Health Affairs This Week
Hosted by Jeff Byers and Katherine Ornstein · Health Affairs
4.8from 38 ratings
- 284
- Episodes
- 138
- Transcribed
- 38
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 279K
- YouTube views
About Health Affairs This Week
Health Affairs This Week places listeners at the center of health policy’s proverbial water cooler. Join host Jeff Byers, editors from Health Affairs Publishing, and guests as they discuss health policy’s most pressing news and trends.
- Publisher
- Health Affairs
- Category
- health & fitness · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
138 of 284 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
ACA Marketplace Turbulence: Fraud, Brokers, and Coverage Loss
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Prior Authorization's Next Era: CMS Reform, AI, and Faster Approvals
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Medicare-Medicaid Integration Working? Depends On Who You Ask
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ACA Marketplace Turbulence: Fraud, Brokers, and Coverage Loss
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] How many are in the marketplace? What's the percentage of the marketplace that's affected by this move? Et cetera, et cetera. Sure. According to KFF, there are about 19.2 million people enrolled in health insurance across all ACA marketplaces. And 13.6 million of those are enrolled through federalhealthcare.gov websites, so the non-state-based marketplaces in 29 states. So that's a lot fewer than the 181 million people in employer-based insurance or 140 million covered by Medicare and Medicaid. But those affected by the recent disenrollment are about 4% of that population of the 13.6 million in non-state-based ACA plans. […]
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- Meg Winchester
- Kathleen Haddad
- Allison Rizer
- Jack Hoadley
- Dan Arnold
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 279,120
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 24 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 14 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 90
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Who hosts Health Affairs This Week?
Jeff Byers and Katherine Ornstein host the show. Published by Health Affairs.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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