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Journalism that explores the complicated, costly, and often counterintuitive world of health care.
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@tradeoffs.orgIn the second episode of our special series on medical debt with @kffhealthnews.org, we explore lessons from Oregon’s aggressive legislation to push hospitals to prevent patients from falling into medical debt.
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@tradeoffs.orgHospitals 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.org.
@tradeoffs.org"Hidden Help" is a new investigative series from Tradeoffs and @kffhealthnews.org 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:
@tradeoffs.orgTradeoffs and @pennldi.bsky.social 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.
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@tradeoffs.org911 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.orgJoin us and @pennldi.bsky.social 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.
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@tradeoffs.orgThe Trump administration says states aren’t doing enough to combat Medicaid fraud. States face demands for more data, frozen Medicaid payments and cuts to anti-fraud funding.
What are the opportunities, challenges and tradeoffs?
Join us + @pennldi.bsky.social on 9/17: tradeoffs.org/event/decodi...
@tradeoffs.orgCash-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.
@tradeoffs.orgIn a live conversation recorded at Aspen Ideas: 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 to the Tradeoffs episode: tradeoffs.org/2026/09/03/b...
@tradeoffs.orgListen 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.
