This is episode 47, “The U.S. Pandemic Response and How to Improve It.”
My guest, James G. Kahn, MD, MPH, is Emeritus Professor in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, the Institute for Global Health Sciences, and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. He has published widely on the cost and cost-effectiveness of HIV prevention and treatment in the developing world, as well as on other health conditions.
Dr. Kahn researches and educates on the costs and financing of single payer / Medicare-for-All. In 2005, he quantified that U.S. health care administration costs funded through private insurance account for nearly 25% of the costs of physician and hospital care. In 2014, he led a team that estimated potential savings of at least $400 billion per year from simplifying insurance-related administration in the U.S.
Dr. Kahn also served for two years as President of the California chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Do not miss the episode as Dr. Kahn discusses our response to the pandemic and how we can improve our response in the future.
Public Option, Unions, Obligation, Part 2
Public Option, Unions, Obligation, Part 1
A Local Resolution Supporting Medicare For All
Covid and Racial Inequities
Medicaid Is Helpful; Medicare for All Would Be Better
Falling Back in Love With Clinical Practice
Why We Need the Medicare for All Act
Disaster Preparedness and COVID-19
State Level Medicare for All: Is It Possible?
Racism, Health Care, and Medicare for All
Join the Fight
How Medicare Integrated Hospitals
Health Inequality and Physical Structure
A Living Wage Home Cleaning Company and COVID-19
We don’t have a health care system in the United States
Racial Inequities: COVID-19 has essentially ripped the cover off of some of the deepest cracks in our current healthcare system
An Ongoing Issue: Drug Prices and Supplies Before and During the Pandemic
Patients Are Just Pawns in the Game
If There's an Argument for Medicare for All That Ought to Convince Everyone, It's This Epidemic
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free