Dan launched the Tradeoffs podcast in October 2019. The project's tagline is "Exploring our confusing, costly, and often counterintuitive health care system." Release every Wednesday, it can be found through the Acast Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and Stitcher, all accessible directly or through the new Tradeoffs website. Previously, Dan was the senior reporter for Marketplace’s Health Desk, covering the business of healthcare. Before joining Marketplace in 2012, he spent more than 11 years at New Hampshire Public Radio. He got his start in journalism at the Chicago Reporter, an investigative journal that examines race and class disparities in Chicago. He has won numerous national and local awards, including a Sigma Delta Chi investigative reporting award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He earned a bachelor’s degree in human development and social relations from Earlham College.