Nora Kenworthy is a professor at the University of Washington Bothell, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why so often GoFundMe campaigns fail and why even the most successful fundraising efforts mask the inequities of a health system that’s too expensive for most Americans.
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Author and journalist Abigail Shrier joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why, even as more adolescents are receiving mental health care than ever before, the numbers for those suffering continues to rise.
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KFF Health News reporter Jordan Rau joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the pros and cons of long-term care insurance, what it covers and doesn’t, and why it won’t necessarily protect you from exhausting your savings.
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James Tabery, a professor at the University of Utah, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why precision medicines focused on gene technology benefit only the rich, while average citizens are left behind in this new model of curing disease.
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Dina Nayeri talks about how trust is codified in boardrooms, hospitals, the asylum process and elsewhere – and the relationship between trust and privilege.
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Stephen W. Thrasher, discusses why survival rates and public health resources reach some but not others.
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Theresa Brown, an author and registered nurse, discusses her frustrations while being on the other side of treatments and her worries that speaking up would alienate the very doctors trying to save her.
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Dr. John Abramson explains the financial interests that influence drug research and consumer release, and how that plays into America’s health care system.
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Dr. Ruth S. Shim joins us to discuss the lack of access to care for people of color and the links between structural racism and mental health.
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Theresa Brown is a nurse and author, and she joins us to talk about the nurses charged with healing despite a lack of support and how, even as the demand for care skyrockets, the nation faces a severe nursing shortage.
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Vivian Ho is James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics and director of the Center for Health and Biosciences at Rice University, and she joins us to talk about the knock-on effects of the pandemic, from possible health-care bankruptcies to staffing issues, that hospitals are bracing for after the storm.
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ProPublica reporter Lydia DePillis joins us to talk about how we’ve been shut-out of the production of one of the most important components of our modern world — and how that’s currently impacting healthcare.
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