The Dose is the Commonwealth Fund’s podcast that presents fresh ideas, new perspectives, and compelling conversations about where health care is headed. Join host Joel Bervell this season for conversations with leading and emerging experts in health care and health policy. Get the Dose in your inbox: https://thedose.show/signup
104 episodes transcribedNurses in the United States are experiencing burnout at unprecedented rates. More than two years into the pandemic, they are still processing the trau...
When a federal judge lifted the national mask mandate on airplanes, trains, and other public transportation, some Americans broke out the champagne. O...
Access to health care is a constitutional right for the 2 million Americans in our criminal justice system. For some of those incarcerated – overwhelm...
In the face of overwhelming demand for behavioral health services, the unmet needs of one group stands out: Black and brown teenagers. One rea...
Although primary care is the lifeline of a health care system, the United States spends less on it, and more on specialty care, than other high-income...
Americans pay more for prescription drugs than people in other countries do. As medicines become increasingly unaffordable — particularly for people w...
Social programs like Medicaid are supposed to help people, but often they reproduce racial inequities — and sometimes actually create them. That’s bec...
Climate change can have a devastating impact on our health. When people are injured or exposed to disease related to floods or fires, it’s up to healt...
The Omicron variant is sweeping across the United States and the rest of the world, breaking previous records of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations....
A year after adults in the U.S. began getting vaccinated against COVID-19, children ages 5 and up are now eligible for the shot. So far, uptake has be...
The U.S. maternal health crisis has been well documented. Black Americans are three times as likely as white Americans to die from pregnancy-related c...
Vaccines have saved thousands of lives and are an incredible tool in the seemingly endless battle against the coronavirus. But even with COVID surging...
The U.S. housing crisis and health care are inextricably linked. Compared to the general population, people experiencing homelessness have higher rate...
When the pandemic hit last March, mental health care, which was typically delivered in face-to-face sessions, rapidly moved online. At a time when the...
While rich countries are doling out booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, many poor countries have vaccinated less than five percent of their populat...
Even as the Delta variant rages through the U.S., many Americans have not received a COVID-19 vaccine. The reasons are complex, but for Black and Lati...
The Dose is the Commonwealth Fund’s podcast that asks, What can the U.S. do differently when it comes to health care? Join host Shanoor Seervai every...
Many Americans have started to behave as if the pandemic is over, but large numbers of people remain unvaccinated. At the same time, other parts of th...
When the pandemic hit last March, the U.S. was still facing another major public health crisis —the opioid epidemic. Between COVID-19 lockdowns and ec...
Many of us can recall a time we felt nervous about seeing a doctor. Maybe it was because we were wary about how much the visit would cost, or what a d...
