The Hunt for Lasting Fixes to America’s Medical Debt Crisis

A major new study throws cold water on a popular approach to relieving medical debt, but leading experts say the research also reveals a promising path forward.
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Episode Guests:
Henry Harrell, MD, Physician
Neale Mahoney, PhD, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Allison Sesso, President and CEO, Undue Medical Debt
Tradeoffs’ coverage of health care costs is supported, in part by Arnold Ventures and West Health.
About Tradeoffs:
Founded in 2019 by former Senior Health Care Reporter at Marketplace, Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs is an award winning nonprofit media company on a mission to help the folks on Main Street, Wall Street and Capitol Hill have smarter, more honest conversations about health policy. We produce podcast episodes, articles, newsletters and live events that combine data and evidence and storytelling to help health care decision-makers better understand the complicated, costly and often counterintuitive world of health care. The Tradeoffs audience is made up of important decision-makers in health policy, and our work has been listened to more than 4 million times and is taught in more than 55 colleges and universities.

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