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Episode 119: Ending Medical Debt – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why removing medical debt from credit reports is not an effective way to deal with medical debt and how we can end medical debt. January 15, 2025
Episode 118: The Murders not Being Discussed in the Health Care Debate – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why the 76,000 unnecessary deaths of our current healthcare system could be considered murders. December 15, 2024
Episode 117: Will Health Care Get Even Worse in the United States – In this episode host Joe Sparks host Joe Sparks explains why health care is likely to become more expensive under Donald Trump. November 15, 2024
Episode 116: The Curse of Medical Debt – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why medical debt is much larger problem than most people think. October 15, 2024
Episode 115: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Health Records – In this episode host Joe Sparks discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of electronic health records and why we often depend on faxes to transfer health data. September 15, 2024
Episode 114: Amazed by Free Health Care and Why We Need Medicare for All – Olympian Ariana Ramsey decided to try out the free health care at the 2024 Olympics in Paris and was “amazed” by it. Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks how the U.S. can end being amazed by free health care and make it a normal Experience. August 15, 2024
Episode 113: The Missing Criteria for Health Insurance Companies – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains that health insurance companies are concerned with profits and are using AI to increase profits by denying care. Instead, insurance companies should be evaluated on how well they cover costs for treatment. July 15, 2024
Episode 112: The Harm Caused by Medicare Advantage – In this episode host Joe Sparks discusses a report by Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) that documents the harmful effects of Medicare Advantage. June 15, 2024
Episode 111: We Don’t Need Medicare Advantage – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why Medicare Advantage is not needed and is detrimental to Medicare. May 15, 2024
Episode 110: We Don’t Need Health Insurance Companies – In this episode as host Joe Sparks discusses why we don’t need health insurance companies. April 15, 2024
Episode 109: Some Really Good Reasons Why We Need Medicare For All – In this episode host Joe Sparks explicates some good reasons why we need Medicare for All and comments on some of the disinformation regarding Medicare for All. March 15, 2024
Episode 108: A Prologue to the Future – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why the University of Delaware freezing hiring, pausing projects and curbing projects is a prologue to the future in the United States if we keep our current healthcare system. February 15, 2024
Episode 107: A Traditional Medicare Benefit – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why Medicare makes it easier to move to a different state. January 15, 2024
Episode 106: Medicare for All Audio Bullet Points – In this episode host Joe Sparks uses audio bullet points to explain why we need Medicare for All. December 15, 2023
Episode 105: People’s Action and Healthcare for All – My guest, Aija Nemer-Aanerud, is the Healthcare for All Campaign Director at People’s Action. They describe People’s Action’s goals, and how Healthcare for All fits into their overall purpose. They also describe what People’s Action is currently emphasizing in healthcare. November 15, 2023
Episode 104: The U.S. Has the Worst Healthcare System Among Wealthy Nations – In this episode host Joe Sparks discusses some of the reports that show the U.S. has the worst healthcare system among wealthy nations. October 15, 2023
Episode 103: Why Medicare for All Is Better Than Direct Contracting – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why Medicare for All is better than direct contracting. September 15, 2023
Episode 102: Why Medicare for All Will Provide More Freedom – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why Medicare for All provides more freedom than private health insurance plans. August 15, 2023
Episode 101: Drowning, Guns, Healthcare and What People Say – In this episode host Joe Sparks explains why the response to drownings, gun violence, and healthcare is to let people die and why we need to change that. July 15, 2023
Episode 100: Bubble-Up Economics – In this episode, host Joe Sparks expands the discussion beyond Medicare for All and discusses why we need to take a “bubble-up” approach to the economy. June 11, 2023 (This is the June 15, 2023 episode published a few days early.)
Episode 99: Clarifying a Few Points – In this episode, host Joe Sparks explains why the free-market will always result in a market failure for healthcare and why the free-market will never provide a viable solution for healthcare. June 1, 2023
Episode 98: The Reintroduction of Medicare for All Bills and Why We Need Medicare for All – Host Joe Sparks informs that the Medicare for All Act bills will be reintroduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate on May 17, 2023, and summarizes some of the reasons why we need Medicare for All. May 15, 2023
Episode 97: Some Changes Needed in Our Current Healthcare System – Host Joe Sparks explains why certain companies should not be allowed to assist or advise the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, why we need to track denial of care by health insurance companies, why physicians deserve a rate increase from Medicare, and why health insurance companies don’t. May 1, 2023
Episode 96: Why Does the Government Keep Letting Medicare Advantage Plan Companies Off the Hook – In this episode, host Host Joe Sparks explains why, in his opinion, Medicare Advantage plan companies are like bank robbers that the government supports and what needs to be done to stop these bank robbers. April 15, 2023
Episode 95: Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Automatic Denials – In this episode, my guest Julie Baak explains how Pharmacy Benefit Managers and automatic denials harm patients. April 1, 2023
Episode 94: Why Doesn’t the Government Provide the Same Help to People Who Are Denied Care? – In this episode, host Joe Sparks asks why the government doesn’t provide the same quick help to people who are denied care by health insurance companies as it did to the Silicon Valley Bank depositors. March 15, 2023
Episode 93: Fifty Years of Failure – In this episode, I discuss how the HMO Act of 1973 led to fifty years of failure and caused the U.S. to end up with the most expensive healthcare system in the world while having the worst overall health outcomes of wealthy nations. March 1, 2023
Episode 92: More on ACO REACH and Why We Need to End It – In this episode, my guest is Ed Weisbart, MD, and he explains some basics about ACO REACH, why we need to end it, how to end it, why it is a threat to seniors and Medicare, and why we should be optimistic about working to end REACH. February 15, 2023
Episode 91: End ACO REACH – In this episode, host Joe Sparks discusses why we need to end the Medicare ACO REACH program. ACO REACH or REACH is a program that transfers people from traditional Medicare to private health insurance. February 1, 2023
Episode 90: The Free Market Cannot Solve Every Problem – In this episode, I discuss why a free-market healthcare system will not solve the problems in U.S. health care. December 15, 2022
Episode 89: The Security Threat of Our Current Healthcare System – We would demand action if a foreign adversary caused more than 76,000 deaths like the current U.S. healthcare system does. However, we continue to allow these deaths. We need to take action to end the carnage. November 15, 2022
Episode 88: Why We Need Single-payer Medicare for All in the United States – In this episode, I discuss some important reasons why we need Medicare for All. November 1, 2022
Episode 87: The Illogic and Fraud of Medicare Advantage Plans – In this episode, I discuss Medicare Advantage fraud and why the reasons for starting Medicare Advantage made no sense. October 15, 2022
Episode 86: Medicare: A Complicated Mess – In this episode, I discuss why Medicare is a complicated mess, how to make it better, and why single-payer Medicare for All would be better for seniors and everyone else. October 1, 2022
Episode 85: The American Healthcare Mess – In this episode, my guest, Gilbert Simon, MD, Dr. discusses the waste, inefficiency and profiteering that currently exists in the American healthcare system. Dr. Simon wrote “Ripped Off!: Overtested, Overtreated and Overcharged, the American Healthcare Mess.” Correction: Dr. Simon said that we are “spending about 12 and a half dollars per capita” on health care. The correct figure is 12 and a half thousand dollars per capita. September 14, 2022
Episode 84: Puerto Rico’s History of Single-Payer – In this episode, my guest, Carlo Bosques discusses Puerto Rico’s former universal healthcare system, and how it was more effective than Puerto Rico’s current privatized health care system. September 1, 2022
Episode 83: Why Medicare For All Is Cool! – In this episode, I describe what makes single-payer Medicare for All cool. In brief, it is cool because people get the medical care and prescription drugs they need when they need it without having to worry about cost. August 15, 2022
Episode 82: Electronic Health Records and Interchangeable Data – In this episode, my guest, A Jay Holmgren, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco and the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research. He discusses how Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems that can exchange data will help patients. August 1, 2022
Episode 81: Little Things That Can Make a Difference – In this episode, I discuss how interchangeable health data and how the government figuring taxes would save time and money for most people. July 15, 2022
Episode 80: A Catastrophic Ruling: The Overturning of Guaranteed Abortion Access – In this episode, my guest, Diljeet Singh, MD, is board certified in OB/GYN and Gynecologic Oncology. She discusses discusses how ending women’s guaranteed right to abortions will seriously harm women’s health. July 1, 2022
Episode 79: Gun Violence and Public Health in the U.S. – In this episode, I discuss gun violence and why gun violence, what can be done about it, and why it is a serious public health threat in the United States. June 15, 2022
Episode 78: Public Health, Single-Payer and the American Public Health Association – In this episode, my guest, Anthony Spadaro, MD, MPH, discusses what public health is and why the American Public Health Association endorsed single-payer health care.
Episode 77: The Healthcare Skin-in-the-Game Myth – In this episode, I discuss why the assumption that people need to have skin in the game in healthcare is false and harmful to getting medical care. May 15, 2022
Episode 76: Achieving the Cancer Moonshot in 10 Years – My guest, Diljeet Singh, MD, is board certified in OB/GYN and Gynecologic Oncology. She discusses how we could achieve the goals of Pres. Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot” in 10 years or less with Medicare for All. May 1, 2022
Episode 75: Jeffrey Sachs Testimony from the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Medicare for All – In this episode, I play the testimony of Jeffrey Sachs, PhD. Dr. Sachs is an economics professor at Columbia University, and he makes important points about the U.S. healthcare system. The data shows that our results are worse than other nations and costs way more. April 15, 2022
Episode 74: Highlights from the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Medicare for All – The House Oversight and Reform Committee had a hearing on “Examining Pathways to Universal Health Coverage,” and Medicare for All was a large part of that discussion. I highlight the testimony of a Representative and witnesses who explain why they support Medicare for All. April 2, 2022
Episode 73: Some Survey Results on Why Having Health Insurance Doesn’t Mean Squat – In this episode, I discuss a recent survey that shows why having health insurance often doesn’t mean squat, and I review the survey results that show some of the economic harm caused by the U.S. health insurance system. March 15, 2022
Episode 72: Well-Known and Lesser-Known Problems With Our Healthcare System – In this episode, I discuss some of the well-known and lesser-known problems with the United States healthcare system. I start by discussing how federal law requires the states to seek reimbursement from Medicaid beneficiaries’ estates upon their deaths in certain cases, and then discuss other problems in our healthcare system. March 1, 2022
Episode 71: Medicare for All Changes That Will Make Your Life Better – In this episode, I describe some changes under Medicare for All that will make lives better and why these changes make Medicare for All the best choice for better healthcare in the United States. February 15, 2022
Episode 70: How a Conservative Came to Support Single-payer Healthcare – In this episode, my guest, Joseph Jarvis, MD, explains how and why he came to support Medicare for All. February 1, 2022
Episode 69: Highlights, Volume 3 – In this episode, I wish to honor Martin Luther King Jr. by highlighting important clips from Medicare for All Explained about racism in the U.S. healthcare system and how Medicare for All can reduce the racism that exists in health care. January 15, 2022
Episode 68: How Tragedy Created a Single-Payer Advocate – My quest, Scott Desnoyers, discusses why he became a supporter and advocate for single-payer health care after tragedy struck his family, and his story provides a powerful lesson on why we need Medicare for All. December 14, 2021
Episode 67: Why We Need Universal Continuous Healthcare From Birth – My guest, Judith Albert, MD, explains why we need a universal continuous healthcare system in the United States. November 15, 2021
Episode 66: Our Insidious and Nefarious Healthcare System – My guest, Scott Goldberg, MD, describes why he supports Medicare for All to end our insidious and nefarious healthcare system. November 1, 2021
Episode 65: Our Healthcare Mess and Why We Need Medicare for All – In this episode, I describe the current problems with the United States healthcare system, what is Medicare for All, and how Medicare for All can solve those problems. It is a good primer on some problems with the U.S. healthcare system and why we need Medicare for All. October 1, 2021
Episode 64: Highlights, Volume 2 – In this episode, I take clips that highlight important points about Medicare for All. September 15, 2021
Episode 63: Entrepreneurs and Medicare For All – My guest, Prof. Jerome Katz, examines how healthcare decisions affect entrepreneurship. Prof Katz is an internationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education, and is the Director of Saint Louis University’s highly ranked entrepreneurship program. September 1, 2021
Episode 62: Women’s Health and Reproductive Justice – My guest, Dr. Ashley Duhon, explains how reproductive justice relates to women’s health. Aug. 15, 2021
Episode 61: To Be or Not to Be Health Insurance, That Is the Tricare Question – My guest, Miryam Weisberg, describes her struggles to get medical treatment for her genetic disorder, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, under the Tricare system. August 1, 2021
Episode 60: Highlights, Volume 1 – In this episode, I take clips that highlight important points about Medicare for All. July 15, 2021
Episode 59: Medicaid Expansion, Missouri, and the Will of the People – My guest, Traci Gleason, is Vice President, External Relations for the Missouri Budget Project. She explains how Medicaid Expansion would help Missourians and would save the state money. July 1, 2021
Episode 58: What You Need To Know About Medicare, Medigap, Medicare (Dis)Advantage, and How Medicare for All Benefits Seniors, Part 2 – My guest, Diane Archer, is an expert on Medicare. She discusses critical information that everyone needs to know about Medicare and how Medicare for All would be better for seniors. June 15, 2021
Episode 57: What You Need To Know About Medicare, Medigap, Medicare (Dis)Advantage, And How Medicare for All Benefits Seniors, Part 1 – My guest, Diane Archer, is an expert on Medicare. She discusses critical information that everyone needs to know about Medicare whether they are on Medicare, close to getting Medicare, or have parents who are on or close to getting Medicare. June 1, 2021
Episode 56: How Medicare For All Would Benefit People With Disabilities and the LGBTQIA Community – My guest, Rosie Bean, is part of the LGBTQIA community and a disabled individual. This has made the fight for justice personal for Rosie. Find out how getting SSDI changed Rosie’s life and Medicare for all will people with disabilities and the LGBTQIA community. May 15, 2021
Episode 55: Racism Is a Public Health Threat – My guest, Ronald Wyatt, MD, was the first Black chief resident at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He co-chairs the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Equity Advisory Group and is faculty for the IHI Pursuing Equity Initiative. Dr. Wyatt discusses why racism is threat to public health and what can be done to end it. April 30, 2021
Episode 54: Getting a State Medical Society to Support Medicare for All – My guest, Jane Katz Field, MD, is a retired pediatrician. She discusses her successful effort to get the Vermont Medical Society to pass a resolution supporting Medicare for All. April 15, 2021
Episode 53: Health Disparities in the US Before And After the Pandemic – My guest, Monica Maalouf, MD, is a primary care internist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. She is Co-president of Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP) Illinois and an active member of the Illinois Single-Payer Coalition. Dr. Maalouf discusses health disparities in the U.S. and how Medicare for All can help to reduce them. March 31, 2021
Episode 52: How We Can Meet the Mental Health Needs of Children and Adolescents – My guest, Claire Cohen, MD, is an African-American psychiatrist who specializes in children and adolescents. In this episode, she explains why our current health care system is not meeting the needs of people who need mental health treatment and how Medicare for All could fix many of the problems. March 15, 2021
Episode 51: Public Option, Unions, Obligation, Part 2 – My guest, James McGee, has spent his career in and around collectively bargained benefit plans, especially health care plans. In Part 2, he discusses how unions would benefit from Medicare for All and why health care is an obligation. February 28, 2021
Episode 50: Public Option, Unions, Obligation, Part 1 – My guest, James McGee, has spent his career in and around collectively bargained benefit plans, especially health care plans. In Part 1, he explains why the public option is bad for the public. February 15, 2021
Episode 49: A Local Resolution Supporting Medicare For All – My guest, Holly Hatcher, is a registered nurse in Madison, Wisconsin, and is a Dane County Board Supervisor. Ms. Hatcher was instrumental in passing a local resolution in Dane County that supported Medicare for All. January 31, 2021
Episode 48: Covid and Racial Inequities – My guest, Susan Rogers, MD, FACP, is the president of Physicians for a National Health Program. She is an assistant professor of medicine at Rush University, and previously was the co-director of medical student programs for the Department of Medicine at Stroger Hospital and has received numerous teaching awards from Stroger Hospital and Rush University. January 14, 2021
Episode 47: The U.S. Pandemic Response and How to Improve It – My guest, James G. Kahn, MD, MPH, is Emeritus Professor in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, the Institute for Global Health Sciences, and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. December 14, 2020
Episode 46: Medicaid Is Helpful; Medicare for All Would Be Better – My guest, Emily Leonard, is a Health Policy Analyst for Medicaid for the state of Maryland. Her work focuses on developing and implementing Medicaid programs to meet the unique needs of the state’s residents. Ms. Leonard grew up in a rural town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and is passionate about rural health advocacy and Medicare for All. November 15, 2020
Episode 45: Falling Back in Love With Clinical Practice – My guest, Anna Stratis, MD, is a Canadian-trained family physician. She has worked in the Canada and the U.S. She recently went back to Canada for some clinical work and shares her experience practicing medicine in Canada and the U.S. November 1, 2020
Episode 44: Why We Need the Medicare for All Act – My guest, Stephanie Kang, is the Health Policy Fellow for Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. Representative Jayapal introduced H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019, and Ms. Kang assisted in finalizing that bill. October 14, 2020
Episode 43: Disaster Preparedness and COVID-19 – My guest, Karl Kim, is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Director of the graduate program in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. Prof. Kim is currently director of the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, authorized by the U.S. Congress to develop and deliver FEMA certified training courses. September 30, 2020
Episode 42: State Level Medicare for All: Is It Possible? – My guest, Matthew Lawrence, J.D., is an Associate Professor of Law at Emory University, and specializes in health care finance, administrative law, and addictions. He has written widely on these subjects with articles published or forthcoming in several prominent law journals and possesses a wealth of experience in the federal government. September 14, 2020
Episode 41: Racism, Health Care, and Medicare for All – My guest, Sanjeev Sriram, MD, MPH, also known as Dr. America, is a pediatrician in Southeast Washington, DC, and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He discusses racism in health care, Masks for America, and the All Means All campaign. September 1, 2020
Special Communication: Systems Comparison – This special communication provides a comparison of health care systems and shows the many benefits of Medicare for All. A downloadable PDF of this chart can be found here. (Note: This may be available only on Podbean and this website.) August 31, 2020
Episode 40: Join the Fight – My guest, Chrissy Holt, discusses how her son was born was born with severe hemophilia A and declared uninsurable. His birth with a pre-existing condition immediately propelled her into volunteer advocacy. August 14, 2020
Episode 39: How Medicare Integrated Hospitals – It is a special episode to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the passage of Medicare on July 30, 1965. My guest, Dr. Barbara Berney, MPH, PhD, produced the documentary, “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.” She discusses how the creation of Medicare was used to desegregate thousands of hospitals in a few months. July 30, 2020
Episode 38: Health Inequality and Physical Structure – My guest, Gracie Himmelstein, discusses how how unequal hospital facilities and capital assets contribute to ongoing racial disparities in health. July 15, 2020
Episode 37: A Living Wage Home Cleaning Company and COVID-19 – My guest, Aaron Seyedian, discuss the company he founded, Well-Paid Maids and the effects of COVID-19 on his business. July 1, 2020
Episode 36: We don’t have a health care system in the United States – My guest, Daniel Skinner, teaches health policy at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and hosts the podcast “Prognosis Ohio” with WCBE, 90.5 FM, in Columbus, Ohio. June 14, 2020
Episode 35: Racial Inequities: COVID-19 has essentially ripped the cover off of some of the deepest cracks in our current healthcare system – My guest, Dr. Ashley Duhon, is a recent New Orleans area medical school graduate. She describes how COVID-19 is affecting minority groups. June 1, 2020
Episode 34: An Ongoing Issue: Drug Prices and Supplies Before and During the Pandemic – My guest, Shannon Rotolo, has her doctorate in pharmacy, and she manages high cost specialty drugs that are complex to administer. Dr. Rotolo describes the problems with drug supplies and high drug prices before and during this pandemic. May 15, 2020
Episode 33: Patients Are Just Pawns in the Game – My guest, Anna Stratis, MD, is a Canadian-trained family physician with a passion for working with people in communities and improving healthcare and quality of life. She is volunteering at a New York City hospital during the current COVID-19 crisis. May 1, 2020
Episode 32: If There’s an Argument for Medicare for All That Ought to Convince Everyone, It’s This Epidemic – My guest, David Himmelstein, MD, is a Distinguished Professor of public health and health policy in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. April 12, 2020
Episode 31: The Tremendous Good a Publicly Sponsored Insurance System Can Do – My guest is Donald Berwick, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama. March 31, 2020
Episode 30: Plain Economics: The Main Problem With Rural Health Care – My guest, Robert Devereaux, MD, practices family medicine in Pearisburg, Virginia, a rural town near the West Virginia border. March 15, 2020
Episode 29: Retrospective Denials – My guest is Martha Gaines, Director, Center for Patient Partnership (CPP); Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. March 1, 2020
Episode 28: Racial Inequities in Health Care – My guest is Susan Rogers, MD, FACP, and the president-elect of Physicians for a National Health Program. Feb. 15, 2020
Episode 27: Stop Using Health Insurance Industry Language – My guest is Ben Palmquist, Health Care Program Director for the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). Jan. 31, 2020
Episode 26: Surprise Medical Bills – My guest is Dr. Mark Krasnoff, MD. Jan. 14, 2020
Episode 25: Insurance Companies Are Practicing Medicine, And They Are Doing It in a Way That If a Doctor Did That, They Would Absolutely Lose Their License – My guest is Dr. William Bennett, MD. Dec 14, 2019
Episode 24: Why Drug Prices Are So Expensive in the United States – My guest is Prof. Donald Light. Nov. 15, 2019
Episode 23: The Average Family Is Going to Get Much More and Pay Much Less – My guest is Dr. Victoria Dooley, MD. Nov. 1, 2019
Episode 22: Mothers for Medicare for All – Part 2 – My guest is Kristen Grimm, founder of Mothers for Medicare for All. Oct. 14, 2019
Episode 21: Mothers for Medicare for All – Part 1 – My guest is Kristen Grimm, founder of Mothers for Medicare for All. Oct. 1, 2019
Episode 20: Dealing with HIV – My guest is Kenyon Farrow. Sept. 15, 2019
Episode 19: How Do We Meet the Needs of People Who Need Mental Health Services? Poorly! – My guest is psychiatrist Dr. Leslie Gise, MD. Sept. 1, 2019
Episode 18: We Can’t Truly Help People in This For-Profit System – My guest is Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant Kristy Fogle, founder of the Maryland Progressive Healthcare Coalition. Aug. 14, 2019
Episode 17: Every Shift I Would See Patients Struggling for Their Care – My guest is Jonathan Michels. Aug. 1, 2019
Episode 16: A Different Kind of Going Broke – My guest is Neil Buchanan, an economist and a professor of law. July 15, 2019
Episode 15: A Revelation – My guest is Stephanie Nakajima, Director of Communications at Healthcare-NOW. July 1, 2019
Episode 14: Health Care in Rural America – My guest is Dina van der Zalm. June 14, 2019
Episode 13: We Will Win by Building a Grassroots Movement – My guest is Max Cotterill, a community organizer with the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United. May 31, 2019
Episode 12: When You’ve Got a For-Profit System, True Care Goes Out the Window – My guest is Jean Ross, RN, and President of National Nurses United. May 14, 2019
Episode 11: Hearing Highlights – On April 30, 2019, the House Committee on Rules held the first ever hearing in Congress on Medicare for All. This episode highlights excerpts from the hearing. May 1, 2019
Episode 10: Building Solidarity – Why Seniors Should Support Medicare for All – My guest is Alex Lawson, the Executive Director of Social Security Works. April 14, 2019
Episode 9: The Economics of Health Care, Part 2: The Solution – Medicare for All – My guest is Gerald Friedman, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. March 31, 2019
Episode 8: The Economics of Health Care, Part 1: The Problem – Our Current Health Care System Is Unaffordable – My guest is Gerald Friedman, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. March 14, 2019
Episode 7: Putting Out the Fire With Medicare for All – My guest is Dr. George Bohmfalk, MD. March 1, 2019
Episode 6: We Can Conquer This Problem – My guest is Richard Master, founder and CEO of MCS Industries. Feb. 14, 2019
Episode 5: Peace of Mind – My guest is Wendell Potter. Jan. 31, 2019
Episode 4: Global Budgets: Saving Money and Increasing Simplicity – My guest is Dr. Phil Verhoef, MD. Jan. 14, 2019
Episode 3: The Manual – My guest is Dr. Nicte Mejia, MD. Jan. 1, 2019
Episode 2: The Five Es – My guest is Dr. Richard Bruno, MD. Dec. 6, 2018
Episode 1: Medicare For All, An Overview – My guest is Dr. Ed Weisbart, MD. Nov. 13, 2018