PBS
How to Weigh Job Benefits
Salaries are easy to compare, but when it comes to the other stuff like health plans, day care, vacation and schedule flexibility, it can take a bit of brain power to figure out which job offer is best!
Zach Star
Making $80,000 per Year Right Out of College
In this video I discuss my personal starting salary as an engineer right out of college as well as my expenses. Of course these numbers are unique to me and will different a lot from person to person and especially country to country....
Hip Hughes History
America and the Elite Theory of Democracy
Mr. Hughes lays a little lovin' on you in the form of a short summary of the elite theory of government. No not communist propaganda or the Democratic playbook of hamming up class warfare, just an honest analysis of the intention of the...
Hip Hughes History
Killing ObamaCare: Explaining King vs Burwell
An overview of the current lawsuit being examined by the Supreme Court which could theoretically kill Obamacare.
Healthcare Triage
Innovation in a Changing US Health System
The US healthcare system has a lot of issues, but one thing it's got going for it is innovation. More clinical trials originate in the United States, and more Nobel Physiology and Medicine Laureates are from here than from any other...
Healthcare Triage
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Their Health Care Proposals
We've got an election coming up here. It's pretty much a dumpster fire. But we've still got a country to run, and a health care system that's far from ideal. There are two main candidates, two main health care reform plans, and we're...
Healthcare Triage
Suicide Rates and Insights from Medical Sociology - Healthcare Triage
Aaron's guest this month is Dr. Bernice Pescosolido, who is a medical sociologist at Indiana University. Dr. Pescosolido studies the environments, neighborhoods, and connections that contribute to patients' identities, and looks how this...
Healthcare Triage
The Pitfalls of Cost Sharing for Healthcare
Cost-sharing is the practice of making individuals responsible for part of their health insurance costs beyond the monthly premiums they pay for health insurance - think things like deductibles and copayments. The practice is meant to...
Healthcare Triage
Does More Social Spending Reduce Healthcare Costs?
We spend a lot of money on social programs. Studies indicate that a lot of those programs work to improve health outcomes for people who receive the benefits. So, does that social spending reduce healthcare costs? Not really. But cutting...
Healthcare Triage
When Drug Costs Are High, Patients Skip Doses
The idea behind cost-sharing in healthcare costs goes something like this: If the patient is responsible for some part of the cost of their care, they'll be more judicious in their choices of treatment, and healthcare spending will...
Healthcare Triage
The Recent Executive Order Can't Fix Healthcare
The president recently signed an executive order on a handful of health care issues. Among other things, it points to protections for those with preexisting conditions. But does it do anything more than point at them? What exactly does...
Healthcare Triage
When Parents Go to Prison, Children Suffer Consequences
When parents go to prison, their children’s lives are changed. It’s happening more and more to kids in the United States, and it comes at a price that can immediately impact their lives and can have long-term consequences. This episode...
PBS
How did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
If there's one debate you can't avoid today it's what do about the US health insurance. While many countries around the world have some form of nationalized, government run healthcare most people in the US have their healthcare provided...
Healthcare Triage
Employer-Based Insurance Can Trap You at Work
For better or worse, health insurance in the United States is largely furnished by employers. One of the worse aspects of employer funded health care is that people may be less likely to change jobs, or to start a business.
Healthcare Triage
Brain Injuries & CTE: Detection, Treatment, and Prevention: Healthcare Triage Podcast
This month Aaron is talking to Dr. Tom McAllister, the Albert Eugene Sterne Professor and Chairman, Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. He specializes in studying brain injuries and chronic traumatic...
Hip Hughes History
The Bill That Was Killed: Trumpcare Explained
An overview of the failed bill, Trumpcare, also known as Ryancare or the American Health Care Act, AHCA. A teacherly explanation of how the AHCA would have changed Obamacare.
Healthcare Triage
Why Don't We Invest More in Public Health?
Many, many studies conclude that investing in public health is more effective than continually increasing spending on expensive treatments. So why doesn't the US spend more on public health?
Healthcare Triage
Most People Don't Need Vitamin D Supplements
There's a big study out from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Systematic Review. Meta Analysis. Trial sequential analysis. This one’s got it all!
Healthcare Triage
Better Ways to Cut Healthcare Waste
A surprising amount of spending on healthcare in America is wasteful - we’ve talked about that before. In today’s episode, we discuss different approaches to reducing that waste, and potential barriers standing in the way.
Healthcare Triage
Health Harms from Pollution Can Choke the Economy
The Trump Administration's EPA has shown a propensity to ease regulations on polluting industries, in hopes of increasing economic output. Pollution has a lot of very well studied impacts on health, and those health problems can decrease...
Healthcare Triage
Which Drug Will Work Best for You? We Need Comparative Effectiveness Research
The FDA's drug approval process is pretty good at determining which drugs are safe and effective. What the FDA doesn't look into is how similar drugs compare to one another. If there are three competing blood pressure drugs on the...
Healthcare Triage
Planned Parenthood Withdraws from Title X Funding: What Does That Mean For Patients?
Title X is a federally funded Family Planning Program that has been around since 1970 as part of the Public Health Service Act. Following new restrictions on healthcare providers in clinics receiving Title X funding, Planned Parenthood...
Healthcare Triage
Election Results Impact the ACA, Medicaid Expansion, and Marijuana
Yesterday's election results have a lot of impact on health care in the United States. The new Democratic House of Representatives and the ACA, expansion of Medicaid in red states, and medical and recreational marijuana are all affected...
Healthcare Triage
The Opioid Crisis and the Way Forward
This is part 4 in our series on the opioid crisis, presented with support from the NIHCM Foundation. We've talked about the state of the opioid crisis, deaths of despair, and the disappointing evidence about marijuana as a treatment for...