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 transcribedGetting and staying healthy depends on more than just medical care. In some instances, a patient also needs legal services. What if doctors could “ref...
Earlier this week, Germany became one of the first countries to start easing COVID-19 restrictions. That’s because its initial response to the pandemi...
The coronavirus pandemic is impacting everyone, but the older you are, the more severe the health consequences. The recommendation is stay home, away...
The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking unprecedented havoc around the globe. So many of us are searching for information to keep ourselves and our loved...
Ten years ago, it took a monumental effort to pass the ACA, or Obamacare. As a result, today, no American is denied health insurance because of a pre-...
Fear of a coronavirus epidemic is rippling through the country faster than the disease is spreading – and the U.S. health care system may be unprepare...
Nearly 700,000 Americans have died of AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s, and more than 1.1 million are living with HIV today. Adva...
More than 800 women die each day from complications related to pregnancy across the globe. Some of them bleed to death. Some of them develop infection...
Prescription medicines have become so expensive in the United States that we've reached a point where four in five Americans think drug prices are unr...
Primary care is the bedrock of a health care system that works. For most people, seeing a doctor regularly can help prevent small medical concerns fro...
A cesarean section can be a life-saving procedure for a woman with a complicated pregnancy – but in some countries, too many women deliver by c-sectio...
Health care was front and center for the American public in 2019 – and with good reason. It’s one of the top issues voters are worried about going int...
The number of women who die in the U.S. because of complications related to pregnancy is shockingly high – nearly 30 deaths for every 100,000 births e...
Bias in medicine –based on race and sex – is a well-documented problem. It’s a problem because the health care system has historically marginalized th...
Many Americans are worried about how they will afford care if they get really sick, and policymakers are responding to this concern with a whole range...
African American women die of pregnancy-related causes at three times the rate for white women, even after accounting for income, education, and acces...
Each day, Philadelphia’s fire department responds to nearly a thousand emergencies, whether it’s saving someone from opioid overdose or helping a pers...
Sickle cell disease is a life-threatening blood disorder that affects around 100,000 Americans, mostly African Americans. In addition to coping with t...
Many poor Americans get health coverage through Medicaid. Last year, with encouragement from the Trump administration, some states decided to try and...
