Healthcare Triage
Medicare For All: What Does it Actually Mean?
Medicare for All has become wildly popular among Democrats running for office these days. But what does that mean exactly? It's complicated, if you can believe that. Does this include universal coverage? What happens to employer-based...
Hip Hughes History
ObamaCare: The Affordable Care Act Explained
Explaining the fundamentals of Obamacare for students and lifelong learners.
Healthcare Triage
Infants and the Medicaid Expansion
What can we do about infant mortality and disparities in health care? This week we take a look at a recent study in JAMA that may have an answer.
Healthcare Triage
The Health System of Taiwan: HCT Healthcare of Many Nations
Every once in a while, we like to take a moment and focus on health systems around the world. Today, we're looking at Taiwan, which made the transition to a single payer system kind of suddenly, and pretty recently.
Healthcare Triage
The Reality of Work Requirements for Medicaid
We’ve spent the last few weeks talking work requirements for safety net programs, and it’s all been leading up to this: work requirements for Medicaid. By looking at the EITC and TANF, we learned some things. Can these lessons inform...
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Health Care’s Complicated History
Health care reform has become a major political issue in the United States. There are high costs for patients as well as the consequences of having millions of uninsured Americans. With many recent legislative votes on health care, the...
Healthcare Triage
Does Universal Coverage Drive Immigration?
Combining immigration and healthcare leads to an uproar of opinions, with data often taking a backseat. In light of this we’re focusing on the results of a new study this week examining whether offering healthcare coverage affects rates...
Healthcare Triage
TANF, Cash Assistance, and How Work Requirements Effect Poverty Relief
Last week we talked about different ways to promote work in safety net programs: incentives or carrots, like the Earned Income Tax Credit and disincentives or sticks like work requirements. Policy makers have tried out work requirements...
Healthcare Triage
Medicaid has a Huge Return on Investment
Medicaid is expensive, and critics argue that it get people insured at the expense of the private sector. But study after study find that Medicaid has a huge return on investment for state and federal government.
Healthcare Triage
King V. Burwell, Obamacare, and the Supreme Court
There's another case concerning the Affordable Care Act that's hitting the Supreme Court, and it's a big deal. It has the potential to strip subsidies that help buy health insurance from millions of people across the country. The case is...
Healthcare Triage
Trump, Congress, and the Plan for Block Grants and Medicaid
How Would Republican Plans for Medicaid Block Grants Actually Work? That's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.
Healthcare Triage
The Healthcare System of the United States
We've been getting a lot of requests to talk about the health care systems of different countries. It's really hard to compress the complexities of each into an episode, but we're going to try. First up is the United States. Others will...
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Rally Against Obamacare
Rally Against Obamacare at US Capitol Building on March 24, 2012 in Washington, DC (Footage by Getty Images)
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Protesters Rally Against Obamacare
Protesters Rally Against Obamacare at US Capitol Building on March 24, 2012 in Washington, DC (Footage by Getty Images)