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on America’s broken healthcare system.
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THIS TIME ON CODE WACK! How far did one man have to go to get the health insurance he needed to cover a specialized surgery in another state? Despite jumping through many hoops to even qualify to buy the coverage […]
THIS TIME ON CODE WACK! Imagine having to fight with your HMO insurer about compensating your surgeon who doesn’t belong to your provider network, but happens to be a specialist in a particular procedure that you want because it […]
THIS TIME ON CODE WACK! Why did California’s latest single payer bill fail and what can we do about it? How can the public learn the truth about how much they could save with unified financing when deep-pocketed corporations keep […]
THIS TIME ON CODE WACK! Why is long term care, including in-home health care, in crisis? How are skyrocketing costs affecting patients? How come two-thirds of people in California who are getting in-home health care get it from family members […]
THIS TIME ON CODE WACK! How do insurance companies put up barriers to addiction treatments? How does this affect treatment programs and their clients? And how would it be if we had Medicare for All? To find out, we spoke to […]
THIS TIME ON CODE WACK! What are some of the most common misconceptions about people who are addicted to substances like opioids? What medicines are revolutionizing the way people are being treated today – and how accessible are they? To find […]
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 […]