The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso

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

Ongoing food price inflation, SNAP cuts, increasing food insecurity, fertilizer shortages, persistent drought and extreme heat, etc, compromise the…

May 12 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

40:21

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

NJ-based Health Transformation Alliance, a member-owned cooperative, collectively bargains to improve price transparency and prevention, manage drug…

May 7 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

36:24

April 2026

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

Republicans continue their march to exempt fossil fuel companies from legal liability for their outsized climate crisis role.

Apr 30 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

33:29

Dr. Adam Cunningham Discusses Medical Tourism

Medical travel is a market consequence of US healthcare policy failure and international prices can be or will accelerate commercial and political…

Apr 7 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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41:37

March 2026

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

If finalized, the much anticipated & ambitious proposed 2027 ACA rule will constitute a major shift in ACA policy in part by reintroducing catastrophic…

Mar 7 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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39:36

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

"Working through entropics," Prof Musset states, "opens up a possible future of care and reverence for finite life."

Mar 3 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

40:54

February 2026

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

What do healthcare providers need to know and do since that they are caught between their duty to provide care and possibly obstructing federal…

Feb 21 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

27:46

January 2026

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

Dr. Hubbell discusses moreover EPA efforts to formally rescind the EPA's '09 Endangerment Finding and its most recent announcement to ignore human…

Jan 27 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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37:20

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

The unabated rise in ocean temperatures is the primary cause for the ever-increasing number and severity of catastrophic climate-related disasters.

Jan 13 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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38:02

December 2025

Child Psychiatrist Frank Putnam Discusses His Soon-To-Be-Published book, "Old Before Their Time, A Scientific Life Investigating How…

Beyond common, childhood sexual abuse can cause profound biological and psychological harm that prematurely ages the victim leading to premature death.

Dec 4, 2025 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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40:42

November 2025

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

Via a 1965 immigration reform used to combat Communism, FMEs allowed US medicine to max profits, ignore medical ed reform, create lasting HPSAs along…

Nov 25, 2025 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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34:31

Georgetown Professor Linda Blumberg Discusses Commercial Health Insurance "Middlemen"

CHIR is working to ID or map numerous rent seeking side hustles by TPAs, RCMs, reprices, IDR management companies and other middlemen that are…

Nov 18, 2025 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

43:09