Bringing Health Policy to the Forefront with Susan Dentzer
The WoMed
Podcast Nation
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Trust the WoMed to provide you with your weekly dose of healthcare knowledge! This week’s guest is Susan Dentzer, highly regarded health policy expert and Senior Policy Fellow at the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University whose experience reporting on healthcare spans decades. She is also the soon to be host of Optum’s podcast, Until It’s Fixed. In this episode, Susan drops some major knowledge bombs as she and host D discuss the major disconnect between what clinicians and patients experience on the ground versus the decisions made by policy makers.
Check out the Kaiser Family Foundation’s website at kff.org for a trusted and accessible source of news on health policy issues and tune in as Susan Dentzer hosts Optum’s new podcast Until It’s Fixed coming out October 6! Be sure to subscribe, rate and review, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @TheWoMed! Remember to submit your weekly Nurse D Energy moments to D on Instagram - we love reading and sharing them!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by PodcastNation. |
| 0:15.0 | Happy Monday and welcome back to The Wall Med. |
| 0:18.0 | I am really pumped about this episode. |
| 0:20.0 | I know I say that a lot, but when you love what you do, it's easy. |
| 0:24.0 | But for real, health policy is something we don't always think about |
| 0:27.0 | or realize it's importance until we're burnt out and it's too late. |
| 0:31.0 | This week, I get to speak with former PBS health correspondent Susan Denser. |
| 0:36.0 | Susan has worked on a range of healthcare policies and is passionate about explaining policy |
| 0:41.0 | and making it relatable as well as bringing more clinicians to Washington to help make these decisions. |
| 0:46.0 | I hope you're ready. This one really lit a fire in me. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay guys, going out on a limb here with this. |
| 0:54.0 | But there's nothing more nasty energy than this. |
| 0:58.0 | Make sure you all registered to vote. |
| 1:01.0 | Double check your polling locations. |
| 1:03.0 | Read up on not just the presidential candidates, |
| 1:06.0 | but send it in local government officials running as well. |
| 1:09.0 | Make a plan to vote. |
| 1:11.0 | Whether that is requesting your mail in ballot. |
| 1:13.0 | Make sure you request it now and that you drop it off at a ballot box |
| 1:17.0 | or read up on correctly filling it out and mailing it in. |
| 1:20.0 | So it actually does count and doesn't get discarded. |
| 1:24.0 | Vote early if you can. |
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