Tradeoffs
Reported stories explaining health-policy choices, their consequences and the evidence behind competing approaches.
- Host
- Dan Gorenstein
- Published by
- Tradeoffs
- Topic
- Health & Wellbeing
- Format
- Narrative / Story
- Orientation
- Systems Change
- Themes
- Community-Led, Just Transition
- Made for
- Professional / Practitioner, General Public, Policymaker / Public Sector
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1 Oct 2026 · 32 min
Hidden Help: A New Push for Hospitals to Prevent Medical Debt
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. See the full series at tradeoffs.org/hiddenhelp . Guests: Erin Fuse Brown, professor of health services, policy and practice, director of the health policy and law lab, Brown University Aimee Carlock, Grapevine, Texas, resident, patient Jill Horwitz , Trobman Innovation professor of law, professor of emergency medicine, Northwestern University Neale Mahoney , professor of economics, Trione Director of St
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30 Sept 2026 · 23 min
With Millions Expected to Lose Coverage, States Look for New Ways to Prevent Medical Debt
As millions of Americans are expected to lose health insurance coverage following federal cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, states are searching for new ways to prevent medical debt before it starts. In this episode of Tradeoffs, economist Neale Mahoney explains the research into strategies for relief from high healthcare costs and evaluates policy fixes to protect consumers. Guest: Neale Mahoney , professor of economics, Trione Director of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University. Learn more: Read the full reporting and explore additional resources on o
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24 Sept 2026 · 60 min
States Weigh In on Medicaid Fraud
A live conversation with a bipartisan group of state Medicaid leaders on the impact of the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-fraud push. Guests: Amir Bassiri , Medicaid Director, New York State Department of Health Paula Chatterjee , Director of Innovation, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine Drew Gonshorowski , Former Medicaid Director, State of Nebraska Kevin Lownds , Division Chief, Medicaid Fraud Division, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Learn more: Read the full reporting and explore additional resources on