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Episode 121: Free Market Healthcare Doesn’t Work

March 15, 2025 by Joe Sparks

Episode 121: Free Market Healthcare Doesn’t Work is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Tune In. In this episode, Ali Velshi, a capitalist, explains why a free market healthcare system will never work. Velshi is from Canada and was a journalist on CNBC and before moving to MSNBC. Velshi’s explanation is from “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” Do … [Read more...]

Episode 118: The Murders not Being Discussed in the Health Care Debate

December 15, 2024 by Joe Sparks

Episode 118: The Murders not Being Discussed in the Health Care Debate is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Tune In. Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why the 76,000 unnecessary deaths of our current healthcare system could be considered murders. … [Read more...]

Episode 99: Clarifying a Few Points

June 1, 2023 by Joe Sparks

Episode 99: Clarifying a Few Points is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Tune In. Do not miss this episode as 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. … [Read more...]

Episode 93: Fifty Years of Failure

March 1, 2023 by Joe Sparks

Episode 93: Fifty Years of Failure is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Tune In. Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks discusses 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 … [Read more...]

Episode 90: The Free Market Cannot Solve Every Problem

December 15, 2022 by Joe Sparks

Episode 90: The Free Market Cannot Solve Every Problem is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Tune In. In this episode, I discuss why a free-market healthcare system will not solve the problems in U.S. health care. I reference the following video in this episode: Single-Payer: The ONLY Fix to the For-Profit Private Insurance … [Read more...]

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