Health Affairs This Week

Updated: 28 Mar 2025 • 206 episodes
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Health Affairs This Week places listeners at the center of health policy’s proverbial water cooler. Join editors from Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy research, and special guests as they discuss this week’s most pressing health policy news. All in 15 minutes or less.

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Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter. Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Seth Berkowitz of UNC School of Medicine back to the program to discuss nutrition in the US, the current state of SNAP benefits, and his upcoming paper to be featured in our April 2025 theme issue on food, nutrition, and h

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Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter. Welcome to a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and health. This special series compliments the release of a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health to be released April 7, 2025. In the first episode, Heal

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Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter. Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Deputy Editor Chris Fleming and Katie Keith of Georgetown Law to the program to discuss the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act and the first 50 days of the new Trump administration. Katie Keith is a frequent contr

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Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter. Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Brian Anderson, President & CEO of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), to the program to discuss the adoption of artificial intelligence technology in health care and the future application of these tools. Health Affairs i

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Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter. Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Rebecca Pifer of Healthcare Dive back to the program to discuss the 2025 budget resolution that passed the House on its way to the Senate, the current administration's health care agenda, and what ripple effects the curren

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Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter. Health Affairs' Jeff Byers invites Victor Dzau of the National Academy of Medicine to the program to discuss the 2025 Vital Directions paper package and what major takeaways could be found to inform the incoming administration for the future of health care.

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