Wall Street's Latest Attack on Traditional Medicare
What’s the latest move to sell off traditional Medicare to venture capital and private equity? How will this affect your health care? Join host Brenda...
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We’re calling Code WACK! on America’s healthcare system, where the prognosis is grim and the stakes are high. Join HEAL California as we chat with experts, doctors and patients, exploring the challenges they face and possible remedies.
The Disadvantages of Medicare Advantage
Despite the barrage of television commercials touting Medicare Advantage, is it really superior to traditional Medicare? How do the two programs diffe...
Is California's healthcare future in the hands of a commission?
What essential coverage could Improved Medicare for All offer seniors that they can’t get through original Medicare? And what’s California up to when ...
Making Medicare Even Better? The Promise of Improved Medicare for All
What was health care like for American seniors before we had Medicare? How has Medicare helped keep retirees out of poverty? What are the gaps in Medi...
Decolonizing Health Care
What is the connection between colonization and the American healthcare system? How has systemic exploitation impacted the health of the most vulnerab...
INFLAMED: Colonialism, Climate Change & Health Care
Is there a link between inflammation of the Earth and inflammation in our bodies? What about the disparate impact of climate change on BIPOC communiti...
Fighting for life in America's healthcare rabbit hole
What if you got a really terrible diagnosis in your mid-40s? ”Terrible” as in “unimaginably expensive?” “Terrible” as in “terminal?” Would you want to...
Heartless Denial: HIV Discrimination & Organ Transplants
It’s tough enough to be born with a genetic predisposition to heart disease. Tougher still to suffer advanced heart failure at 43. Then add in an HIV ...
'Centuries of Inequities' & the COVID Crisis
How has America’s lack of a national, coordinated response to COVID affected us? What about the attacks on America’s public sector? Why did simply hav...
Medicine's undeniable role in U.S. racism
How is racism baked into American society? What role has medicine played in propagating it? How does racism in health care affect Black and indigenou...