Behind every statistic in health economics is a person making a choice. In this episode, Dr. Melanie Cozad, economist, health policy instructor, and GRL author, traces her unlikely path from the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps into health economics and public health. She unpacks how she teaches the Affordable Care Act without bringing politics into the classroom, why "opportunity cost" is the concept she wishes every policymaker truly understood, and how her research on patient-provider communication led her to help design a health-tracking app. We also get into where AI fits (and doesn't) in closing the communication gap between patients and clinicians. It all comes back to the same idea: the data is never just data.

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