Tradeoffs
Tradeoffs

Tradeoffs

Tradeoffs

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Tradeoffs is an award-winning nonprofit news organization on a mission to help the folks on Main Street, Wall Street and Capitol Hill have smarter, more honest conversations about health policy. 


Founded in 2019 by former Senior Health Care Reporter at Marketplace, Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs’ journalism combines data, evidence and storytelling to help people better understand the complicated, costly and often counterintuitive world of health care.


Learn more about us and find transcripts for each episode at https://tradeoffs.org




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Recent Episodes

How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?
APR 25, 2024
How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?

Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly turn into $10,000 hospital visits. America’s health care leaders have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned?


Guests:

Jeff Brenner, MD, CEO, The Jewish Board

Arthur Brown, Client, Camden Coalition

Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America

Allison Hamblin, MSPH, President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies

Paula Lantz, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan

Larry Moore, Client, Camden Coalition

Kathleen Noonan, JD, President and CEO, Camden Coalition

Dottie Scott, Community Health Worker, Camden Coalition

Brian Thompson, Housing Coordinator, Camden Coalition

Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs


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92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned
APR 11, 2024
92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned

As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.


Guest:

Sandy E. James, JD, PhD, Lead Researcher, 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey


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Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?
APR 4, 2024
Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?

Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and Latina girls get left behind?


Guests:

Monica Bhatt, PhD, Senior Research Director, University of Chicago Education Lab

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD, Professor, Washington University

Kathleen Ethier, PhD, Director, CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health

Ngozi Harris, LCPC, Working on Womanhood Director of Program and Staff Development, Youth Guidance

Shekinah Jackson, Working on Womanhood Participant

Nora-Lisa Malloy, Working on Womanhood Counselor, Youth Guidance

Heidi Sipe, EdS, Superintendent, Umatilla School District (OR)


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Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess
MAR 28, 2024
Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices. 


Guest:

Benjamin Chartock, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bentley University


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19 MIN