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 transcribedMigrants 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...
Violence kills thousands of Americans each year and sends many more to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Even though many people recover ph...
Living with the COVID-19 pandemic for a year, it’s hard to process the numbers. What we know is that nearly 500,000 Americans have lost their lives, a...
Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. faces another health crisis – one of loneliness. Between lockdowns, social distancing, and the fear...
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States appears to have learned few lessons from its disastrous early response. Hasty lockdowns and bun...
COVID-19 brought the lives of college students to an abrupt standstill – being in a classroom, a dormitory, a dining hall table with friends became ri...
A new president doesn’t get four years to shape health care, he gets six months. And for President-elect Joe Biden, the most pressing health care issu...
President-elect Joe Biden says he is committed to strengthening the Affordable Care Act so that all Americans can get the health care they need. He al...
People who are incarcerated have complex health needs, and to make matters more complicated, prisons and jails have seen some of the worst COVID-19 ou...
Masks. Lockdowns. Shuttered businesses. Hospitals strained beyond capacity. Weary of the pandemic’s myriad disruptions to normal life, many Americans...
Americans are stressed about COVID-19 – both the disease and what it’s doing to the economy. And while the virus has touched every corner of the globe...
Health care is always important for voters, but this year, it is at the top of everyone's mind. The health needs and economic costs of COVID-19, and p...
Hospitals in the U.S. started preparing for COVID-19 as early as January, but it wasn’t until Italian doctors started tweeting in March that they had...
***Originally Aired Nov 2019*** Bias in medicine – based on race and sex – is a well-documented problem. It’s a problem because the health care syste...
***Originally Aired Feb 2020*** More than 800 women across the globe die each day from complications related to pregnancy. Some of them bleed to death...
***Originally Aired Oct 2019*** African American women die of pregnancy-related causes at three times the rate for white women, even after accounting...
