Dan Gorenstein

Today, we talk with that researcher and a sheriff about how 9-1-1 has harmed people with mental illness and what a better system could look like.

From the studio at the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, I'm Dan Gorenstein.

This is Tradeoffs.

More than half a million calls, on average, come into 911 every day.

Thank you, Dan.

Thank you.

I'm Dan Gorenstein.

This is Tradeoffs.

Today, we look at the upheaval happening with America's food stamp program and meet one man living with the consequences.

From the studio at the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, I'm Dan Gorenstein.

This is Tradeoffs.

When I met John Waxler this July, he was a man in crisis.

But I'm a vegetarian.

he says, he'll buy her a salad instead.

I'm Dan Gorenstein.

This is Tradeoffs.

Yeah, so I'll start on prior auth, which obviously has been in a headline.

So I think across the industry, the majority of payers we were talking about this morning would tell you that that's something that hasn't worked for a whole host of different reasons.

Just a couple of things.

One is prior authorization, different rules.

Today, a candid conversation between two researchers about the uncertain present and its impact on the future of health care.

From the studios at the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, I'm Dan Gorenstein.

This is Tradeoffs.

We've spent the last few weeks talking with academics about the impacts that deep cuts to NIH funding may have.

She's planning to apply for academic jobs after she graduates next year, but would like assurances her institution would defend her from government attacks.

Absent that, she's content to work at a clinic until it feels like she can conduct her research unimpeded.

I'm Dan Gorenstein.

This is Tradeoffs.

Today, how a virtual unknown has risen to the top of Trump's health department, and what that could mean for the nation's health policy.

From the studio at the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, I'm Dan Gorenstein.

This is Tradeoffs.

To learn more about the guy President Trump has tasked with cleaning up the mess at the Department of Health and Human Services, I called up an old friend.

But last week, President Trump, with RFK Jr. at his side, issued a controversial executive order on childhood vaccines.

Dan noted that Klomp was not at that press conference.

I'm Dan Gorenstein.

This is Tradeoffs.