by Jordana Choucair | May 20, 2021 | Latest News, Podcasts
Did you know that roughly 1 percent of the entire federal budget is spent treating people with kidney failure? That’s billions of dollars devoted to treating one preventable illness. How did we end up with so many people on dialysis? And who’s getting rich from it?...
by Jordana Choucair | May 13, 2021 | Latest News, Podcasts
This week on “The Cost of Care” Venice Haynes and Meredith Shockley-Smith join David to talk broadly about social determinants and why black babies are twice as likely to die than white babies. David also speaks to Marquisse Watson – a mother whose baby girl Alana...
by Jordana Choucair | May 6, 2021 | Latest News, Podcasts
The health care system is basically a lucrative game of tug-of-war – and the winner reaps a trillion dollar pot of gold. But is it a fair game? This week on “The Cost of Care,” David explores the monstrous fee-for service system and how the results can lead to a total...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 29, 2021 | Latest News, Podcasts
This week, David talks to Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, about how a mother and nurse at Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital, ended up with a $1.7 million dollar bill for the birth of her premature baby girl. Listen to Episode 4:...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 22, 2021 | Latest News, Podcasts
This week, David and his guests talk about surprise billing, and how many patients are too afraid to walk through providers’ doors for fear of going into unnecessary debt.
by webmaster | Apr 3, 2021 | Latest News, Podcasts
With some help from an economic historian and a health care journalist, David goes back to the 1900s to find out how we ended up outspending other countries for five years less of life.
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