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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 year on record with 1,176 law enforcement gun deaths, or more than three people per day and n
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. Because of the rapid increase in climate crisis-related harms projected economic losses worldwi
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 $900 billion annually or 21% of total healthcare spending. In this edited volume, recently pu
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 billion annual business; federal policymakers have over the past few years instituted regula
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 in economic theory: scarcity, or the belief we live in a world of limited resources and t
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 identify a surviving meta-quad, a patient that has survived four naturally occurring cancers. In h
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 contributor to industry emissions, that they are substantially energy in-efficient and that the ind
Professor Larry Churchill Discusses "Bioethics Reenvisioned, A Path Toward Health Justice"
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
285th Podcast: Wendell Potter Discusses the Recently Released Documentary, "American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System" (May 26th)
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 p
CBPP's Ms. Katie Bergh Discusses SNAP Policy (May 22nd)
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 ad
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s Dr. Trede and Ms. Shapiro, a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Discuss the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey Findings in Light of Their Clinical Care (May 17th)
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
Ms. Kelly Willis Discusses the IPCC's "Last Warning" Report and the Upcoming COP 28 Meeting (April 18th)
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
280th Interview: Mr. Clark Reed, the EPA's Energy Star National Program Manager, Explains the Energy Star Program (March 24th)
In June 2021 I argued in STAT News (https://www.statnews.com/2021/06/29/public-reporting-health-care-greenhouse-gas-emissions/) that HHS require healthcare providers to publicly disclose their GHG emissions that in turn would help enable th
Oxford Professor Neta Crawford Discusses Her Just-Published, "The Pentagon, Climate Change and War" (March 22nd)
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'
Dr. Eric Reinhart Remembers Paul Farmer (March 13th)
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
Stanford's Mark Jacobson Discusses His Latest, "No Miracles Needed, How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air" (March 6th)
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 2
Prof. Julianne Holt-Lunstad Discusses Social Isolation and Loneliness (February 15th)
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 2
Prof. Toshihiro Higuchi Discusses His Work, "Political Fallout, Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis" (February 8th)
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 P
275th Interview: John Abraham Discusses the Continued Rapid Increase in Ocean Heat Content (January 23rd)
Listen Now (https://traffic.libsyn.com/thehealthcarepolicypodcast/Abraham_II.mp3) (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’
Attorney Ms. Jayne Conroy Discusses Prosecuting Healthcare Fraud in Part Via Use of Criminal Statutes (January 19th)
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, “eve
Dr. Susan Linn Discusses Her Just-Published Book, "Who's Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business and the Lives of Children" (December 16th)
(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
Andrew MacCalla Discusses Reducing Healthcare's Carbon Emissions Via Solar Microgrids (December 9th)
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
Dr. Jeroen Struijs Discusses Designing Alternative Payment Insurance Models to Green the Healthcare Industry (November 1st)
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
Patricia Goldsmith Discusses CancerCare (October 5th)
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
Dr. Jeni Miller Discusses a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (October 4th)
This summer the planet once again experienced record temperatures, droughts, wildfires and extreme weather events. Nevertheless, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency and OECD, global public subsidies of fossil fue
Substack Post #6, "CMS and the Masquerade of Equality" (September 26th)
Is at: https://substack.com/inbox/post/75107864. It opens with: In summarizing Professor Jedediah Purdy’s recent book, Two Cheers for Politics, The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik recently wrote, “He [Purdy] is angry at the elites who supervise th
Matthew Albright Discusses Hospital and Insurer or Payer Price Transparency (September 13th)
Over the past few years federal policymakers have instituted healthcare price transparency. Until last year, healthcare prices were largely, if not altogether, unknown to patients. As of this past July 1 most group health plans and issuers
Greg Segal Discusses Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy Reform (August 16th)
During its recent August 3rd hearing titled, “A System in Need of Repair: Addressing Organizational Failures of the U.S.’s Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network," Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Ron Wyden (D-OR), characterized ef
NACHC's Jeremy Crandall Discusses Inflation Reduction Act-Related Policy Reforms (August 4th)
Two weeks ago Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, announced the $739 billion Inflation Reduction (IRA) Act of 2022, compromise legislation agreed upon by Senator Manchin. The bill includes just a few of the healthcare policy reform provi
265th Podcast: Professor Josiah Rector Discusses His Recently Published Book, "Toxic Debt, An Environmental Justice History of Detroit" (July 12th)
Toxic Debt, An Environmental History Justice History of Detroit, just published by North Carolina University Press in its Justice, Power and Politics series, is largely a history of failure by federal, state and local government officials t
