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
111 episodes transcribedEarlier this week, President Biden declared the pandemic over. This tracks with public opinion: most Americans have long abandoned their masks, and fe...
Among other things, the Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed as a potential breakthrough in making health care more affordable. But what does this...
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 Dose will be taking a short summer break while our team works on brand-new episodes for the next season. Listen to our season finale, in which we...
A well-functioning public health system is vital to keeping individuals, and the population at large, safe and healthy. Except that success is often i...
Racial bias in medical care extends all the way to the prescription pad. Research shows that people of color are less likely to receive the most effec...
Nurses 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...
