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Private health plans pay hospitals much more than Medicare would, common-sense solutions to the border crisis, reducing opioid deaths, and more.

Published: May 10, 2019, 6 p.m.

We discuss how much private health plans pay hospitals compared with Medicare; potential solutions for the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border; reducing opioid overdose deaths; myths about the Sri Lanka bombings; how to fund the rebuilding of U.S. infrastructure; and the gap between America\u2019s defense strategy and its military capacity. For more information on this week\u2019s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.