THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   What is the true cost of the American health insurance system? What toll is it taking on both patients and providers?  And what do we need instead? To find out, we recently interviewed Dr. […]

          THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   How did a single mom in Kentucky, in the 1970s, become a physician, then a health insurance medical reviewer and eventually a whistleblower? To find out, we recently interviewed Dr. Linda Peeno, a physician […]

        THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   In honor of PRIDE Month, we’re revisiting a popular podcast episode about the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. What were the health policy failures that spurred so many Americans to militant activism? How […]

  “Over the past two years, a simple but baffling request has preceded most of my encounters with medical professionals: ‘Rate your pain on a scale of zero to 10.’”     Pain Doesn’t Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10   I trained […]

  “What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care?The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay.”     Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries   “It’s on our minds a whole […]

  New Code WACK! episode Find us on Apple podcasts, our website or your favorite podcast platform. Thanks to our devoted listeners, Code WACK! just ranked #23in Goodpods’ Top 100 Indie Documentary Monthly charts!       The ‘Silent, SlowApocalypse’ of CorporateHealth Insurance Featuring Linda […]