For years Larry Moore struggled with addiction, living on the streets of Camden, New Jersey and cycling in and out of the emergency room. Then he was intercepted by the Camden Coalition – he got the care and support he needed to get back on his feet and today he's sober living in his own apartment.
But the Coalition, hospitals and health insurers across the country are all struggling to repeat success stories like Larry's.
Learn more: https://tradeoffs.org/2024/04/25/complex-care-camden-coalition-social-determinants/
President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to tap Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has raised alarms given some of his divisive views.
Kennedy — who initially ran for president as a Democrat in the primary and an Independent in the general election before dropping out and endorsing Trump — is perhaps best known for his vaccine skepticism and for spreading misinformation about the safety of vaccines. He’s also a fierce critic of the pharmaceutical industry, processed foods and water fluoridation.
Kennedy has never worked in health care or the federal government, but he’s become outspoken on a wide range of health care issues that have now coalesced under the banner of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. He has said he wants to fire hundreds of career staffers at the Food and Drug Administration and at the National Institutes of Health, and shift federal research funding from infectious disease to chronic disease and obesity.
If confirmed, Kennedy would be in charge of a $1.7 trillion agency with power over regulating food and drugs, funding groundbreaking research and setting vaccine recommendations. He would also oversee Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which account for nearly 90% of the department’s budget and provide health insurance to nearly 170 million Americans.
As senators prepare to vote on Kennedy’s nomination, we talked with former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talked about the power of the position, and the checks and balances Kennedy may face in enacting some of his priorities.
Read more at tradeoffs.org.
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9 out of every 10 prescriptions in the U.S. are filled with much cheaper copies of brand-name drugs.
They save us hundreds of billions of dollars a year, but will affordable, high-quality generic drugs continue to be there when we need them?
Introducing 'Race to the Bottom,' our new three-part series on the problems plaguing the generic drugs that we all rely on — and how we could fix them. Learn more: tradeoffs.org/racetothebottom
Meet the Director Behind the Fifth Branch of Public Safety in Durham, NC #podcast #thefifthbranch
In 2021, Ryan Smith was tasked with developing a new agency to figure out how to better respond to 911 calls from people in a mental health crisis. His solution? The Holistic Empathetic Assistance Response Team aka HEART. Today in Durham, NC, when someone calls 911 in a mental health crisis, HEART sends a team of clinicians and social workers instead of just the police.
Hear more from Ryan Smith in The Fifth Branch, a new podcast series from Tradeoffs and The Marshall Project: https://tradeoffs.org/thefifthbranch/
Introducing The Fifth Branch - A New Podcast Series from @tradeoffspod and @marshallproj.
Your house is on fire; the fire department responds. You are sick; EMS gets dispatched. Shots are fired, and law enforcement comes.
But people call 911 for a lot of other reasons.
For calls about mental illness, addiction, or suicidal thoughts, who responds to those?
The Fifth Branch, a new special series examines what it looks like when one community dramatically changes how it responds to people in crisis - and what it means for the communities they serve.
Subscribe to The Fifth Branch wherever you get podcasts and tune in now to listen to this first episode now.
This week on the podcast Dan Gorenstein & Ateev Mehrotra weigh the pros and cons of telehealth #healthcare #podcasting #telehealth
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SCOTUS Hearing Opens Doors For Policy Discussion #healthpolicy #podcast
Last week's Supreme Court hearing about the Grants Pass v Johnson case opened doors for more discussion of policy challenges and solutions. Now more than ever, local, state and federal agencies need to be looking to each other for solutions to policy issues like homelessness and strengthening health care for vulnerable people.
Follow for more news about some of the country’s most debated health policies.
Larry Moore Defied the Odds – Orgs Work to Repeat his Success
For years Larry Moore struggled with addiction, living on the streets of Camden, New Jersey and cycling in and out of the emergency room. Then he was intercepted by the Camden Coalition – he got the care and support he needed to get back on his feet and today he's sober living in his own apartment.
But the Coalition, hospitals and health insurers across the country are all struggling to repeat success stories like Larry's.
Learn more: https://tradeoffs.org/2024/04/25/complex-care-camden-coalition-social-determinants/
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 getting in the way.
This week, we get an inside look at one doctor’s quest to improve health care for people with conditions like Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism.
Learn more about Kevin's story: https://tradeoffs.org/2024/03/21/olmstead-intellectual-developmental-disability/
Journalism that explores the complicated, costly, and often counterintuitive world of health care. New podcast episodes every Thursday.
