you will hear this podcast like all others is introduced by ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra. This series was produced in an effort to interest or persuade federal healthcare officials to pursue substantive healthcare policy reform.) Medicare is projected to grow from 62 to 80 million Americans

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35:12

Stanford's Mark Jacobson's Discusses How the...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/02/26

Listen NowPer the essay I posted last week concerning federal policy makers' indifference toward the health harm imposed on Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries via the healthcare industry's carbon emissions, I thought it useful to discuss however limitedly why and how the US healthcare industry can rapidly transition to the use of clean or renewable energy resources, i.e., wind, water and solar (WWS). Possibly, if not likely, the leading US researcher on transitioning to 100% clean energy is

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37:26

Dr. Bob Berenson Discusses Healthcare's Pricing...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/02/18

Listen Now(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the second of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion with Dr. Berenson was conducted in mid-November. As you will hear this podcast like all others is introduced by ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra. This series was produced in an effort to interest or persuade federal healthcare officials to pursue substantive healthcare policy reform.) US healthcare prices, moreover in commercial markets, have for

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34:41

Co-Editor Dr. Howard Frumkin Discusses "Planetary...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/02/02

Listen NowLast year Island Press published Planetary Health, Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves, considered the first textbook for the field of planetary health. As the title suggests, the work provides an overview of our planet's health under the Anthropocene era. As the work notes, per work by the Global Footprint Network we have been increasingly living beyond our environmental means, or beyond the earth's carrying capacity, since 1970. Of nine planetary boundaries, including climate

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31:50

Dr. Steven Woolf Discusses How (Un)Healthy Are...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/01/31

Listen Now(As noted below on the podcast website this discussion is the first of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion with Dr. Woolf was conducted in early November. As you will hear this podcast, and all seven others, are introduced by ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra. This series was produced in an effort to interest or persuade federal healthcare officials to pursue substantive health care policy reform.) Devoted listeners of the podcast will recall I

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221st Podcast: NRDC's Dr. Vijay Limaye Discusses...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2021/01/10

Listen Now2020 was yet another record setting temperature year tying 2016 as the warmest on record. 2020 was strikingly warmer than 2019, by about .75 degrees Fahrenheit, and some parts of Arctic were warmer by more than 10 degrees Fahrenheit. 2020 also set a US record for $1 billion climate disasters numbering 22 and totaling $95 billion damages (the previous records were 16 in 2017 and more than double the 41-year average of $45 billion). Seven of the 22 events were hurricanes or tropical

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41:50

Prof. William Darity and Ms. Kirsten Mullen Discuss...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/12/10

Listen NowListeners are aware social determinants significantly explain one's health, as much as 80%. Principally among these is economic status. Wealth positively correlates with health. As listeners are, or should be, well aware 250 fifty years of slavery and a century and a half of institutionalized racism has resulted in median black household net worth equal to one-tenth that of median white household net worth - due, in part, to blacks having comparative lower rates of upward mobility and

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36:56

Union of Concerned Scientists' Dr. Rachel Cleetus...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/11/19

Listen NowCatastrophic climate crisis effects continue to accelerate. Atmospheric carbon concentrations are now measured at 417 ppm, the greatest concentration of atmospheric carbon in our existence. This year will again prove to be one of warmest on record. This year is also a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, with 30 named storms to date, and a record breaking year for wildfires. In the Arctic, the albedo effect from the now inexorable loss of summer ice (currently, the Arctic is

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Caleb Barlow Discusses Healthcare Industry Ransomware...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/10/28

Listen NowComputer or cybercrimes against health care providers, moreover hospitals, disenable computer networks holding them for ransom, frequently for a bitcoin fee. Though these attacks date back at least 30 years they have become increasingly prevalent since 2010. Last month, Universal Health Services, with 400 locations moreover in the US, suffered a cyberattack. Recently too, the first known death resulted from a ransomware attack in Germany when a patient did not survive transfer to

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33:03

John Gorman Discusses the Use of Opportunity Zones to...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/10/22

Listen NowThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has placed a spotlight on the social determinants of health (SDOH) - generally defined as health access and quality, education, economic circumstances, food security, social conditions and environmental factors. It is estimated SDOH determine as much as 60% of one's health status, whereas formal medical care accounts for just 10%. Concerning economic circumstances, forty years of wage stagnation among lower income workers has left 45% of Americans with

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31:33

Climate Neutral's CEO Austin Whitman Discusses...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/09/30

Listen NowCollectively termed subnationals, numerous academic institutions, states, cities and other local governments, companies, NGOS and other entities across the country have independently pledged to go green or become climate neutral. Ironically, the industry most lagging in this effort is health care despite the fact that, after the food industry, health care is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide equivalents at over 650 million metric tons annually, or approximately 10% of total US

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Dr. David Mayer Discusses Patient Safety During the...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/09/29

Listen NowPatient safety, or preventable patient harm, remains a significant threat to patients, particularly seniors, now over 20 years after publication of the landmark IOM report, “To Err is Human." The country’s failure to contain COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) stands in marked contrast to successful containment of SAR-COV-1 (and MERS and H1N1). This failure has assuredly increased incidences of patient harm and preventable or excess deaths. Among other explanations, a recent Harvard Business Review

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Dr. Rachel Dolin Discusses the House Ways & Means...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/08/27

Listen NowIn testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2007, the FDA's Dr. David Graham stated, "15,000 elderly people in nursing homes [are] dying each year from the off-label use of antipsychotic medications for an indication that the FDA knows the drug doesn't work. The problem has been known to the FDA for years and years.” Eleven years later, Human Rights Watch published a report titled, “They Want Docile: How Nursing Homes in the US Over-Medicate People with Dementia." The

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Dr. Charles Binkley Discusses Medical Ethics in the...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/08/18

Listen NowFrom an ethical perspective our nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous. For example, as has been widely reported, our nation has failed to protect the most vulnerable among us, for example, nursing home residents have suffered approximately one-third of all COVID-19-related deaths. As for other disenfranchised, African Americans have been were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic Whites to die of COVID-19 complications. Health care providers have been and

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Dr. J. Mario Molina Discusses Medicaid Program...

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David... ·

2020/08/11

Listen NowBecause the economy and the Medicaid program run counter cyclically or are negative correlated (when the economy falters, Medicaid enrollment increases ), to no one's surprise the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on the economy has put the Medicaid program in jeopardy. The US is experiencing the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression causing state budgets, heavily reliant and income and sales taxes, to crater. (States, in sum, are looking at over $500 billion in revenue shortfalls

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