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There’s a problem with your health care bill, or you have difficulty getting coverage for the care you need. Your doctor or hospital tells you to talk to your insurer. Your insurer tells you to talk to your doctor or hospital. You’re stuck in an endless runaround.

"Lousy Customer Service? A Better Way in Health Care" is from the March 13, 2017 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

By middle age, the lenses in your eyes harden, becoming less flexible. Your eye muscles increasingly struggle to bend them to focus on this print. But a new form of training — brain retraining, really — may delay the inevitable age-related loss of close-range visual focus so that you will not need reading glasses.

"Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses" is from the March 27, 2017 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

The opioid epidemic just keeps getting worse, presenting challenges discussed at length at a White House summit last week. But opioids are not the United States’ only significant drug problem. Among illicit drugs, cocaine is the No. 2 killer and claims the lives of more African-Americans than heroin does.

"Overshadowed by the Opioid Crisis: A Comeback by Cocaine" is from the March 05, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Even before any proposed cuts take effect, Medicaid is already lean in one key area: Many state programs lack coverage for dental care.

"How Dental Inequality Hurts Americans" is from the February 19, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

If you’re on Medicaid in Kentucky and are kicked off the rolls for failing to meet the state’s new work requirements, Kentucky will be offering a novel way to reactivate your medical coverage: a health or financial literacy course you must pass.

"Twist to Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Rule: Pass a Course Instead" is from the January 22, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

It’s a shame that President Donald Trump’s opioid commission said little about demand-side prevention. It’s a lot less costly (both in dollars and in lives disrupted) to stop opioid misuse before it starts than to deal with its aftermath.

"Where Is the Prevention in the President’s Opioid Report?" is from the November 27, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

You might think that once drugs, devices and medical procedures are shown to be effective, they quickly become available. You might also think that those shown not to work as well as alternatives are immediately discarded. Reasonable assumptions both, but you’d be wrong.

"Medical Mystery: Why Is Back Surgery So Popular in Wyoming?" is from the February 13, 2017 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and Jonathan Skinner and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

A number of Republican health care policy proposals that seemed out of favor in the Obama era are now being given new life. One of these involves Medicare, the government health insurance program primarily for older Americans, and is known as premium support.

"A Republican Plan for Medicare Is Experiencing a Revival" is from the January 30, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Aaron E. Carroll and Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

American life spans are rising, and as they are, health care spending is, too. But longevity is not contributing to the spending increase as much as you might think.

"Blame Technology, Not Longer Life Spans, for Health Spending Increases" is from the January 23, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

The point of prescription drugs is to help us get or feel well. Yet so many Americans take multiple medications that doctors are being encouraged to pause before prescribing and think about “deprescribing” as well.

"How Many Pills Are Too Many?" is from the April 10, 2017 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Most hospitals are nonprofit and justify their exemption from taxation with community service and charity care. But the Trump administration could require some of them to do more to help the poor, and the hospitals that are in the crosshairs are those benefiting from an obscure drug discount program known as 340B.

"A Little-Known Windfall for Some Hospitals, Now Facing Big Cuts" is from the August 29, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Each year, for well over a decade, more people have faced higher health insurance deductibles. The theory goes like this: The more of your own money that you have to spend on health care, the more careful you will be — buying only necessary care, purging waste from the system.

"Shopping for Health Care Simply Doesn’t Work. So What Might?" is from the July 30, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Kristi Burns.

How much you spend on medical care depends on what you get, but also where you get it.

"Can Low-Intensity Care Solve High Health Care Costs?" is from the June 11, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Dhruv Khullar and Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.