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 […]

  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 […]

  “President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, shared a debate stage June 27 for the first time since 2020, in a confrontation that — because of strict debate rules — managed to avoid the near-constant interruptions […]

  “The debt purchase measure is part of a larger county initiative that includes efforts to prevent the debt from accumulating in the first place, such as boosting hospital financial assistance programs and tracking hospital debt collection practices.”     Los Angeles County Approves Medical […]