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Conversations on Health Care
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Conversations on Health Care is a project of the Moses/Weitzman Media Group and part of the first health system dedicated to the primary care for underserved populations. The show brings together top thought leaders in public health, health policy and innovation. Each episode offers an depth conversations and global perspectives on current trending topics.
Episodes
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MAHA & the Midterms: Insights From Axios Health Reporter Caitlin Owens
We’re counting down to the midterm election results on Nov. 3 and Make America Healthy Again supporters are weighing their choices. The movement gained attention about two years ago for what advocates saw as a need for healthier food, a cleaner environment and a “safer” vaccine schedule. They...
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One of Our Most Heated Programs: Medicare for All’s Pros & Cons
We’re proud to serve as a forum for big health care policy discussions and the latest one may be the most heated ever. Our guests debate the pros and cons of Medicare for All, which would be a single-payer national health program that would fully cover medical care for all Americans (and make…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Julie Rovner, KFF Health News & Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill
What’s worrying voters? Health costs are tied with gas prices for the most important affordability issue, according to a new KFF Health poll. The research found that voters trust Democrats over Republicans to deal with health care costs by a nearly two-to-one margin. This is the backdrop for our...
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Psychedelics: Can They Help Treat PTSD? Researcher Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D. Explains
The environment for the use of psychedelics in psychotherapy is moving quickly. In mid-September, the Food & Drug Administration held a hearing about potential future therapeutic use of psychedelics in supervised and supportive settings. Psychedelic psychotherapy combines mind-altering substances...
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Community Health Center Legends Richard Bohrer & James W. Hunt, Jr.: Lessons for Today
This week is the 17th anniversary of our first “Conversations on Health Care” and our guests have been part of the community health center movement before we even started our interviews. They have the battle scars that prove they know how to fight and win on behalf of community health centers.…
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High Cost of Losing Weight With GLP-1s: Researcher Kosali Simon, Ph.D., Explains
The common speculation has been that GLP-1s would ultimately save patients and the entire health care system millions of dollars by reducing waistlines and the associated costs with obesity. But research found that during the first year, patients accumulated about $6,500 in GLP-1 spending, while...
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Dr. Reed Tuckson: Health’s Truth Evangelist on MMR, COVID & Flu Vaccines
“I’m quite frankly, flabbergasted…” That’s the reaction of Dr. Reed Tuckson to the White House’s recent decision on childhood vaccines. An Executive Order has called for separating the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots and giving all childhood...
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Here Comes the Sun — And Is Too Much Exposure a Worry?
As we get ready to enjoy the Labor Day weekend, author Rowan Jacobsen is taking on dermatologists and the skin care industry. He explains that doctors have long told us to avoid sun exposure, in order to reduce rates of skin cancer. Yet the research indicates that moderate sun exposure leads to...
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Countdown to Crisis? The Looming Community Health Center Budget Threats
We’re about four months away from the beginning of the new federal Medicaid rules on Jan. 1 (although some states are allowed to implement them earlier). Earlier, we heard from an Administration leader on efforts to support states with getting the paperwork in order. Now, we have a guest…
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Who Are the Health Influencers Influencing? New Research Explains
Some people are turning to TikTok and Instagram before seeing or even going to health care providers. Who are these online influencers and who is looking at their content? Pew Research Center identified 6,828 individuals with at least 100,000 followers on YouTube, TikTok or Instagram that…
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How Health Care Makes the Climate-Health Connection
This past July was the warmest month on record across the contiguous United States. That’s giving Dr. Lisa Patel and her colleagues even more urgency in their climate change awareness work. Dr. Patel is the executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, which is…
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How Dr. Céline Gounder Reports the Stories Shaping Our Health
When there’s a breaking health story, millions of people turn to CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Céline Gounder for her insights. Now, we’re learning about Dr. Gounder’s unique story, which includes co-founding International Health Group, which connects health care providers with opportunities...
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We Have to Fight Back’: Bush NIH Dir Dr. Zerhouni on Challengers
Dr. Elias Zerhouni, who used to lead the National Institutes of Health, has tough words for those trying to change some of its processes. He’s not in favor of a proposed rule that would switch who decides which federal grants get funded. “What’s the intent here? What’s the good that will come out...
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Which U.S. Senator in His Early 20s Helped Save a Community Health Center?
Right now, the Moses/Weitzman Health System is focused on transforming primary care delivery nationally for the people who need it most. But it all started over 50 years ago with Community Health Center, Inc. in Connecticut, and three young men who dreamed of making health care “a right, not a...
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Can AI Find Medicaid Fraud? That’s the Mission of Stephanie Carlton, Dep. Admin, CMS
$100 billion. It’s a huge number but that’s the total amount the Trump Administration believes it can find in fraud across Medicaid and Medicare by 2029. The person helping lead that initiative is Stephanie Carlton, the deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She’s...
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Insights & Inspiration: Building the Community Health Center’s Next Chapter
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it’s important to highlight what makes the country unique. Here’s an example: A group of concerned people set out over 50 years ago to build the community health center movement. Matt Vinikas is among the pioneers who poured his intellect and passion into...
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America’s Health Story: 250 Years of Innovation
As we celebrate America’s birthday, we should recognize that the founders also revolutionized public health when they formed the United States. What influenced their thinking and how do these actions still affect health care today? Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter explore these questions...
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HIV Funding in Jeopardy: What’s at Stake
“What is at stake is whether people stay alive, stay in care, stay on medications, stay virally suppressed…these cuts will reverse all the progress we’ve made to date toward ending the HIV epidemic.” That’s the eye-opening view from Dr. Marwan Haddad as he assesses potential multi-million-dollar...
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GLP-1 Therapies: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going
When we first featured a guest discussing GLP-1 therapies, the public’s understanding of these drugs to treat obesity was still developing. In 2023, our expert was Dr. Jamy Ard, the then-incoming president of The Obesity Society. Even then, Dr. Ard was stressing that more choices would lower…
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How a Bill on Capitol Hill Spurred a Health Revolution
Guess what all the following have in common? They are all now available and widely used because of an important step lawmakers in Washington took over 45 years ago. Co-host Margaret Flinter says, “This is the biggest legislative success story that we’ve never heard of.” Join her and co-host Mark...
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Red, White & You: Your Health & How America’s Founding Made It Better
In one month, we’ll celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. But among the fireworks and festivities, a serious point may get overlooked: The founders also revolutionized public health when they formed the United States. What influenced their thinking and how do these actions still...
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‘Fur’ Our Health: New Pet-Human Bond Research
Researchers are “fetching” new discoveries about the incredible benefits pets and animals provide for human health. Steven Feldman, a proud feline father, is at the center of these efforts as the president of the Human Animal Bond Research Institute. “Most people probably have a feeling that…
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Hot Dogs, Jello, Waffle House: Time to Rethink ‘Bad’ Foods?
Right before many of us get ready for a long weekend of hot dogs and potato chips, two health public policy experts are shaking up what we think we know about food. Study after study has found that ultra-processed foods are linked to “heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, depression, anxiety,...
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How a West Virginia Community Health Center Leader Inspires the Country
For more than five decades, Craig Robinson has helped shape the future of community health in West Virginia and beyond. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk with the longtime executive director of Cabin Creek Health Systems to reflect on a career spent expanding access to care in rural...
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What Fmr. President Obama Told Our Guests About His Big Health Care Misstep
The authors of a new book reveal that former President Obama told them that he had an “inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story…” and explained how it hurt him as he tried to pass the Affordable Care Act. This insight and others are at the core of Dr. David […] The post…
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The Nurse at the Laundromat: An Innovative Model
A nurse in a Baltimore laundromat might be testing one of the most important ideas in American health care: what if care started before you ever needed the emergency room? Organizations from NPR to the Milbank Memorial Fund are closely watching the Neighborhood Nursing program that the top-ranked...
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Kathleen Sebelius Ran HHS. Now, She’s Tackling Rural Health
Kathleen Sebelius was in charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services when the Affordable Care Act became law. Now, she and a bipartisan group are putting their best thinking forward for how to fix rural health care. Their report from Aspen Institute’s Health Strategy Group calls…
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Why CNBC’s Becky Quick is Bullish on Rare Disease Cures: Her Family’s Story
Many viewers know Becky Quick as the steady voice on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” where she explains what’s happening on Wall Street and interviews the world’s top business leaders. Now, she joins Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter to share a very different story, one she lived privately for years while...
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Why is a Health Innovator Growing Fresh Veggies Year-Round? Mark Masselli’s Next Big Vision
Medical experts know that fresh vegetables play a very beneficial role in health but if you can’t afford them, you’re mostly out of luck. Fixing this situation is the latest passion of Mark Masselli, co-host of “Conversations on Health Care” and president, CEO, and founder of Moses/Weitzman…
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The New Yorker’s Dr. Khullar: Restoring Trust in CDC Could Take “Decades”
Over 1 million subscribers (and more online) read Dr. Dhruv Khullar’s insightful columns in The New Yorker and now our hosts are asking him the tough questions. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter ask him about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They note that just 8% of the public…
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Mobile Health Care Works, Why Don’t We See More of It? Answers & Opportunities
There are nearly 4,000 mobile healthcare clinics in the U.S. and there’s no reason to stop at that number, according to Driving Health Forward. It’s a new and fast-growing national campaign of organizations and individuals dedicated to promoting healthcare system change to grow the mobile...
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Your Role in Truth Initiative’s New Vape Battle
Nearly 70% of young people say they want to quit nicotine this year. But as the market rapidly evolves, quitting is becoming more complicated. Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Kathy Crosby, President and CEO of the Truth Initiative, about a growing disconnect between regulation...
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Reefer Madness? Ex-Drug Czar Sounds Alarm on Marijuana Legalization
There are 24 states that have legalized recreational marijuana in recent years and a man who once was at the center of the nation’s drug control efforts says he’s “really disturbed” at what he’s seeing as a result. “The health impacts on [people]…the increasing psychosis…the visits to emergency...
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Reporters’ Roundtable: High Cost of Health Care
Americans have more economic anxiety about health care costs than anything else, according to a KFF poll. “Conversations on Health Care” hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter are at the Reporters’ Roundtable to break down the policy debates and real-world impacts behind those concerns. Joining...
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Alzheimer’s: New Research on When Symptoms Start & Prevention
Research just out shows new blood tests can now detect Alzheimer’s-related changes years before symptoms begin. Dr. Suzanne Schindler says these findings help estimate how long that window may be. Once Alzheimer’s-related changes begin to rise in the blood, “it creates kind of a clock for us,”...
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Long COVID Latest: What are the Unique Patterns?
Six years after the pandemic began, millions are still living with Long COVID. New research shows why recovery looks so different from person to person. Dr. Bruce Levy and Tanayott Thaweethai, Ph.D., of Mass General Brigham, speak with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter about their National...
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Rural Health Transformation Program: Latest Details
A total of $10 billion of federal dollars is flowing to states right now as they seek to implement the first year of the new Rural Health Transformation Program. The early reports from the National Rural Health Association show promise and concerns. Carrie Cochran-McClain, NRHA’s Chief Policy...
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3D Models to Guide Surgery: Not Science Fiction
One of the first steps in creating your “digital twin” is already taking place at innovative medical centers across the U.S. Boston Children’s Hospital and 20 other centers like it are using 3D cardiac models to improve pediatric heart surgery and help families better understand their child’s…
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Dr. Zeke Emanuel: Tough Talk on Living Longer
Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a renowned bioethicist who helped draft the Affordable Care Act, is turning his attention to a new goal: helping us live longer. His new best-selling book is “Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life.” He believes some of the recent federal changes to the...
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Is Parkinson’s Preventable? Our Guest Says Yes
Join “Conversations on Health Care” hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter to learn why Dr. Dorsey believes cleaning up our environment may be one of the most powerful public health tools we have right now. The post Is Parkinson’s Preventable? Our Guest Says Yes appeared first on Healthy...
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2026 Health Care Predictions: Do You Agree?
We’ve invited noted health care leader Dr. Sachin Jain back to “Conversations on Health Care” to share his predictions for the year after many came true last year. 👉 Click the interview to get his take on: Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter also examine why his many fears about DOGE didn’t...
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KFF Health News Covers $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation: Latest Details
The new Rural Health Transformation Program aims to improve “healthcare access, quality, and outcomes” with $50 billion aimed at making changes to the healthcare delivery ecosystem. Keeping an eye on the state applications, the federal money awarded and how it will be used is Sarah Jane Tribble,...
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Happy, Healthy New Year: What the Future Holds
New research. New technology. New possibilities. On this special 2025 Rewind and Look Ahead episode of “Conversations on Health Care,” hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter turn their focus to the breakthroughs, discoveries and innovators shaping what comes next. “Health innovations and...
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2025 Rewind: Our guests recount the promises and hurdles
Health care policy faced major upheavals during the past 12 months and the effects are already being felt. On this special 2025 Rewind and Look Ahead episode of “Conversations on Health Care,” hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter reflect on the moments that defined the year and what may come...
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“Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America”: Author Conversation
Eighty percent of maternal deaths in the United States are considered preventable. So why do they keep happening? On this episode of “Conversations on Health Care,” hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter are joined by award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Irin Carmon…
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Congress Races to Find Obamacare Subsidy Solution: Reporters Examine the Efforts
Originally broadcast December 11, 2025 Congress is scrambling to find a solution to the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year. Without action, premiums are set to rise sharply for millions of Americans, creating a major health care cliff as 2026 approaches....
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Flu Cases Rising: “It’s Not Good,” Says Former CDC Dir. Dr. Tom Frieden
Originally broadcast December 4, 2025 The doctor who once led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sees trouble ahead: “It’s not good…what we have seen from Europe is a very early and very severe flu season, something that could mean more hospitalizations.” Dr. Tom Frieden says…
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Can You Have a ‘Healthy’ Thanksgiving? How the Food Industry Conspires Against Us
Leading nutritionist Marion Nestle, Ph.D., has a sobering message as we get ready for Thanksgiving: America’s food system delivers twice the calories we need while wasting 40%. “Thanksgiving provides five times the calories we need,” she points out. Her advice? “It is a week in which you just…
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How Dr. Sanjeev Arora Helped Improve Care for 200 Million Patients
People around the world are living longer and healthier lives because of an innovative idea that became a global force for change. On this episode of Conversations on Health Care, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter welcome back Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of Project ECHO, an approach that…
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“Cash for Moms and Babies”: How it Works & Why
Originally broadcast November 13, 2025 What if health care for moms and babies came with a cash prescription for them? In this Conversations on Health Care episode, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter welcome back Dr. Mona Hanna, the Flint pediatrician whose research exposed the city’s water...
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Conversations on Health Care is a project of the Moses/Weitzman Media Group and part of the first health system dedicated to the primary care for underserved populations. The show brings together top thought leaders in public health, health policy and innovation. Each episode offers an depth conversations and global perspectives on current trending topics.
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