April 9, 2021
The Out-of-Pocket Health News Digest
For our last Out-of-Pocket newsletter this semester, we have compiled a list of health policy resources to help you stay informed during the summer. Our hope is that you will find a few newsletters, podcasts and books that are enlightening and educational.

This compilation is produced by the HPSA Education Committee: Matthew Dunn, Magdalena Mihaylova, Atticus Raasch, and Brynna Thigpen
Newsletters
Podcasts
These podcasts feature health policy experts as they discuss the latest in health care or delve into a particular topic on a daily, weekly or biweekly basis.

America Dissected is a weekly podcast by Abdul-El Sayed. “In season 2, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and former city health commissioner, will keep you updated on what you need to know about COVID-19, what led us to this crisis in the first place, and what policies can lead us out.”

An Arm and a Leg is a bi-weekly podcast co-produced by Kaiser Health News and focuses on health care costs.

The Dose produced by the Commonwealth Fund is a biweekly podcast featuring health policy experts as they discuss domestic and international health policy issues.

The NACCHO Podcast Series produced by the National Association of County and City Health Officials features conversations from health policy experts as they tackle health policy on a county and city-level.

Public Health on Call produced by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health produces a daily podcast on emerging public health news.

Tradeoffs an approachable podcast by Dan Gorenstein and Courtney Summers covering the hot topics and counterintuitive nature of American health care

What the Health? produced by Kaiser Health News is a weekly podcast covering the latest news in health policy.
Books
The following book recommendations cover a range of topics, from the intersection of criminal justice and mental health to escalating health care costs to the opioid crisis.

  • An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
  • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less by Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor
  • Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty by Joanne Samuel Goldblum 
  • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live and Die by Keith Payne
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
  • Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner
  • Code Blue: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex by Mike Magee
  • Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
  • Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
  • Healing Politics by Abdul El-Sayed
  • Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth
  • Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide by Abdul El-Sayed
  • The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know by Yngvild Olsen, Joshua Sharfstein
  • Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science by Peter Hotez
  • The Price We Pay by Marty Makary
  • Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care by Uwe E. Reinhardt
  • Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus by Jennifer S Hirsch and Shamus Khan
  • Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health in America by Mary Otto
  • The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage by Jonathan Cohn