Episode 1: There are four general models of healthcare that cover most of the world’s population. Most countries usually contain one or two of these models, whereas the United States contains all four models. We discuss the Beveridge, Bismarck, National Health Insurance, and Out-of-Pocket Models of healthcare and compare their roles in the United States and around the world.
Episode 2: We discuss the threats – Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard – that national health systems face and the large-scale experiments that explored these concepts. We finish the show by discussing the ability of the individual mandate within the Affordable Care Act to combat these threats and how, with the fee for violating the Individual Mandate being reduced to $0 in 2019, this ability may be drastically reduced.
Episode 3: The social determinants of health have been written and spoken about for centuries. We explore these determinants through the story of Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami whose history is unfortunately commonplace in many countries across the United States.
Episode 4: Health insurance models have had a rich and evolving history over the last century in the United States. We discuss the history of HMOs, PPOs, and ACOs and each insurance model’s respective advantages and disadvantages.
Episode 5: The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) seems to be the next evolution of American healthcare organizations and insurance models. We provide a brief overview of ACOs, their history, and what problem they try to address in healthcare.
Episode 6: The 2018 Midterm Elections raised the issue of Medicaid expansion with many candidates voicing support for expansion in their respective states. We discuss the different roles the federal government and state governments play in not only Medicaid expansion, but also health policy and healthcare administration in general.
Episode 7: We compare Electronic Health Records with Electronic Medical Records and discuss their origin, design, purpose, and implementation.