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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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33:52

250th Podcast: Harvard's Dr. Aaron Bernstein...

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2021/11/21

Concerning the recent United Nation’s COP 26 meeting in Glasgow, again unverifiable pledges were made moreover to cut methane gas emissions by 30% by 2030, limit deforestation and adequately finance converting to a green economy. The US continued to exhibit intransience and/or fecklessness moreover by refusing to sign a pledge to phase out coal despite the fact it is the single biggest source of CO2 emissions worldwide and the fact the US still generates 20% of its electricity from coal. The US

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36:43

Brookings' Carol Graham Discusses America's Crisis of...

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2021/11/09

Last November 9th I discussed declining life expectancy in the US with Dr. Steven Woolf, i.e., US life expectancy stopped increasing in 2010 and had been decreasing since 2014. This is significantly due to increasing mortality rates among men, disproportionately white men aged 25-64, for approximately 30 disease conditions ranging from cancer, cerebrovascular, circulatory, genitourinary, infectious mental and behavioral, musculoskeletal, nervous, and respiratory diseases. These premature deaths

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34:00

Austin Whitman, Climate Neutral's CEO, Discusses...

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2021/09/28

Greenwashing is generally defined as a public relations or marketing practice used to deceptively persuade the public an organization is environmentally responsible. In recent related news, after an Exxon lobbyist was caught on tape admitting efforts to undermine the Biden administration's efforts to address the climate crisis, last week the House Government and Oversight Committee requested documents by Exxon and others regarding the industry’s long running campaign to spread disinformation about

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39:54

Professors Gibson-Davis and Hill Discuss The Effects...

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2021/09/22

This interview discusses the recently published series of ten articles edited by Professors Gibson-Davis and Heather D. Hill titled, "Wealth Inequality and Child Development: Implications for Policy and Practice," appearing in the August issue of The Russel Sage Foundation's Journal of the Social Sciences. The US suffers both extreme economic inequality. For example, per June Federal Reserve data, the wealthiest 1% of Americans control approximately $42 trillion in wealth compared to the bottom

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35:58

Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse Discuss Their...

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2021/09/15

Ken Langa's dust jacket summary appropriately states, the authors, "make clear that, in order to understand health and cognitive decline more fully, we must consider the quality and inclusiveness of the environment through which we travel from birth to death." Alzheimer's or brain health should not be simply conceived or understood, the authors' argue, at a biological level but also the result of material conditions of life mediated by political-economic organizations that dictate public policy -

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32:03

245th Interview: Dan Troy Discusses 3D Bioprinting...

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2021/09/07

Approximately 100,000 Americans are waiting an organ transplant. The vast majority will are awaiting a a kidney - that, on average, will take five years. Approximately 20 Americans die every day awaiting an organ. These and related statistics rank the US well below other developed countries. For example, only 30% of US kidney failure patients have a functioning transplant and only 3% have received a preemptive transplant. For these reasons CMS recently announced three kidney disease

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41:16

Matt Salo Discusses Potential Medicaid Program...

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2021/08/12

This past Tuesday Senate Democrats passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution what would allow Congressional Democrats to fund significant health care reforms along with education, immigration, climate crisis and other termed “care economy” policies. Among other healthcare policies Congressional Democrats are working to fund are expansions to Medicare coverage, boost by $400 billion Medicaid Home and Community Based Service (HCBS ) waiver funding and address health equity issues. Dedicated listeners

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32:36

TFAH's Adam Lustig Discusses Social Determinants of...

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2021/08/10

As listeners are likely aware the Biden administration has given priority to addressing health equity, meaning distributing health-related resources based on recipients’ needs. This is not surprising since, in part, research published in JAMA in June 2019 by Zimmerman and Anderson concluded, "there has been a clear lack of progress in health equity during the past 25 years in the US." (Think: the failure of neoliberalism.) When discussing health equity, the issue of social determinants of

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34:44

Dr. Lawrence Krauss Discusses His Recently Published...

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2021/07/09

In late May I interviewed John Kotcher regarding his survey that showed physicians worldwide had a limited understanding of the climate crisis and its health effects. For example, 41% said they lacked sufficient knowledge to discuss the topic and less than half also believed the climate crisis is responsible for heat-related illnesses and increases in vector borne diseases. Since the climate crisis will pose increasingly harmful human health consequences, especially for Medicare and Medicaid

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41:19

Harvard's Eric Reinhart Discusses Why Mass...

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2021/06/25

The US prison and jail population is the largest in the world at two million. With 4.2% of the world’s population, the US accounts for roughly 25% of the world’s prisoners. African Americans, at 13% of the general population, account for 34% of the prison population. Much like the effect COVID-19 has had Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) residents, prisons and jails have also constituted killing fields. Beyond this, prisons and jails serve as infectious disease multipliers, or as epidemiological

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240th Podcast: Brian Alexander Discusses His Recently...

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2021/06/23

In The Hospital, Mr. Alexander provides an account of Bryan, Ohio's Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers (or CHWCs) hospital’s efforts to stay solvent between 2018 and 2020. The work, in many ways is a companion to Nick Freudenberg's "At What Cost, Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health (I interviewed Prof. Freudenberg on May 20th), is particularly timely because rural hospitals, that serve roughly one in five Americans, are closing at a record rate. For example, 136 have closed since 2010

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Ms. Priti Krishtel Discusses the Biden...

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2021/06/11

Last October India and South Africa appealed to the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive patent or intellectual property (IP) rights such that COVID-19 production and distribution worldwide could be accelerated. As of a month ago 80% of COVID-19 vaccines had gone to those in in high or upper middle income countries while only 0.2% had gone to those in low income countries - meaning it was projected to take until 2024 to inoculate developing world populations. The Trump administration

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35:17

Dr. Robert Phillips Discusses the National Academy of...

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2021/06/09

Listen NowPodcast listeners are aware US healthcare significantly underperforms. Among numerous other statistics, despite spending approximately twice what comparative countries spend on healthcare, the US has highest rates of preventable deaths. Even wealthy Americans are more likely to, for example, die during childbirth, from cancer and from heart attacks than those in 12 comparative countries. This is substantially due to the fact primary care in the US, as the National Academy of Medicine

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29:22

John Kotcher Discusses His Recent Survey of...

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2021/05/28

Listen NowDespite a long history of engagement in various political and social and issues, for example, from the nuclear test ban treaty to the global AIDS epidemic, healthcare professionals have been largely absent in addressing the climate crisis. This helps explain why the health care industry has been, in sum, absent from addressing what the World Health Organization has defined as the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century or what Nobel Price economist William Nordhaus (noted for

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33:06

CUNY's Nick Freudenberg Discusses His Just-Published...

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2021/05/21

Listen NowAs the book's dust jacket notes, At What Cost, Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health [ recently published by Oxford University Press] confronts how globalization, financial speculation, monopolies, and control of science and technology have enhanced the ability of corporations and their allies to overwhelm influences of government, family, community, and faith. As corporations manipulate demand through skillful marketing and veto the choices that undermine their bottom line, free

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31:25

The Arc's Nicole Jorwic Discusses President Biden's...

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2021/04/29

Listen NowOver the past several weeks the Biden administration has incrementally released proposed infrastructure policies under the title, "Build Back Better." The White House defines infrastructure to include human capital that under grid the functioning of the economy. (As Bryce Covert noted in yesterdays The New York Times, Lanham Act funds, initially used to fund infrastructure deemed critical to the war effort, eventually became used to build child care centers when it was learned children

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35:14

Mt Sinai's Professor Shanna Swan Discusses Her...

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2021/04/25

Listen NowIn her recently published volume, co-authored with Stacey Colina, Countdown: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race, discuss the relationship between our exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and the dramatic decline in global fertility rates over roughly the past half century – a finding that was initially documented in the early 1990s and again in 2017 when Professor Swan

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46:30

Drs. Braveman and Gottlieb Discuss Addressing Social...

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2021/03/31

Listen Now(As explained on the podcast home page, this is the last of eight interviews concerning federal healthcare policy reform. This discussion is with UCSF's Dr. Paula Braveman and Dr. Laura Gottlieb and was conducted in early January. 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.)The US ranks last or near

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Brookings' Dr. Matt Fiedler Discusses the Public...

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2021/03/28

Listen NowDespite coverage gains obtained under the ACA, today, approximately 13% of Americans or over 30 million are uninsured and 43 percent or approximately 115 million Americans are under-insured. Broadly defined, the public option is a government regulated if not managed health insurance plan that pays reimbursement rates comparable to Medicare or significantly lower than commercial insurers. A public option plan was passed by the House during the ACA debate in 2009 but failed in committee

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Dr. Kate Goodrich Discusses Healthcare Quality Reform...

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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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