{"podcast":{"title":"Care Talk with Laura Packard: American Health Care Explained","slug":"care-talk-with-laura-packard-american-health-care-explained-6733935","podcast_index_feed_id":6733935,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/f4520de0-f5b9-4ba9-b510-a517553cf327","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/care-talk-with-laura-packard","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/3/6/21/1b20a5ec-5f79-4214-adfb-8342e70642bf_89-432b-ac37-0896c9280205_caretalk_podcast_art.jpg","author":"Laura Packard","episode_count":132,"summary":"American health care is broken. But that doesn't mean it needs to break you. With the help of some friends, we can make sense of it all and come out stronger. Join Laura Packard, cancer survivor and health care advocate, each week on Care Talk as she brings policy experts to answer your questions on Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, private insurance, and more. We help patients and families navigate America's health insurance and health care systems, and explain topics in-depth from how to fight medical bills to lowering the cost of healthcare in America. New episodes every Tuesday. CALL/TEXT IN YOUR QUESTIONS FOR FUTURE EPISODES ‪(202) 838-6837‬.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T22:17:30.277798+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/care-talk-with-laura-packard-american-health-care-explained-6733935"},"episode":{"title":"TrumpRx Exposed: What It Means for Your Prescriptions w/ Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen","slug":"trumprx-exposed-what-it-means-for-your-prescriptions-w-peter-maybarduk-public-citizen","published_at":"2026-02-17T11:00:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/care-talk-with-laura-packard-american-health-care-explained-6733935/trumprx-exposed-what-it-means-for-your-prescriptions-w-peter-maybarduk-public-citizen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/care-talk-with-laura-packard-american-health-care-explained-6733935","url":"https://healthcarevoices.org/caretalk","audio_url":"https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/5d28bf1a-3235-4f75-9867-9ce28d341922/stream.mp3","summary":"President Trump recently announced TrumpRx, a new direct-to-consumer website that he claims will lower prescription drug costs in the U.S. What is TrumpRx and how does it work? Will it help you access cheaper medicines, or not? Peter Maybarduk from Public Citizen talks about it in this #CareTalk episode with show host, cancer survivor, and health care advocate Laura Packard from Health Care Voices . Plus Diane Archer from Just Care & Social Security Works and Louise Norris from healthinsurance.org answer your American health insurance and health care questions on Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, private insurance and more. This episode has more about changes proposed to insurance plans from CMS including a deductible of over 15,000 dollars for catastrophic health insurance, and as Medicare Advantage open enrollment continues what are the differences between traditional Medicare and MA. New episodes of Care Talk every Tuesday, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Text or call in your health insurance and health care questions in to (202) 838-6837 to get answers in future shows! Free or Low Cost Health Care Resources on our show page: https://healthcarevoices.org/caretalk","meta_description":"President Trump recently announced TrumpRx, a new direct-to-consumer website that he claims will lower prescription drug costs in the U.S. What is TrumpRx…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1909,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/care-talk-with-laura-packard-american-health-care-explained-6733935/episodes/trumprx-exposed-what-it-means-for-your-prescriptions-w-peter-maybarduk-public-citizen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/care-talk-with-laura-packard-american-health-care-explained-6733935/trumprx-exposed-what-it-means-for-your-prescriptions-w-peter-maybarduk-public-citizen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}