Health Care News Podcast

About Health Care News Podcast

The Heartland Institute podcast featuring libertarian and conservative health care scholars who are working to put power back into the hands of patients and doctors, and away from government bureaucrats.

Publisher

The Heartland Institute

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Apr 2022

Latest episode

27 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

72 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Feb 2026

   Breaking Down Trump’s Healthcare Plan

   The ideas are not new, and it’s short on specifics, but will President Trump’s “The Great Healthcare Plan (https://www.whitehouse.gov/greathealthcare/)” lead to serious health reform? AnneMarie Schieber, managing editor of Health Care News (https://heartland.org/health-care-news/) and Devon Herrick, of the Goodman Institute Health Blog (https://www.goodmanhealthblog.org/)  discuss the pros and cons of the plan’s “four pillars.” Will price transparency (https://heartland.org/publications/trump-congress-states-push-health-care-price-transparency/) mean anything in a dysfunctional health care system where few people pay directly?  Are Trump’s drug price deals the kind of drug price reform patients need?  Will proposed ACA rules (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/11/2026-02769/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-hhs-notice-of-benefit-and-payment-parameters-for-2027-and) lead to lower cost  “indemnity” style  health insurance? Also, Sen. Rand Paul wants to remove nationwide liability protections for vaccine makers (https://heartland.org/publications/nationwide-effort-is-underway-to-ban-vaccine-mandates/), what about ending vaccine mandates (https://heartland.org/publications/states-reject-updated-cdc-recommendations-for-childhood-vaccination/), and Elon Musk and DOGE make it easy to “crowdsource” Medicaid fraud (https://opendata.hhs.gov/) investigations.

2. 

   15 Oct 2025

   Why Obamacare Was Never Affordable — A Candid Look at the 2025 Health Care Stalemate

   Health economist Devin Herrick and host AnneMarie Schieber dissect Obamacare's affordability issues, the 2025 subsidy stalemate, and potential free-market health care reforms.

3. 

   25 Sept 2025

   Republicans are resisting pressure to include Obamacare premium tax credits

   AnneMarie Schieber and Devon Herrick discuss Republican resistance to including Obamacare premium tax credits in a government funding bill.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

12,715,538

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.8 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

81

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

89

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