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Latest Episodes
The ‘Shkreli Awards’ — for dysfunction and profiteering in health care
The Lown Institutes contest for this years most outrageous stories of greed in health care.
A listener fighting the good fight
To close out the year, we spoke with a very cool listener a medical resident fighting for change.
Revisiting ‘Christmas In July’
From the archives: a family tragedy, a 40-year tradition, and a $1 million in medical debt erased.
New lessons from the fight for charity care
For instance: It's a $14 billion battle.
Fight health insurance — with help from AI
I hate insurance companies, says tech worker Holden Karau. So she made a bot to battle with them.
Can racism make you sick?
Violence, silences, and public health, with journalist Cara Anthony
Special Feature: A Beloved Nursing Home, from “To See Each Other”
We're sharing an episode of To See Each Other, about a question thats SUPER-relevant to this show: How do we pay for long-term care, like nursing homes? To See Each Other aims to complicate the narrative about small-town Americans. In
“Baby steps” in the fight against facility fees
States are tackling facility fees, but its slow going.
Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)
How one rural hospital dealt with a cyberattack.