The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso

Dr. Phillip Alvelda and Professor Thomas Ferguson Discuss Their Response to the Senate Finance Committee Democrats’ Recent RFI to Reform US Healthcare

On July 30 Senate Finance Committee Democrats issued an 86-page Request for Information (RFI) titled, “Health Coverage That Works for Everyone.” As Ranking Democratic Mem

John McDonough Discusses His Just-Published Book, “America’s Wrong Turn, US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era” (350th Interview)

Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s (think, e.g., Hayek, Friedman, Reagan, Stockman and Clinton), US policymakers decided healthcare should be defined like any other commerc

Ken Terry Discusses His Just-Published Book, "Beyond Medicare for All: Cracking the Code of Healthcare Affordability"

With the Congress adjourned for summer recess and the mid-terms now 83 days away, August is a good time to discuss substantive or systematic HC reform. Listeners, and/or

Turquoise Health's Chief of Staff Ms. Carol Skenes Discusses Hospital Price Transparency

As everyone is well aware, healthcare, particularly acute care (think: hospitals) has become increasingly more unaffordable. For the four-year period ending next year ERI

Ms. Elena Mihaly Discusses Vermont's Climate Superfund Legislation

In May 2024, Vermont enacted entirely unprecedented legislation that attempts to mitigate climate-charged disaster events and associated financial fallout inflicted on Ve

HHS's Failure to Decarbonize the US Healthcare Industry (Part 2)

During this podcast I read part two of a draft, yet-to-be-published essay titled, “Institutional Betrayal: HHS and the National Academy of Medicine’s Failure to Decarboni

HHS's Failure to Decarbonize the US Healthcare Industry (350th Podcast)

During this podcast I read part one of a draft, yet-to-be-published essay titled, “Institutional Betrayal: HHS and the National Academy of Medicine’s Failure to Decarboni

HHS's Failure to Decarbonize the Healthcare Industry (350th Podcast)

This is the first of a two-part reading of a yet-to-be-published essay presently titled, “Institutional Failure: HHS and the National Academy of Medicine’s Failure to Dec

Ms. Jessica Forden Discusses Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci's Recently-Published Book, "Work, Retire, Repeat, The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"

Unlike most rich countries or advanced economies the US does not define healthcare, including long term care, as a universal social risk – despite the fact we all get sic

Tufts Professor William Masters Discusses Food Affordability and Food Production Stability in the Age of Climate Denial

To state the obvious nutrition is considered the cornerstone of public health, a, if not the, primary preventative measure against chronic disease. Nevertheless, the OBBB

Mr. Robert Andrews Discusses Self-Insured Employer Health Plan Efforts to Address Healthcare Affordability

Not surprisingly healthcare affordability has risen to the top or #1 mid-term election campaign issue. Largely due to pricing failure, that costs Americans about $250 b

Mike Meno Discusses the Recently-Introduced Senate "Stop Climate Shakedowns Act"

Per my May 2025 interview with Stanford’s Chris Callahan regarding his April 2025 “Nature” article titled, “Carbon Majors and the Scientific Case for Climate Liability,”

Dr. Adam Cunningham Discusses Medical Tourism

Listeners are all well aware US healthcare is increasingly unaffordable. Among other stats nearly 50% of Americas are either uninsured, at 8% or 27 million, or underinsur

Georgetown's Professor Katie Keith Unpacks HHS's Recent Proposed Affordable Care Act Rule

Over the past 12 years the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced the total number of uninsured Americans and low-income individuals more specifically by over 50% and by o

Professor Shannon Mussett Discusses Entropic Philosophy's Relevance to Our Health and Health Care

Podcast listeners are aware US healthcare, the largest industry in the world’s largest economy, consumes- and wastes a massive amount of carbon-based energy made painfull

Attorney Alissa Smith Discusses Delivering Healthcare in the Face of (ICE) Immigration Enforcement

Listeners may recall I interviewed Ms. Smith early last March because the Trump administration immediately abandoned a decades old policy that forbade immigration enforce

Resources for the Future Senior Fellow (and Former EPA Official) Dr. Bryan Hubbell Discusses the EPA's Assault on Clean Air

Over the past few weeks the Trump administration has significantly upped its game to eliminate greenhouse gas regulations that protect human and global health. The Sabin

Prof. John Abraham Discusses the Ongoing and Outrageous Rise in Ocean Heat Content

To begin my 14th year of podcasting, my 335th interview is with John Abraham, Professor of Thermal Science and Fluid Mechanics at the University of St. Thomas. Prof. Abra

Child Psychiatrist Frank Putnam Discusses His Soon-To-Be-Published book, "Old Before Their Time, A Scientific Life Investigating How Maltreatment Harms Children and the Adults They Become"

At least one in four girls suffers childhood sexual abuse. For example, the Department of Justice (DoJ) concluded Jeffery Epstein trafficked over 1,000 girls, some as you

Harvard Professor Eram Alam Discusses Her Just-Published Book, "The Care of Foreigners, How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare"

The US has effectively always suffered a physician shortage. Last year the AMA estimated a shortage of 86,000 by 2035. US policymakers have since 1965 addressed this prob