The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso

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 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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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 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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Prof. Troy Brennan Discusses His Just-Published, "Wonderful and Broken, The Complex Reality of Primary Care in the US"

Though primary care's (PC) value is indisputable, PC delivery largely remains a promise. Prof. Brennan's work discusses how we can fix what's wrong with…

Nov 6 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

40:53

October 2025

Dr. Sachin Jain Discusses Ethical Erosion in Healthcare

Why has ethics or a focus on normative ethics been largely lost in healthcare?

Oct 22 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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Drs. Michael Liu and Rishi Wadhera Discuss CMS's WISeR Medicare Demonstration

Beginning this January 1 HHS will begin paying non-medical, AI companies for denying a "prior authorization" medical claims determined to have little to…

Oct 18 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

37:48

Mr. Michael Millenson Discusses the (Tragic) State of Patient Safety

Over twenty-five years after the patient safety movement (more) formally launched, still 25% of Medicare beneficiaries suffer a preventable hospital…

Oct 16 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

40:37

Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths

Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost…

Oct 7 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

36:57

September 2025

Devin Kellis Argues for Extinction Medicine as a Medical Specialty

With the sixth mass extinction upon us, Devin Kellis, in his recent AMA J. of Ethics article, argues medicine should develop related expertise to help…

Sep 2 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

46:30

August 2025

The Sabin Climate Law Center's Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre Discusses the ICJ's Recent Climate Advisory Opinion

The UN International Court of Justice effectively rules US Healthcare is accountable and legally liable for its GHG emissions.

Aug 20 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

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July 2025

Stanford's Mark Jacobson Discusses the Likely Climate Effects of the OBBBA & the Current Status of Renewable Energy Development

The Republican mega-bill eliminates virtually all green energy subsidies while enhancing fossil fuel subsidies that will leave Americans with far more…

Jul 17 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

28:08

The Institute for New Economic Thinking's Thomas Ferguson Discusses Congressional Realities That Explain Passage of the "One Big Beautiful…

The OBBBA (re)confirms the death of regular order in the Congress.

Jul 12 • David Introcaso, Ph.D.

52:52