Journalism that explores the complicated, costly, and often counterintuitive world of health care. New podcast episodes every Thursday, hosted by @dmgorenstein.
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Democrats scored huge margins in Congress and made big gains at the state level.
What does it mean for health policy in the final two years of the Trump administration and beyond? Tradeoffs spoke with @Katie_Keith about what could happen.
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City and state officials, health insurers and advocates are ramping up efforts to reach millions of low-income people at risk of losing their health insurance.
Listen to today’s Tradeoffs episode:
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Today, Tradeoffs is sharing an episode from our friends over at the podcast @armandalegshow that digs into one of this year’s biggest Medicare Advantage storylines: plans that cover millions of seniors are disappearing from the market.
Listen: tradeoffs.org/2026/10/22/med…
Today at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, @dmgorenstein will moderate a live virtual event about presumptive eligibility with @_melaevans, @KFFHealthNews senior correspondent @NoamLevey, and policymakers and hospital leaders in Oregon and Los Angeles.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
The Trump administration has tried repeatedly to upend health care research in the U.S.
But the quiet decimation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has many academics deeply concerned.
Listen to today's episode of Tradeoffs:
tradeoffs.org/2026/10/15/rei…
In the second episode of our special series on medical debt with @KFFHealthNews, we explore lessons from Oregon’s aggressive legislation to push hospitals to prevent patients from falling into medical debt.
Listen now: tradeoffs.org/2026/10/08/hid…
Getting financial assistance from hospitals often involves filling out cumbersome applications.
Some states now require hospitals to identify and automatically enroll patients eligible for charity care. We broke down how it works:
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Hospitals can automatically wipe out the cost of care for low-income patients.
A Tradeoffs analysis finds that hospitals in Texas could be doing more to protect people from unaffordable bills.
Part of our new Hidden Help series with @KFFHealthNews.
tradeoffs.org/2026/10/01/hid…
"Hidden Help" is a new investigative series from Tradeoffs and @KFFHealthNews about how hospitals can protect their patients from the life-altering harms of medical debt.
Read the first story to learn what presumptive eligibility is and how it works:
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Tradeoffs and @PennLDI co-hosted a conversation with three state Medicaid officials to push past the political talking points and understand the state perspective on all the anti-fraud energy coming out of Washington.
Listen to the special live episode: tradeoffs.org/2026/09/24/sta…
Join us and @PennLDI today from 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET as a bipartisan panel of state Medicaid leaders share their perspectives on how they handle fraud, and the opportunities and challenges of the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-fraud push.
Register: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
911 calls related to mental health are most likely to involve police use of force. A new book by Rebecca Neusteter offers a blueprint for a 911 redesign.
We spoke with her and a Texas sheriff who describes how he’s seen 911 fail his community. Listen:
tradeoffs.org/2026/09/17/911…
Giovannina Anthony has spent the last four years juggling her work as a gynecologist and abortion provider in Wyoming with the new task of suing state lawmakers to keep abortion legal.
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The Trump administration says states aren’t doing enough to combat Medicaid fraud.
Join us and @PennLDI on 9/17 to discuss challenges and tradeoffs of the administration’s aggressive anti-fraud push.
Register here: tradeoffs.org/event/decoding…
Cash-strapped states and struggling families are wrestling with the consequences of major reforms to the SNAP program passed as part of Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill.
Listen to today's episode of Tradeoffs to meet one man living with the consequences.
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In a live conversation recorded at @aspenideas: Health, executives from a hospital, insurer and pharmacy join a top Trump administration official and leading health economist to discuss how to collectively bring down health care costs.
Listen: tradeoffs.org/2026/09/03/bey…
Listen to a candid conversation between a professor and a Ph.D. candidate about potential funding cuts from the National Institutes of Health and their impact on the future of medical research.
tradeoffs.org/2025/03/13/cos…
Trump has nominated former health care executive Chris Klomp to help RFK Jr. get his health agenda back on track.
With senators set to consider the nomination, we're bringing back our conversation with @ddiamond, who profiled Klomp in March.
Listen: tradeoffs.org/2026/04/02/tru…
The Trump administration has made it so Medicaid dollars will no longer be able to be used for gender-affirming care for people 18 or younger.
We're re-airing our conversation with a transgender teenager from Alabama, and her dad Jeff, from last summer.
tradeoffs.org/2025/07/17/tru…
Physician and @NewYorker writer @DhruvKhullar says artificial intelligence is a powerful tool to get quicker and more accurate diagnoses. But it can also be dangerous.
Listen to the episode or read the transcript: tradeoffs.org/2025/10/30/sho…
