The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso
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The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso
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 heal...
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Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Recently published research by Prof. Wrigley-Field and her colleagues found that between 1980 and 2023 the total number of US excess deaths equaled 14...
Devin Kellis Argues for Extinction Medicine as a Medical Specialty
The greatest threat to human health is us. Humans are the only species capable of self-annihilation. For at least the past 30 years it has been ackn...
The Sabin Climate Law Center's Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre Discusses the ICJ's Recent Climate Advisory Opinion
On July 23rd the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced its highly-anticipated climate advisory opinion. The opinion represent...
Stanford's Mark Jacobson Discusses the Likely Climate Effects of the OBBBA & the Current Status of Renewable Energy Development
The climate crisis is not a tragedy. It’s a crime. The July 4 signing of HR1, is the latest if not the greatest climate crime considering the current...
The Institute for New Economic Thinking's Thomas Ferguson Discusses Congressional Realities That Explain Passage of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
Last week’s signing of the OBBBA serves as federal policymakers’ latest reverse Robin Hood effort, or to redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich...
The World Council of Churches' Ms. Frederique Seidel Discusses the WCC's Recently-Published Handbook, "Hope for Children Through Climate Justice, Legal Tools to Hold Financiers Accountable"
Anthropocentric warming, the greatest threat to human health and survival, disproportionately threatens children. Children pay the greatest climate p...
Eneration's Jeff Rich and Laura Olson Discuss Their Efforts to Vastly Improve Healthcare Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
Frequent listeners of this podcast are well aware healthcare emits an immense amount of carbon pollution at over 600 million metric tons annually. Th...
Stanford's Dr. Chris Callahan Discusses Attribution Science & His Recently Related Article Published in "Nature"
Due to the federal government’s ongoing failure to effectively address the climate crisis, over 50 subnational entities have been taking increasingly...
Director Don Lieber Discusses the "First Do No Harm" Campaign
Despite the fact US healthcare has $7.6 trillion market cap and is beyond capital intensive, industry executives have been loathe to divest in fossil...
Johns Hopkins' Economics Prof. Melinda Buntin Discusses Slowing Healthcare Spending Growth Over the Past Two Decades
US healthcare costs and spending are extreme made evident by the fact healthcare at a $5 trillion annually accounts for roughly half the global health...
CUNY's Dr. Lyndon Haviland Discusses the Government's Response to the Measles Outbreak
At present, measles, one of the most contagious communicable diseases for which there is no treatment, disproportionately sickens - and kills - presch...
Healthcare Policy Attorney Alissa Smith Discusses What To Know If/When ICE Knocks
The Trump administration has made no secret it intends to aggressively enforce immigration laws, made evident by the recent arrest of a Columbia Unive...
Alexander Howard Discusses HHS Secretary Kennedy's Richardson Waiver Recission
Two weeks after being sworn in, last Friday HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy announced, “effectively immediately, the [1971] Richardson Waiver is rescinde...
Prof. John Abraham Discusses Accelerated Ocean Temperature Warming and Heat Content
Last year was the first calendar year with a global mean temperature of more than 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average. Since 90% of global warming is o...
Hip Hop Caucus' Stephone Coward and Stand.earth's Hannah Saggau Discuss Citi's Contribution to Cancer Alley
Under the Biden administration the US once again became the world’s largest producer of oil and gas. Because all fossil fuels projects are politicall...
Attorney Andrea Rodgers Discusses Children's Litigation Efforts to Achieve Climate Justice
To begin my 14th year podcasting . . . , per the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Unversity, as of last September there were 1,850 clim...
Prof. Stephanie Alice Baker Discusses TikTok's Promotion of Fake Cancer Cures
After heart disease cancer is the leading cause of death in the US. Forty percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Tim...
310th Interview: John Washington Discusses His Just-Published, "The Case for Open Borders"
The human rights/public health crisis known as US border policy serves as further proof of what Richard Hofstadter termed in 1964 the “paranoid style...
Prof. Daniel Goldberg Discusses His Recently Published, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries"
Beyond roughly 1,700 NFL players, five to six million children participate in tackle football. As a collision sport, brain (or TBI) and other neurolo...
Dr. Troyen Brennan Discusses His Just-Published Book, "The Transformation of American Health Insurance, On the Path to Medicare for All"
Harvard Chan School of Public Health’s Dr. Troy Brennan argues in sum that because government Medicare, Medicaid and ACA marketplaces have grown and e...
Dr. Charles LeBaron Discusses His Just Published Book, "Greed to Good, The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids"
This century drug overdose deaths have equaled roughly 1.1 million largely due to overdose deaths among men that increased from 15,000 to 80,000. As...
Prof. Tad Delay Discusses His Recent Work, "Future of Denial, The Ideologies of Climate Change"
Climate denial remains rife in the US. For example, in Washington, D.C., nearly 25% of the current members of Congress are, via their public statemen...
Ms. Alyson Rosenthal Discusses Food As Medicine
In the recent past, hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition have (re)gained policymakers’ interest largely due to the COVID pandemic and accelerating...
Nathan Martinez Discusses the Government’s Attempt to Address Out of Network Healthcare Billing
In late 2020 the Congress passed the No Surprises Act largely intended to address patient “surprise,” or out of network bills, typically the result of...
Stephanie Wang Discusses the Health Disparities Think Tank
Over the past four decades the US has, per a 2019 JAMA-published study, made a “clear lack of progress on health equity.” Health equity or disparitie...
Columbia's Sabin Center's Executive Director, Michael Burger, Discusses State of Play Re: Climate Crisis-Related Litigation
Mr. Burger joins me to discuss climate crisis-related litigation here and abroad and its effectiveness in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Dedicated...
Clayton Page Aldern Discusses His Recently Published, "The Weight of Nature, How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains"
Climate-related health effects are typically defined or limited to those resulting from extreme weather events, exacerbations of chronic disease and i...
300th Podcast Interview: Merle Hoffman Discusses Her Just-Published, "CHOICES, A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto"
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court in June 2022 reversed the court’s previous 1973 Roe v Wade decision, and 20 related...
Dr. Mitchell Li Discusses Reforming Corporate Practice of Medicine Legislation
Over the past 12 years this podcast has discussed increasing corporate dominance of healthcare delivery, made evident in part by the fact the healthca...
Professor John Abraham Discusses Rising Ocean Heat Content
Research published last month in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences by Prof. Abraham and his colleagues once again show ocean temperatures, more specifi...
Dr. Ajay Chaudhary Discusses "The Exhausted of the Earth, Politics in a Burning World"
In his soon-to-be-published book, Dr. Chaudhary argues the climate crisis or the Anthropocene era is the political product of rightwing climate realis...
Dr. Robert Scoggins Discusses Medicare's Recent Regulatory Reform to Improve Sepsis Care
Sepsis presents an enormous public health threat. There are for approximately 1.7 million hospital cases and 270,000 deaths per year. Sepsis is cons...
David Ropeik Discusses His Just-Published Book, "Curing Cancer-Phobia, How Risk, Fear and Worry Mislead Us"
In part because there are over 10,000 known human diseases and symptoms thereof may have numerous possible explanations, frequently diagnostic tests c...
UCLA Law Professor Joanna Schwartz Discusses Her Just-Published, "Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable"
According to the non-profit Mapping Police Violence, since 2013 when experts first starting tracking police shootings, last year was the deadliest yea...
Columbia University's Ms. Cynthia Hanawalt Discusses Public Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
US healthcare emits a massive amount of carbon pollution at approximately 600 million tons annually or roughly 9% of total US greenhouse gasses. Beca...
Dr. Robert Moffit Discusses "Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Market Competition"
US healthcare spending is extreme currently at approximately $4.3 trillion. The single largest payer of healthcare services is Medicare at roughly $9...
Prof. Nancy Tomes Discusses Patients as Consumers and to What Extent Defining Medicine as a Commodity Has Proven Useful
Over the past several decades healthcare has increasingly defined patients as medical consumers. For example, healthcare advertising is today a $22 b...
Professors Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind Discuss They're Recently Published Book, "Scarcity: A History From the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis"
Professors Albritton Jonsson and Wennerlind’s recently published book, “Scarcity” by Harvard University Press, offers interpretations of a key concept...
Dr. Richard Young Discusses His Dystopian Healthcare Novel, "2060" (August 1st)
Dr. Young’s novel, “2060” tells the story of Willis Smith, a data analyst employed by IntegraHealth Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Smith is assigned to identif...
Sonia Roschnik Discusses the International Hospital Federation's Environmental Sustainability Programming
On background, listeners are aware that the US healthcare industry emits an enormous amount of GHG pollution, that hospitals are the largest contribu...