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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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]