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Episode 6: What’s Missing in Maternal Health

Episode 6: What’s Missing in Maternal Health

This week on “The Cost of Care” Venice Haynes and Meredith Shockley-Smith join David to talk broadly about social determinants and why black babies are twice as likely to die than white babies. David also speaks to Marquisse Watson – a mother whose baby girl Alana was born premature and passed away 36 hours after she was born – about working through her grief seven years later.

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Episode 5: Burnout: The Vicious Cycle

Episode 5: Burnout: The Vicious Cycle

The health care system is basically a lucrative game of tug-of-war – and the winner reaps a trillion dollar pot of gold. But is it a fair game? This week on “The Cost of Care,” David explores the monstrous fee-for service system and how the results can lead to a total system breakdown with Dr. Vivian Lee and Dr. Jill Gross.

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Episode 4: The Million Dollar Baby

Episode 4: The Million Dollar Baby

This week, David talks to Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, about how a mother and nurse at Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital, ended up with a $1.7 million dollar bill for the birth of her premature baby girl.

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Episode 2: Sickness = Profit

Episode 2: Sickness = Profit

With some help from an economic historian and a health care journalist, David goes back to the 1900s to find out how we ended up outspending other countries for five years less of life.

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Episode 1: The Doomsday Clock

Episode 1: The Doomsday Clock

Join David Smith for the launch of “The Cost of Care” where he explores how we can build a better health care system and stop the cycle of sickness, trauma, and loss.

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