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We’re calling Code WACK!
on America’s broken healthcare system.

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INFLAMED: Colonialism, Climate Change & Health Care

      Featuring physician and activist Rupa Marya, MD and best-selling author Raj Patel, PhD discussing their new book “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.”   INFLAMED: Colonialism, Climate Change & Health Care   —– TRANSCRIPT —–   Welcome to Code WACK! […]

Fighting for life in America’s healthcare rabbit hole

            Featuring Joel Sloan, who suffers from advanced heart failure at the age of 43,  discussing the toll America’s fragmented healthcare system has taken on him as he fights for the transplant he desperately needs to live.    Fighting for […]

Heartless Denial: HIV Discrimination & Organ Transplants

          Join Joel Sloan, who suffers from advanced heart failure at the age of 43,  & Brenda Gazzar as they delve into the disturbing details of his extraordinary fight to get a heart transplant despite his HIV status and enlarged aorta.  […]

‘Centuries of Inequities’ & the COVID Crisis

          Join Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH, & Brenda Gazzar as they take a deep dive on the structural reasons for America’s fragmented healthcare system and what we can do to fix it.   ‘Centuries of Inequities’ & the COVID Crisis […]

Medicine’s undeniable role in U.S. racism

        Featuring Dr. Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH, former Chief Medical Officer – Primary Care for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services & “full-time troublemaker,” discussing the artificial separation between social, structural and personal racism.   Medicine’s undeniable role in U.S. […]

Restaurant Worker Abuse? Let Us Count The Ways

        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 […]

Did NY Dems drop the ball on Medicare for All — again? 

      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 […]