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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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29:36

Georgetown Professor Judy Feder Discusses Long Term...

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

2020/07/30

Listen NowFederal policymakers have struggled unsuccessfully since at least the 1980s to create a national long term care (LTC) policy. LTC coverage is available however it can only be obtained by pursing a complicated asset depletion process to qualify for coverage under the Medicaid program. (Medicare is frequently assumed to provide LTC. It does not.) The 2010 Affordable Care Act's CLASS Act, that would have created a voluntary, public long-term care insurance option for employees, was

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27:36

210th Podcast: Stanford's Paul Ehrlich Discusses the...

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

2020/07/26

Listen NowOur planet is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction. Over the past 450 million years the planet has experienced five previous mass extinctions. Each of which destroyed or extinguished between 70% and 95% of all plants, animals and micro-organisms. While these five previous extinctions were moreover the result of volcanization, the current extinction crisis is human caused. According to the UN's Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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21:33

Georgetown's Prof JoAnn Volk Discusses Health Care...

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

2020/07/22

Listen NowThe Trump administration has strongly supported alternative insurance plans in the individual market or those that do not meeting regulatory requirements, for example providing what are defined as "essential health benefits," under the Affordable Care Act. (While the administration claims the ACA reforms are responsible for higher premiums, research shows price increases are largely due to the uncertainty caused by unending efforts to repeal the ACA, the elimination of the individual

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30:24

Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby Discusses Structural...

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

2020/07/09

Listen NowBeing endemic in the US, racism is pervasive in health care. It explains everything from the fact that the black to white infant mortality ratio has never dipped below to 2:1, to more generally, disproportionate un- and under-insured rates, compromised access, non-referrals, accelerated aging and and excess deaths. More pernicious than interpersonal racism, structural or systemic racism, where the failure to provide equal benefit to racial and ethnic minorities, is embedded in health

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28:22

ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra, Discusses the Need for...

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

2020/06/24

Listen NowThe current public health emergency brings into stark relief US health care’s ineffectiveness. As previously noted, with 4.25% of the world’s population, the US currently accounts for 26% of worldwide COVID-19 infections and deaths. Concerning our response to date, Harvard's Ashish Jha recently stated, "we may end up being the worst of any country in the world in terms of our response." Despite outspending all other OECD countries 2 to 1, or currently $4 trillion annually (and expected

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24:10

Interviewer as Interviewee: David Introcaso Answers...

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

2020/06/17

Listen NowSince I've received and answered questions via email concerning podcast interviews and related health care policy questions over the past eight years, I thought it might be it might be useful to attempt answering listeners via a podcast program. This podcast addresses questions I received via my solicitation a few months ago. Joe DiLauro, the gentleman whom introduces the podcast and thanks listeners after each interview, and moreover my audio engineer, poses the questions.During Part II

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29:56

Mary Paier Powers Discusses What Family Caregivers...

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

2020/06/07

Listen NowThe COVID-19 pandemic has had particularly fatal effect on seniors or the frail elderly residing in Long Term Care (LTC) facilities, e.g., in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF_ or in assisted living. As of last week approximately four in ten COVID-related deaths had occurred in these residences. For example, in Virginia, as of mid-May approx. 60% of all COVID 19 related deaths have occurred in a SNF, among other states, in Minnesota , 80% of deaths have occurred in SNF and residential care

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29:12

Jennifer Kent, Former Director of the California...

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

2020/06/03

Listen NowSince the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic remains, as the The New England Journal of Medicine termed last week, laconic, the US response continues to be best understood at the state level. California immediately comes to mind for obvious reasons. Among others, it has a population of 40 million or 12% of the nation’s total (and if it was its own nation, would constitute the world’s fifth largest economy). To date, California has limited COVID-19 related deaths to

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30:28

The Sabin Center's Michael Burger Discusses the...

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

2020/05/31

Listen NowIt should go without saying that we interact with the environment constantly. It should also go without saying a degraded environment compromises our health and leaves us less resilient. This explains why Black Americans, disproportionately suffering from chronic conditions resulting from, e.g., poor air quality, are suffering COVID-19 mortality rates upwards of three time that of White Americans. According to the National Academies of Science, the environment is responsible for 30% of

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21:58

Interviewer as Interviewee: David Introcaso Answers...

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

2020/05/27

Listen NowSince I've received and answered questions via email concerning podcast interviews and related health care policy questions over the past eight years, I thought it might be it might be useful to attempt answering listeners via a podcast program. This podcast addresses questions I received via my solicitation a few months ago. Joe DiLauro, the gentleman whom introduces the podcast and thanks listeners after each interview, and moreover my audio engineer, poses the questions.During Part I

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35:37

Howard Friedman Discusses His Recently Published...

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

2020/05/05

Listen NowConsidering how the COVID-19 pandemic has been addressed by federal policy makers, e.g., the US, with 4.25% of the world's population, accounts for approximately 30% of worldwide deaths, the question arises to what extent do we value life - literally. As Professor Friedman notes in his work, lives undervalued are lives unprotected since they are exposed to greater health and safety risks and enjoy far fewer legal protections. During this 33-minute conversation, Prof Friedman discusses his

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Krista Drobac Discusses Sweeping Changes in Federal...

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

2020/04/28

Listen NowListeners may be aware that up until recently the Medicare program strictly limited provider use of telehealth services via originating site and other numerous other regulatory rules despite its much wider adoption by other payers and the VA. (E.g., see my previous interview/discussion with Ms. Drobac.) Annual Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services equaled approximately 0.003% of annual Medicare spending. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Congress and CMS regulators,

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28:12

200th Podcast Interview: Dr. Rishi Desai Discusses...

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

2020/04/09

Listen NowNow, exactly one month after President Trump declared a national emergency, the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been largely inept. As of April 12th, the pandemic has infected over 560,000 Americans constituting slightly more than 30% of the world’s total number of infections. The US accounts for 5% of the world’s population, however, it has suffered 20% of worldwide deaths, more than 22,000 (a number that is substantially underestimated), or more than any other

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36:08

Daniel Dawes Discusses His Just-Published, "The...

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

2020/03/26

Listen NowIt is altogether appropriate to discuss the political determinants of health since this past Monday we marked the ten year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law was intended, in part, to reduce health inequities. Research published earlier this month in Health Affairs concluded, “the ACA produced broad gains in insurance coverage,” and “that coverage increased most among groups whose members were mostly likely uninsured before the reforms,” i.e., racial and ethnic

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32:45

Dr. Dan Blazer Discusses the National Academy of...

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

2020/03/25

Listen NowIncreasing social isolation and loneliness have been recognized for several decades. The issues was the topic of Harvard’s Robert Putnam’s much publicized research three decades ago, i.e., his 2000 publication "Bowling Alone." More recently, the Pope has observed “radical loneliness,” caused by a consumer culture is subverting social relationships. In Japan, loneliness deaths among the elderly have become so common the Japanese have named the phenomenon, kodokushi (lonely death). In

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CBPP's Dr. Joseph Llobrera Discusses the...

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

2020/03/11

Listen NowDespite the fact the US is a net food exporter, the country suffers a significant food security problem (defined as uncertain of having or unable to acquire enough food). Per the USDA, over 11% of Americans, or over 37 million(including 12 million children), are food insecure or worse. In addition, the US ranks first among OECD countries in obesity, a primary indicator of a poor or low nutritional diet. (Many Americans also suffer from "hidden hunger" or micro-nutrient deficiency.)

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Archway Health's Keely Macmillan Discusses Medicare...

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

2020/02/20

Listen NowCMS' efforts, via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), to develop episode-based bundled payment models in Medicare is now it its eight year. This work is currently being pursued under the 2018-initiated Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced (that succeeded the BPCI demo, begun in 2013, now concluded) and the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) and the Oncology Care Model demonstrations, both began in 2016. These models are designed to pay

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33:38

Andrea Rodgers Discusses the Recent 9th Circuit Court...

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

2020/02/11

Listen NowThis past January 17 the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Juliana v the US. Filed in 2015 by 21 children and others, the plaintiffs argued health harm caused by the federal government’s long support or promotion of the fossil fuel industry violates their Constitutional right to life and liberty, i.e., their right to a survivable climate. The plaintiffs argued further the court should redress this harm by issuing an injunction requiring the federal government to prepare a plan for

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Dr. Peter Cram Discusses Health Care Delivery In...

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

2020/01/14

Listen NowConsidering the frequent favorable assessment of Canadian health care of late, by, for example, several presidential candidates and (surprisingly) the Trump administration via its recent decision to propose a regulatory pathway for US entities to import drugs from Canada, the question is begged how or how well do the Canadians deliver universal health care and at what expense.During this 30-minute interview Dr. Cram begins by providing a general overview of population health in Canada. He

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33:17

Andrea Freeman Discusses Her Just-Published Book,...

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

2020/01/10

Listen NowProfessor Andrea Freeman's recently published, Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice, explains how and why Non-Hispanic Black women are significantly less likely to breastfeed their newborn than White, Non-Hispanics and Hispanics. Black, Non Hispanics are, instead, significantly more likely to feed their newborns formula milk. That formula, manufactured by Pet, Mead Johnson, Abbott Labs, Nestle and others and consisting of corn syrup and among other ingredients enzymatically

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