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
99 episodes transcribedAmericans 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...
Migrants are crossing the southern border in record numbers this year, many of them unaccompanied children. What happens to them once they make it int...
The Biden-Harris administration has taken several measures in its first three months to strengthen the nation’s social safety net. Many of these polic...
Hate crimes against Asians in the United States more than doubled from 2019 to 2020. Last month, in one of the most conspicuous acts of violence again...
If you’re an optimist, then every piece of good news about vaccine approvals and shots in arms has put the end of the pandemic in sight. If you’re a p...
Health care workers are among the heroes of the pandemic. One year in, many of us are experiencing stress, fatigue, and grief. But this can pale in co...
