The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso

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HHS's Failure to Decarbonize the US Healthcare Industry (Part 2)
11/07/2026 | 39 min
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 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.
Comments are of course welcomed.

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HHS's Failure to Decarbonize the US Healthcare Industry (350th Podcast)
29/06/2026 | 18 min
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.
Comments are of course welcomed.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
HHS's Failure to Decarbonize the Healthcare Industry (350th Podcast)
29/06/2026 | 18 min
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 Decarbonize Healthcare.”
Comments are of course welcomed.
Thank you.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
Ms. Jessica Forden Discusses Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci's Recently-Published Book, "Work, Retire, Repeat, The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"
06/06/2026 | 41 min
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 sick, no one knows their health status tomorrow, approximately 85% of Medicare beneficiaries have at least one chronic condition and life expectancy at birth is approximately 79 years. Medicare does not provide long term care, Social Security replaces just 43% of the average workers’ wages and only approximately 40% of retirees receive income from some form of employer or personal retirement plan.
With me to discuss Prof. Ghilarducci’s book is her colleague Ms. Jessica Forden an economics Ph.D. candidate at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
Information on Prof. Teresa Ghilarducci’s book is at: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo212888995.html.
The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy (SCEPA) research publications are at: https://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/research.
Jessica Forden’s LinkedIn page is at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-forden-88b265131/.

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Tufts Professor William Masters Discusses Food Affordability and Food Production Stability in the Age of Climate Denial
12/05/2026 | 40 min
To state the obvious nutrition is considered the cornerstone of public health, a, if not the, primary preventative measure against chronic disease. Nevertheless, the OBBBA cut SNAP funding by an estimated $187 billion; since the start of the pandemic food prices have increased by roughly 30%; and, going forward are at risk due to uncertain trade policy, global shocks including the ongoing war in Iran, water supply/access and widespread drought and other climate-related issues include the looming super El Nino event that is expected to disrupt planting cycles worldwide and breach thermal safety margins - causing most major crops to suffer further yield declines. Add to all this the questionable science behind the MAHA movement.
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy information is at: https://nutrition.tufts.edu/
Prof Masters’ bio is at: https://as.tufts.edu/economics/people/faculty/william-masters

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Podcast interviews with health policy experts on timely subjects. The Healthcare Policy Podcast website features audio interviews with healthcare policy experts on timely topics. An online public forum routinely presenting expert healthcare policy analysis and comment is lacking. While other healthcare policy website programming exists, these typically present vested interest viewpoints or do not combine informed policy analysis with political insight or acumen. Since healthcare policy issues are typically complex, clear, reasoned, dispassionate discussion is required. These podcasts will attempt to fill this void. Among other topics this podcast will address: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act Other federal Medicare and state Medicaid health care issues Federal health care regulatory oversight, moreover CMS and the FDA Healthcare research Private sector healthcare delivery reforms including access, reimbursement and quality issues Public health issues including the social determinants of health Listeners are welcomed to share their program comments and suggest programming ideas. Comments made by the interviewees are strictly their own and do not represent those of their affiliated organization/s. www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

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