Tradeoffs

North Carolina’s former health secretary explains the heavy lift and hard choices ahead of states as they rush to put Republicans' new health reforms in place. Guest: Kody Kinsley [https://www.commonwealthfund.org/person/kody-kinsley], Senior Policy Advisor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; former North Carolina secretary of health and human services Learn more and read a full transcript on our website [https://tradeoffs.org/2025/07/10/big-beautiful-bill-becomes-law-states-daunting-rollout]. Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter [https://tradeoffs.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&id=89c5edcb93&utm_source=twitter-newsletter-signup&utm_medium=twitter] featuring the latest health policy research and news. Support this type of journalism today, with a gift [https://tradeoffs.org/donate]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Health law expert Katie Keith helps us break down what a pair of big court decisions mean for RFK Jr.’s power and for people's access to abortion, cancer screening and many other kinds of care. Guest: Katie Keith [https://chir.georgetown.edu/faculty_katie_keith/], Director, Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Learn more and read a full transcript on our website [https://tradeoffs.org/2025/07/03/supreme-court-aca-planned-parenthood-medina-braidwood-preventive-care]. Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter [https://tradeoffs.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&id=89c5edcb93&utm_source=twitter-newsletter-signup&utm_medium=twitter] featuring the latest health policy research and news. Support this type of journalism today, with a gift [https://tradeoffs.org/donate]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

On June 18, Tradeoffs moderated an online event with economists and doctors examining why this legislation could cost so many people their health coverage — or even their lives. Guests: Eric Roberts [https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/eric-t-roberts-phd/], Associate Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine Aditi Vasan [https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/aditi-vasan-md-mshp/], Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine Rachel Werner [https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/rachel-m-werner-md-phd/], Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania Learn more and read a full transcript on our website [https://tradeoffs.org/2025/06/26/unpacking-health-impacts-republicans-big-beautiful-bill]. Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter [https://tradeoffs.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&id=89c5edcb93&utm_source=twitter-newsletter-signup&utm_medium=twitter] featuring the latest health policy research and news. Support this type of journalism today, with a gift [https://tradeoffs.org/donate]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The White House is asking Congress to sharply roll back federal spending on HIV prevention, a reversal from President Trump’s first term, when he championed investment to end the epidemic in America within a decade. Guests: Hana Fields [https://hopetesting.org/about/team/hana/], outreach manager, Health Outreach Prevention Education  Dr. Patrick Sullivan [https://sph.emory.edu/profile/faculty/patrick-sullivan], professor of epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health Brad Sullivan  Jeremiah Johnson [https://prep4all.org/our-team/], executive director, PrEP4All Dr. John T. Brooks [https://cfar.ucsf.edu/people/john-brooks#:~:text=John%20T.,and%20treatment%20of%20HIV%20infection.], former chief medical officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Dr. Brett P. Giroir [https://www.onconano.com/brett-p-giroir-md], former assistant secretary for health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Learn more and read a full transcript on our website [https://tradeoffs.org/2025/06/19/trumps-policies-could-undermine-fight-end-americas-hiv-epidemic/]. Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter [https://tradeoffs.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&id=89c5edcb93&utm_source=twitter-newsletter-signup&utm_medium=twitter] featuring the latest health policy research and news. Support this type of journalism today, with a gift [https://tradeoffs.org/donate]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Health and Human Services chief’s latest action on vaccinations is unprecedented, and quickly drew condemnation from medical groups who said his dismissal of the vaccine advisory committee put public health at risk. Here’s why the members of that committee are so important. Guest: Ron Balajadia, Hawaii Department of Health immunization branch chief Dorit Reiss [https://www.uclawsf.edu/people/dorit-reiss/], University of California, San Francisco, professor of public health law  Dr. Sarah Long, former member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and Drexel University, professor of pediatric infectious disease Dr. Paul Offit, [https://www.chop.edu/doctors/offit-paul-a] director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Richard Hughes IV, [https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hauthor20190318.923922/full/] attorney with Epstein Becker Green  Per Fischer, [https://minervax.com/about/management-team/] CEO, MinervaX Learn more and read a full transcript on our website [https://tradeoffs.org/2025/06/12/rfk-jr-just-replaced-experts-guiding-vaccines-now-what]. Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter [https://tradeoffs.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&id=89c5edcb93&utm_source=twitter-newsletter-signup&utm_medium=twitter] featuring the latest health policy research and news. Support this type of journalism today, with a gift [https://tradeoffs.org/donate]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.