Benjamin Day and Stephanie Nakajima of Healthcare-NOW break down everything you need to know about the social movement to make healthcare a right in the United States. Medicare for All!
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episode 97: Mental Health & For-Profit Insurance: A Deadly Combo
The U.S. is wrestling with a massive mental health crisis - impacting young people in particular. Half of young adults and one-third of all adults report that they always feel anxious or have often felt anxiety in the past year.
episode 96: Cyberattacks, Messaging Wars, and the Capitalist Hellscape
We hear it over and over again – the private sector just does it better. Whether we’re talking education or healthcare or our criminal justice system, the default Republican (and sometimes Democratic) talking point is that competition in the marketplac...
episode 95: The Battle of the Letters: Medicare Advantage
Occasional fistfights aside, most of our legislators make the choice to use their words when they’re angry, and a lot of those words go into public letters they write to presidents, officials, and even each other.
episode 94: Hospital Merger Mania!
Here at the Medicare for All Podcast, we love calling out all the bad actors in our healthcare system – greedy insurance companies, soul-less CEOs in Big Pharma,profit-hungry “non-profit hospitals”, and all our favorite villains. Mostly,
episode 93: Racial Equity in Healthcare
Just this Monday, we celebrated Martin Luther King Day, a tribute to one of the great leaders of the movement for racial justice – but something that often gets forgotten in the flurry of MLK quotes that become memes this time of year is that equity in...
episode 92: 2023 Wrapped: Year in Review!
2023! What a year! Overall, it probably wasn’t the worst year ever: On the positive side, we had Barbenheimer, the Titan Submarine implosion, congressional hearings on UFOs, and all the Taylor Swift gossip you can handle. On the negative side,
episode 91: Mailbag Episode: Super Fans Edition!
It’s that time again folks… time for a Mailbag Episode! We reached out to our whole audience and all our supporters to find the pressing questions on everyone’s mind. Or at least we would have if Gillian hadn’t been too busy eating turkey to email our ...
episode 90: What even *is* health insurance?
Open enrollment. Deductible. Coinsurance. HMO. Indemnity plan. If you’re listening this far, you probably have a migraine already. Understanding the language of the health insurance industry, let alone selecting a health insurance plan,
episode 89: How the Other Half Lives: Concierge Care
If you’ve ever had an experience with the American healthcare system, you’ve probably walked away thinking, “Why can’t we have nice things? Or even basic human things??” We get stuck on gurneys sitting in ER hallways,
episode 87: The Price is Right (for Prescription Drugs)!
Just over a month ago we lost Bob Barker, the man who taught us all about the brutal nature of capitalism one pricing game at a time. Now, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal government is going to be playing a role in determining the pr...