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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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37:25

Professors Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl...

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

2023/08/25

Professors Albritton Jonsson and Wennerlind’s recently published book, “Scarcity” by Harvard University Press, offers interpretations of a key concept in economic theory: scarcity, or the belief we live in a world of limited resources and therefore must master the natural world to meet desired needs. The authors state, “the book does not offer a critique of the usefulness of the neoclassical concept of scarcity, instead, the problem we highlight is that it has been far too successful,” that is “by

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34:57

Dr. Richard Young Discusses His Dystopian Healthcare...

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

2023/08/02

Dr. Young’s novel, “2060” tells the story of Willis Smith, a data analyst employed by IntegraHealth Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Smith is assigned to identify a surviving meta-quad, a patient that has survived four naturally occurring cancers. In his search Willis meets the owners of Mekong Gardens Senior Care Center who offer a distinctly different healthcare formula. The story arc peaks when the owners of Mekong Gardens’ care model is exposed and its owners are required to explain their alternative

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34:33

Sonia Roschnik Discusses the International Hospital...

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

2023/07/07

On background, listeners are aware that the US healthcare industry emits an enormous amount of GHG pollution, that hospitals are the largest contributor to industry emissions, that they are substantially energy in-efficient and that the industry’s emissions alone cause innumerable and unrelenting health harm - disproportionately impacting are Medicare seniors and Medicaid children. Despite these facts the healthcare industry on balance remains solidly uncommitted to decarbonizing. Finally,

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31:24

Professor Larry Churchill Discusses "Bioethics...

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2023/06/14

Professor Larry R. Churchill, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Vanderbilt, discusses “Biotethics Reenvisioned,” a just-published book he co-authored with Wake Forest Professor Nancy M. P. King and UNC Professor Gail E. Henderson. The authors, appropriately, argue “bioethics needs an expanded vision” or beyond one that has predominately focused on patient autonomy, beneficence and nonmaleficence. The field needs to take “a more robust role” they write and begin to address upstream issues

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34:15

285th Podcast: Wendell Potter Discusses the Recently...

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

2023/05/27

As this hour-long documentary explains US hospital care, and healthcare in sum, is largely volume-driven that over-emphasizes expensive specialty versus spending-efficient primary care. There exist few constraints on commercial healthcare pricing despite the fact hospital prices have little correlation to care quality or value, defined as outcomes achieved relative to spending. Prices also vary significantly - even within the same city. Healthcare today can be largely defined as a

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29:21

CBPP's Ms. Katie Bergh Discusses SNAP Policy (May 22nd)

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

2023/05/24

More than likely the most important legislation the Congress will pass this year or this session is the multi-year fam bill that is projected to cost $1.5t over the next 10 years. A significant component of farm bill leg is Title IV that addresses nutrition assistance, namely the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program (SNAP) that serves 42 million Americans, including one in every four children. SNAP benefits were expanded during the COVID pandemic. As of two months ago however expanded

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36:21

East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s Dr. Trede...

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2023/05/18

In February the CDC released its latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey findings. Somewhat needless to say the data is discouraging. For example, in 2021 40% of high school students, 60% of high school female students and 70% of high school LGBQ students reported feeling sad or hopeless. Among other findings, 22% of high school students had seriously considering suicide, 18% made a suicide plan and 10% had attempted suicide - these percentages are the highest reported since the first Youth Risk

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35:11

Ms. Kelly Willis Discusses the IPCC's "Last Warning"...

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

2023/04/19

This past March 20th the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its fourth and last sixth assessment cycle (AR6) report. This last report integrates the main findings of the IPCC's three, sixth assessment working group reports published over the past 18 months. The report has been informally termed the “last warning” since the IPCC 7th assessment work will likely not be published until after 2030 - at which time we’ll know whether we have succeeded or not in

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37:02

280th Interview: Mr. Clark Reed, the EPA's Energy...

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

2023/03/25

In June 2021 I argued in STAT News that HHS require healthcare providers to publicly disclose their GHG emissions that in turn would help enable the healthcare industry to decarbonize. In order to do this, I argued the the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) Energy Star Portfolio Manager tool be exploited. Already well over 50% of hospitals use Energy Star to better manger their energy consumption, i.e., improve their energy efficiency. Energy Star, an online energy benchmarking tool widely

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35:44

Oxford Professor Neta Crawford Discusses Her...

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

2023/03/23

The US government is frequently defined generally as an army with an insurance company. Regarding the latter, podcast listeners are well aware federal healthcare policymakers have essentially done nothing to address the healthcare industry's annual 500 million ton carbon footprint, 9% of total annual US GHG emissions, despite the fact that at $1.5 trillion the federal government is far and away the largest purchaser of healthcare services. What about the army? The army, or the Department of

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38:16

Dr. Eric Reinhart Remembers Paul Farmer (March 13th)

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

2023/03/14

Dr. Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away on February 21, 2022. He was 62. Trained as physician and medical anthropologist, Dr. Farmer was known moreover for his healthcare work in Haiti that he more formally forwarded via Partners in Health (PIH), an organization he cofounded in 1987. Over the subsequent years Dr. Farmer and PIH expanded their work around the world in Africa, Russia, South America and in the US. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues were also widely known for their international

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33:47

Stanford's Mark Jacobson Discusses His Latest, "No...

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

2023/03/06

Listeners may recall two years ago this past month I interviewed Professor Jacobson regarding his text “100% Clean Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.” I noted in my introduction to that 2021 interview Prof. Jacobson argued since 2009 100% of the world’s energy supply could be produced via solar, wind and water power within 20 to 30 years. The barriers to a 100% conversion to renewables are not, he continues to argue, technological or even economic but social and political. In “No

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33:32

Prof. Julianne Holt-Lunstad Discusses Social...

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

2023/02/23

Since suicides serve as a proxy measure for social isolation and loneliness (SIL), last week the CDC reported after declines in 2019 and 2020, suicides increased 7% in ‘21, particularly among those 25-44, to 48,343 returning their peak in 2018. Over the past 2 decades suicides have increased 30%, they are now is the 12th leading cause of death. Also in 2021, the CDC’s most recent bi-annual Youth Risk Beh Survey, published this past November, found among other things teenage girls experienced

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46:01

Prof. Toshihiro Higuchi Discusses His Work,...

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

2023/02/23

The word Anthropocene has been used over the past 20 years to define the modern era during which time man has come to shape the environment. This reality became significantly more pronounced with the advent of the nuclear Anthropocene. As Prof. Higuchi explains in the introduction of "Political Fallout," from 1945 to 1963, when the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) was signed by the US, the Soviet Union and Britain, these three nations conducted approximately 450 nuclear weapons tests, in sum equal

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34:23

275th Interview: John Abraham Discusses the Continued...

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

2023/01/24

Listen Now(Listeners may recall Professor Abraham discussed 2021 ocean warming last year on January 18.)As a possible reminder, oceans, that cover 71 percent of Earth’s surface, absorb 93% of the heat energy trapped by greenhouse gases, termed ocean heat content (OHC). Increased OHC in 2022 is not surprisingly when you consider global CO2 emissions increased by over two billion tons or rose by 6% to a total of 36.3 billion tons in 2021, their highest ever level. In 2022 the planet’s seas

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37:51

Attorney Ms. Jayne Conroy Discusses Prosecuting...

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

2023/01/21

US healthcare fraud remains pervasive. For example, this past November Pro Publica and The New Yorker published, “How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle." (The article may remind readers of Eric Hoffer’s comment, “every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.") The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates healthcare fraud across the entire industry can be as high as 10% of total annual healthcare spending,

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35:42

Dr. Susan Linn Discusses Her Just-Published Book,...

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

2022/12/17

(This interview is dedicated to my friend Randy Lee, a dedicated public health nurse, who passed away earlier this week.) Justin Smith in his book published earlier this year, The Internet is Not What You Think It Is, argued the internet is addictive, its use of algorithms leaves our lives warped and impoverished and despite these problems there is little or no federal regulatory oversight. Concerning the internet’s effects on children, Dr. Linn argues in her recently published work, Who's

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33:47

Andrew MacCalla Discusses Reducing Healthcare's...

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

2022/12/10

Listeners are aware I recently posted two articles related to decarbonizing the healthcare industry. One regarding Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits and another arguing CMS update two, 2016 regulatory rules to allow providers to use for solar microgrids for their emergency power supply. Listeners are also aware I’ve conducted well over 25 climate crisis-related interviews over the past several years. For these reasons, this discussion is an attempt to help providers know better how to

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Dr. Jeroen Struijs Discusses Designing Alternative...

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

2022/11/02

Having posted over 25 related climate and health-related interviews over the past several years, podcast listeners are aware that the healthcare industry effectively exists in a harm-treat-harm cycle where providers cause patients harm via their greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution - that requires treatment causing providers to emit more harmful GHG pollution added - that leads to more patent harm - that leads to . . . . In September I posted an article that appeared in Health Affairs in which I argued

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Patricia Goldsmith Discusses CancerCare (October 5th)

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

2022/10/07

After heart disease cancer is the leading cause of mortality in the US at over 600,000 deaths annually. Not surprisingly cancer care costs are considerable at approximately $210 billion of which approximately 10% is paid out of pocket. This explains why in part up to 30% of Medicare beneficiaries without subsidies do not fill their anticancer prescriptions. To make matters worse, the COVID pandemic has significantly compromised cancer diagnosis and treatment that are expected to produce negative

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