Podcasts

    Featuring Michael Lighty, a founding Fellow of the Sanders Institute, who has organized, advocated and developed policy for single-payer Medicare for All nationally and in California for nearly three decades. Most recently, he was the healthcare constituency director for Bernie 2020.   Listen […]

    Featuring Michael Lighty, a founding Fellow of the Sanders Institute, who has organized, advocated and developed policy for single-payer Medicare for All nationally and in California for nearly three decades. Most recently, he was the healthcare constituency director for Bernie 2020.     […]

    Scott Nelson, a public interest attorney with the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen, discusses the likelihood that the latest case against the Affordable Care Act before the U.S. Supreme Court will fail.    Listen to the podcast! Click the arrow in the […]

    Featuring Scott Nelson, a public interest attorney with the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen, on the latest case against the Affordable Care Act being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.   Listen to the podcast! Click the arrow in the circle (below […]

    Featuring Ayesha Orange, SAG-AFTRA member and working dancer/choreographer in Hollywood, on the challenges performers currently face getting enough of the “right kind of work” to qualify for employer-subsidized health insurance. And what now? Upcoming changes to the union benefit plan will make it […]

    Featuring Ayesha Orange, SAG-AFTRA member and working dancer/choreographer in Hollywood, on the challenges performers currently face getting enough of the “right kind of work” to qualify for employer-subsidized health insurance. And what now? Upcoming changes to the union benefit plan will make it […]

    Last time, we spoke to David L. Lander, the actor who played Squiggy on Laverne and Shirley, and his wife, Kathy Fields Lander. They’re retired actors and longtime SAG-AFTRA members bracing themselves for dramatic changes to their health plan. This is worrisome because […]

    Featuring David L. Lander, the comedian who played Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley, and his wife, Kathy Fields Lander. They’re retired actors who are longtime SAG-AFTRA members in Los Angeles. They’re now bracing themselves for dramatic changes to their health plan. That’s a concern […]

    Featuring Libby Schaaf, mayor of Oakland, California. Along with Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, Mayor Schaaf co-founded Mayors for Medicare for All, a coalition of American mayors who believe that health care is a human right.   Is healthcare inequality more evident to […]