Biden’s 1st 100 Days on Healthcare
We discuss Biden’s American Families Plan proposal, which Biden unveiled in his first State of the Union address last week (spoiler: it’s rather under...
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Benjamin Day and Stephanie Nakajima of Healthcare-NOW break down everything you need to know about the social movement to make healthcare a right in the United States. Medicare for All!
The Koch Brothers: Behind New Strategy Against M4A?
We talk with Ben Palmquist from Partners for Dignity & Rights about a new anti-single payer bill in the Florida state legislature that would require a...
New York: Majority Support in House and Senate for M4A
In January, the Campaign for New York Health made single payer history in the United States: the bill secured the support of a majority of co-sponsors...
Record-Breaking Launch of the Medicare for All Act
Rep. Pramila Jayapal re-introduced the Medicare for All bill last week with a record 112 original cosponsors - up now to 114. We talk about surprise s...
The 2021 Medicare for All Bill
We’re joined by Stephanie Kang, Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Health Policy Director, to discuss the upcoming 2021 Medicare for All bill, which will be short...
The Road to a Floor Vote on Medicare for All
In the House, we have about half of the cosponsors we need to pass Medicare for All. Democrats who are not currently cosponsors (and constitute the ot...
Healthcare in the Netherlands: Public or Private?
Is the supposedly “private" Netherlands healthcare system a model for the US? And what would it take, politically and in terms of concrete policy, to ...
Racial Justice and Medicare for All
This week we chat with Dr. Bita Amani, an epidemiologist and Associate Professor for Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and Lead Co-Ch...
Should we support the individual mandate?
Public Citizen’s Eagan Kemp joins us as we dive into the history of the individual mandate (spoiler: it’s a conservative idea), why it disproportionat...
US Mail Not for Sale: The Fight for the USPS
This is how intertwined the Medicare for All and public mail movements are: if we had a national single payer system in place for the last decade, the...