Episode 39: How Medicare Integrated Hospitals is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Tune In. 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 … [Read more...]

Episode 38: Health Inequality and Physical Structure is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Tune In. My guest, Gracie Himmelstein, and her sister, Kathryn Himmelstein, MD, cowrote a paper, “Inequality Set in Concrete,” which examines how unequal hospital facilities and capital assets contribute to ongoing racial … [Read more...]

Episode 37: A Living Wage Home Cleaning Company and COVID-19 is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Tune In. My guest, Aaron Seyedian, is originally from a small town in Western New York and has lived in the Washington, DC area for nearly 15 years. He created Well-Paid Maids to help bolster the living-wage movement … [Read more...]

Episode 36: We don’t have a health care system in the United States is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Tune In. My guest, Prof. Daniel Skinner, Ph.D., teaches health policy at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. He covers Medicaid reform, Medicare financing, and issues surrounding … [Read more...]

Episode 35: Racial Inequities: COVID-19 has essentially ripped the cover off of some of the deepest cracks in our current healthcare system is now available on Podbean, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Tune In. My guest, Dr. Ashley Duhon, is a recent New Orleans area medical school graduate. Over the past four years of medical school, … [Read more...]