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What’s the deal with ultra processed foods? Are they as bad as all the media reports claim?
Open this video on Healthcare TriageHow Dangerous Are Ultra Processed Foods?
You've probably heard that “ultra-processed” foods are driving obesity, heart disease, cancer, and maybe also your bad mood and your inability to fold a fitted sheet. But what even are ultra-processed foods? And how exactly are they interfering with my laun...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageHow Does the US Spend So Much on Healthcare?
So here's the situation: the United States spends more on health care than basically anyone else on Earth, and somehow we're not healthier for it. Like, not even a little bit more. In fact, compared to other high-income countries, we tend to have worse outc...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageHow Prior Authorizations Slow Down Treatments
Prior authorization is a process where your doctor has to get approval from your insurance company before you can receive certain treatments, tests, or medications, if you want them covered. If that approval doesn't happen, your insurer may not pay. On pape...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageThe Push and Pull of Wait Times in Medicine
So by now, in our quest with AcademyHealth to fix the US health care system, we've talked about why wait times happen and how policy decisions shape them. Now it's time to talk about, well, the way we talk about them. This limited series is produced in part...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageHow Policy Can Increase Healthcare Wait Times
In our partnership with AcademyHealth to improve health and the US health care system, we're on a kick about wait times. We've already talked about how wait times aren't a random failure of a given health care system. They're what happens when supply, deman...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageThe Vagus Nerve is Important! But It's Not the Key to Wellness
Let's talk about the vagus nerve, because if you've been on the internet for more than five minutes, you've probably been told to "hack" it, "reset" it, or gently whisper affirmations to it while dunking your face in ice water. What is all that supposed to ...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageWhy Do I have to Wait to See a Doctor? Getting Care in the US Part 1
According to a 2025 survey, the average wait time for a medical appointment in large metropolitan areas in the United States was 31 days. That’s up from 26 days in 2022, and up from 21 days when the survey was first conducted in 2004. Wait times in US healt...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageCan You Backwards Walk Yourself to Health?
It seems that at some point recently it was decided that walking forward, something we have absolutely mastered as a species, was no longer enough. Now we’re walking backward. On purpose. In public. Making intense eye contact with anyone who dares question ...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageAmerica's Broken Healthcare Conversation: Expensive by Design part 3
Conversations about health care in America tend to follow a predictable pattern: one side argues for a free-market system where competition is key, the other argues for a government-run system where regulation is key. You hear versions of this everywhere, f...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageYou Are What You Eat? Do Food Ingredients Impact Cancer, Depression, and Hyperactivity?
We hear a lot about how our diets can impact a wide array of health outcomes, from cancer to depression to hyperactivity. So, how much does artificial sweetener increase your risk of cancer? Is intermittent fasting going to give you a heart attack? Will ult...
Open this video on Healthcare TriageHealthcare and the Big Beautiful Bill: Expensive by Design Part 2
We're back with our second episode in our new series with AcademyHealth on the stuff that drives us nuts about health care in the U.S.! In episode one we talked about how American healthcare is expensive by design because it's a patchwork system with a lot ...
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