Breaking Up Big Medicine: The Prior Authorization Crisis

Podcast: Nurse Rosa's INsights · Rosa Hart

Opublikowano: 2026-09-21

What happens when the companies that profit from denying care also decide what care you get? Nurse Rosa sits down with Hannah Garden-Monheit and Emma Freer, senior fellows at the American Economic Liberties Project and leaders of the Break Up Big Medicine Coalition, to talk about their report on prior authorization. Hannah shares the personal story behind her work: her father's cancer, his amputation, and the prior auth denials that followed. Emma explains the moral injury clinicians feel when paperwork pulls them away from the bedside. Together they walk through the numbers, the policy fixes, and what nurses, clinicians...