Medicare for All

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!

https://www.healthcare-now.org

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 36m. Bisher sind 90 Folge(n) erschienen. Alle zwei Wochen gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 4 hours 24 minutes

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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.


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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,


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 February 20, 2024  n/a
 
 

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...


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 January 22, 2024  52m
 
 

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,


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 January 22, 2024  0m
 
 

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 ...


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 December 11, 2023  50m
 
 

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,


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 November 21, 2023  48m
 
 

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,


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 October 27, 2023  40m
 
 

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...


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 October 1, 2023  55m
 
 

episode 86: Transgender Healthcare Under Attack


With all the threats facing our country – climate change, a predatory economy, corporations buying our elections, and the overt move towards fascism among the far right – you would think that politicians would be laser-focused on the existential crises...


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 August 28, 2023  n/a
 
 

episode 85: No-So-Nice Ratio


Almost every patient in America has had a frustrating experience in a hospital setting where we feel like we’re on a medical conveyor belt that moves WAY too slowly. We sit for too long in a waiting room; then our nurses or doctors speak with us very b...


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 August 13, 2023  46m