Featuring Brenda Waybrant, union organizer and former restaurant worker in “Music City” Nashville, Tennessee, whose service job required her to risk catching COVID-19 for $4.50 per hour. Does commercial health insurance provide the coverages restaurant workers need to cope with the […]
Author: Brenda Gazzar
Featuring Brenda Waybrant, union organizer and former restaurant worker in “Music City” Nashville, Tennessee, whose story illustrates how our broken healthcare system harms low-paid Americans in particular. This is the first of two pods featuring her. Why Restaurant Workers […]
Featuring Dr. Stephen Kemble, psychiatrist, board member of Physicians for a National Health Program and member of One Payer States, discussing tricks health insurers use to increase profits – at our expense – and a common “Trojan horse” found […]
Featuring Mariana Pineda, a New York teacher, single mom and Medicare for All activist pulling back the curtain on the campaign for the NY Health Act. Why, on the heels of a devastating pandemic, did the Democratic-controlled New York Legislature take a […]
Featuring Mariana Pineda, a New York teacher, single mom and Medicare for All activist who’s been struggling with Long COVID for the past year. How’s her health insurance working out for her? Listen and learn! This is part one of […]
Featuring Dr. Stephanie Kang, PhD, speaking about how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s 2021 Medicare-for-All bill, and whether Americans enjoy “choices” with commercial health insurance that Medicare for All would take away. Kang, who serves as Jayapal’s health policy director, is […]
Featuring Dr. Stephanie Kang, PhD, who is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal’s health policy director and a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is speaking on behalf of herself and not necessarily on behalf of the office of Rep. […]
Featuring Dr. Thomas Rice, health economist and Distinguished Professor at University of California, Los Angeles’ Fielding School of Public Health, and host Brenda Gazzar, discussing why it’s not “one-size-fits-all” when it comes to health insurance systems. This is part two of […]