Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale economist Janet Currie to discuss how early-life investments in health, education, and environmental protection shape children's lifelong well-being and economic opportunity. Harlan highlights a new Medicare payment model that would reward measurable improvements in chronic disease outcomes; Howie reflects on the spread of medical misinformation and a new effort to push back.

Show notes:

The ACCESS Payment Model

CMS: ACCESS (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) Model

"ACCESS: What this new payment model means for physicians and patients"

"FDA Launches TEMPO: A First-of-Its-Kind Digital Health Pilot to Expand Access to Chronic Disease Technologies"

Janet Currie

"Welcoming Janet Currie: A Pioneer in the Economics of Children and Families Joins Yale"

Janet Currie: "Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Effect of Legal Structure on Dispute Costs and Wages"

Janet Currie: "Child health as human capital"

Janet Currie: "Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis"

"Medicaid and Children's Health: 5 Issues to Watch Amid Recent Federal Changes"

Janet Currie: "Medicaid: What Does It Do, and Can We Do It Better?"

Janet Currie: "Does Head Start Make a Difference?"

Janet Currie: "Longer Term Effects of Head Start"

Janet Currie: "Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School, and Juvenile Detention Records"

Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) Series

Janet Currie: "Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Changes in the Medicaid Eligibility of Pregnant Women"

Janet Currie: "Doctor Decision Making and Patient Outcomes"

Janet Currie's American Economic Association Presidential Address: "Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis"

"Addressing Common Misconceptions About the Child Mental Health Crisis"

Janet Currie: "To What Extent are Trends in Teen Mental Health Driven by Changes in Reporting?"

Janet Currie: "Rules versus Discretion: Treatment of Mental Illness in US Adolescents"

Misinformation

Mayo Clinic: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): Symptoms and causes

"Inside RFK Jr.'s push against the flu vaccine that he links to his voice condition"

Health & Veritas Episode 197: Peter Hotez: Mapping the Anti-Science Machine

"It's time for a new era of advocacy for physicians"

"Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows"

"Take It From a Scientist. Facts Matter, and They Don't Care How You Feel."

"A small study on Covid vaccine safety sparks an online tempest"

Health & Veritas Episode 192: Akiko Iwasaki: What Have We Learned About Long COVID?

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