Dan Gorenstein

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Recent Pieces from Dan Gorenstein

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Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess (17:20)
From: Tradeoffs

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
Caption: Kevin Carlson ringside at Monday Night Raw., Credit: Tradeoffs/Leslie Waker

One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities (27:55)
From: Tradeoffs

As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospitals and insurers are ...
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Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together? (19:17)
From: Tradeoffs

A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the country’s sickest, poorest patients?
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How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire (15:44)
From: Tradeoffs

With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could wind up being worse for ...
Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family

‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’ (21:12)
From: Tradeoffs

A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we talk with journalist Steven ...
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Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools (18:02)
From: Tradeoffs

Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?
Caption: Tradeoffs host Dan Gorenstein, ONC Director Micky Tripathi and Oracle Health Government Services Chief Health Officer James Ellzy onstage in Washington, D.C., at the ONC Annual Meeting on Dec. 15, 2023.

Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI (24:19)
From: Tradeoffs

A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbating racial bias in health care.
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5 ways America's Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024 (18:49)
From: Tradeoffs

Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way health care’s delivered in ...
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Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment? (23:50)
From: Tradeoffs

Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
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More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On (22:59)
From: Tradeoffs

One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals have adopted practices that ...