The Healthcare Policy Podcast ®  Produced by David Introcaso
The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso
HHS's Failure to Decarbonize the US Healthcare Industry (350th Podcast)
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HHS's Failure to Decarbonize the US Healthcare Industry (350th Podcast)

In January 2021 the White House opened an unprecedented policy window effectively permitting HHS to decarbonize healthcare. HHS promptly closed the window two years later.

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 Decarbonize the US healthcare Industry.” That the window formally closed in January 2025 means healthcare will not approach reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in 2030. HHS will continue to intentionally fund the industry’s harm-treat-harm business model meaning healthcare is by design traumatic. Iatrogenesis is built-in. Americans will become increasingly consumed by, not consumers of, healthcare.

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