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Articles by Dan Gorenstein

Reimagining the Future of Health Research After Sweeping Cuts

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By Brit Hanson Verified, Dan Gorenstein
| Tradeoffs Verified
The Trump administration’s decimation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has many academics deeply concerned. Listen on YouTube Listen on Spotify Listen on NPR The Trump administration has repeatedly targeted federal health care research by cutting staff, slashing funding, and adding more political review at the National Institutes of Health.
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Hidden Help: What Happened When Oregon Forced Hospitals to Boost Financial Aid?

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By Melanie Evans Verified, Dan Gorenstein
| Tradeoffs Verified
In the second episode of our special series on medical debt, we explore lessons from Oregon’s aggressive legislation to push hospitals to prevent patients from falling into medical debt. Listen on YouTube Listen on Spotify Listen on NPR When Oregon passed an ambitious medical debt prevention law in 2023, the state was charting new territory.
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Hidden Help: A New Push for Hospitals to Prevent Medical Debt

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By Melanie Evans Verified, Dan Gorenstein
| Tradeoffs Verified
Hospitals can automatically wipe out the cost of care for low-income patients. A Tradeoffs analysis finds that hospitals in Texas could be doing more to protect people from unaffordable bills. Listen in Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on NPR Texas has some of the highest rates of medical debt That’s one big reason Tradeoffs decided to focus on Texas for “Hidden Help,” our new investigative series in collaboration with KFF Health News.
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States Weigh In on Medicaid Fraud

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By Ryan Levi, Dan Gorenstein
| Tradeoffs Verified
A live conversation with a bipartisan group of state Medicaid leaders on the impact of the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-fraud push. Listen in Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on NPR The Trump administration has made fighting fraud one of its top health care priorities, and Medicaid has been a particular focus.
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911 Fails People in Mental Health Crises. Here’s a Plan to Fix It.

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By Christine Herman, Dan Gorenstein
| Tradeoffs Verified
911 calls related to mental health are the most likely to involve police use of force. A new book offers a blueprint for a 911 redesign that could save lives. Listen in Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on NPR When people talk about the dangers faced by someone in a mental health crisis, a lot of focus turns understandably to law enforcement.
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Beyond Finger Pointing: The Fight to Lower Health Care Costs

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By Dan Gorenstein
| Tradeoffs Verified
In a live conversation recorded at Aspen Ideas: Health, executives from a hospital, insurer and pharmacy join a top Trump administration official and leading health economist to discuss how to collectively bring down health care costs. Listen in Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on NPR The debate over how to bring down health care costs often becomes a finger pointing game. Hospitals, insurers and drug companies all say the others are to blame.
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A Wyoming doctor’s fight to keep abortion legal in her deep red state Original

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By Christine Herman, Dan Gorenstein
| The 19th News Verified
Published 2026-08-04 05:00 5:00 August 4, 2026 am America/Chicago Republish this story Four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the fight over abortion access continues to rage. At least four states will ask voters in November to enact or repeal constitutional amendments protecting abortion access. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court rejected another attempt by abortion opponents to make pills for abortion more difficult to access — though other legal challenges are ongoing.
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A Wyoming doctor’s fight to keep abortion legal in her deep red state

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By Christine Herman, Dan Gorenstein
| Flipboard
Fremont County (Wyo.) 5 hours ago A Country Songwriting Legend Is Playing A Free Show In Dubois, WY k2radio.com - Drew Kirby • 5h There's something about live music in a small town that just hits differently. This Thursday in Dubois, that feeling comes with a Nashville lineup … Polling 2 hours ago Preparing the polls Election prep continues this week — training scheduled Aug. 4, 5 and 6 newslj.com - Publisher • 2h Preparing the polls Election prep continues this week — training scheduled Aug.
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In Nebraska, Americans begin to lose Medicaid under Trump's work rules

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By Julie Wernau Verified, Ryan Levi, Dan Gorenstein
| NPR Verified
On Aug. 1, the first Americans lose Medicaid under Trump’s work rules Nebraska's Medicaid director, in an exclusive interview with nonprofit news organization Tradeoffs, said roughly 200 people will lose health coverage on Aug. 1. On Saturday, Nebraska will become the first state to remove people from Medicaid for failing to meet new work requirements signed into law by President Trump.
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