• BEST OF: Don Berwick on How to Fix US Health Care
    Dec 9 2025

    Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Don Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement about his paper as part of the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2025 package that proposes strategies for how health care in the US could be transformed.

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    30 mins
  • BEST OF: Eric Topol on the Science of Super-Aging and Longevity
    Dec 2 2025

    Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Eric Topol, Executive Vice President of Scripps Research, on his new book, Super Agers, which provides an evidence-based approach on extending healthy lifespans.

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    32 mins
  • Job Lock’s Hidden Health Costs w/ Tiffany Lemon
    Nov 25 2025

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Tiffany Lemon of Arizona State University on her recent paper exploring the concept of job-lock as it pertains to employer-sponsored health insurance and its impacts on adult physical and mental health.

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    31 mins
  • Does UnitedHealthcare Pay Optum Providers Differently? w/ Dan Arnold
    Nov 18 2025

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Dan Arnold of Brown University to discuss his recent paper exploring higher payments within UnitedHealth’s Optum network, which found UHC Paid Optum providers more than non-Optum Providers using price transparency data.

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    25 mins
  • How Employers Are Navigating Rising Health Care Costs
    Nov 11 2025

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Matthew Rae, Associate Director of the Health Care Marketplace Program at KFF, about his recent paper exploring the findings from the KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey, reporting on benefits in 2025.

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    26 mins
  • Protecting Public Health in a Politicized Era w/ Michael Osterholm
    Nov 4 2025

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), about the future of U.S. public health, the politicization of vaccine oversight, and why fragmented state guidance threatens pandemic preparedness. He also discusses his new book, The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics.

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    34 mins
  • Inside U.S. Generic Drug Approvals: Risk, Regulation & Policy w/ Jennifer Kao
    Oct 28 2025

    In this episode, Rob Lott interviews Jennifer Kao of the UCLA Anderson School of Management in front of a live audience about her paper in the October 2025 issue of Health Affairs exploring the impact of risk evaluation and mitigation strategies on generic approvals of US pharmaceutical products.


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    31 mins
  • The Different Costs — and Sites — of Care for Commercial Insurers w/ Matthew Maughan
    Oct 21 2025

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Matthew Maughan of Brown University about his paper exploring how commercial insurers paid more for procedures at hospital outpatient departments as compared to ambulatory surgical centers.

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    20 mins