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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 6 hours 5 minutes
Did Big Pharma or Governments Invent the COVID Vaccines?
Stephanie and Ben discuss who developed the vaccine; who is profiting from it; and the fight for global vaccine equity on this episode with guests David Mitchell of Patients for Affordable Drugs and Andrew Goldstein,
Pharma’s Image Gets a Boost from COVID-19
62% of people now have a positive opinion of drug companies, up from 32% in 2020. What's responsible for the sudden shift, and do pharmaceutical companies deserve this newfound adoration? We're joined by Shannon Rotolo,
episode 33: Mailbag Episode: Listeners interview us
In our inaugural mailbag episode, Rose Roach - Executive Director of the Minnesota Nurses - joins us to answer your questions about how Medicare for All would save money and impact rural hospitals, how to answer to pushback on cost,
episode 32: Biden's 1st 100 Days on Healthcare
We discuss Biden’s American Families Plan proposal, which Biden unveiled in his first State of the Union address last week (spoiler: it’s rather underwhelming) and the industry lobbying that made it happen.
episode 31: The Koch Brothers: Behind New Strategy Against M4A?
We talk with Ben Palmquist from Partners for Dignity & Rights about a new anti-single payer bill in the Florida state legislature that would require a two-thirds supermajority to pass a single payer bill in the state.
episode 30: New York: Majority Support in House and Senate for M4A
In January, the Campaign for New York Health made single payer history in the United States: the bill secured the support of a majority of co-sponsors in both chambers of the New York State legislature. Campaign organizers Ursula Rozum and YuLing Koh H...
episode 29: Record-Breaking Launch of the Medicare for All Act
Rep. Pramila Jayapal re-introduced the Medicare for All bill last week with a record 112 original cosponsors - up now to 114. We talk about surprise sign-ons, powerful stories from the cosponsoring Reps, the first national endorsement of a hospital CEO...
episode 28: The 2021 Medicare for All Bill
We’re joined by Stephanie Kang, Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Health Policy Director, to discuss the upcoming 2021 Medicare for All bill, which will be shortly reintroduced in Congress. Kang also discusses changes made to the membership rules of the Progressi...
episode 27: The Road to a Floor Vote on Medicare for All
In the House, we have about half of the cosponsors we need to pass Medicare for All. Democrats who are not currently cosponsors (and constitute the other half we need to win) represent districts that are whiter and wealthier than the districts we’ve al...
episode 24: Healthcare in the Netherlands: Public or Private?
Is the supposedly “private" Netherlands healthcare system a model for the US? And what would it take, politically and in terms of concrete policy, to transition to this system? Dr. Kieke Okma, an expert on healthcare systems around the world,