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American Potential · 470 episodes with transcripts

American Potential is a national award-winning podcast that shares how individuals are taking action in their communities to break barriers. While some of our guests may be public officials or influencers, many are ordinary Americans who decided, “enough is enough,” and are stepping up in a big way.

Spoken has transcripts of 470 American Potential episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 20, 2026.

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Aaron Rice on the 45-Year Rule That Blocked New Home Health Care in Mississippi

October 20, 2026

Aaron Rice (0:01)

The whole Medicare reimbursement system that was in place back in 1979 doesn't even exist anymore, so the whole rationale of kinds has kind of gone away. But specifically within Home Health, the entire idea behind certificates of need was that it was mainly hospitals and things that were very expensive to procure…

Things that a provider might spend a lot of money on, particularly facilities like a hospital. And so the idea there was to help drive those massive costs down by basically making providers, healthcare providers prove that there was a need for this expensive equipment or this huge facility that they wanted to build…

SPEAKER_2 (1:00)

Americans are capable of achieving extraordinary things when they have the freedom and opportunity to do so. This is American Potential.

David From (1:10)

Hey everyone, welcome to the American Potential podcast. I'm your host, David From. You may remember COVID forced everyone to change how we live.

And it also changed how we worked and received healthcare. For seniors, it was particularly important because missing doctors visits and treatments had real consequences. So because of these issues, a physical therapist named Butch in Mississippi wanted to make care more accessible through an in-home service. But…

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