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Boo and Vote Local!
In case youve been asleep or under a rock for the past six months, we need to let you know two things: First, Kendrick won his beef with Drake, and second, there is a presidential election coming up.
Medical Debt in the I.O.U.SA
The United States is unique among industrialized nations. Lucky for us, we can accumulate medical debt! Most industrialized and some developing nations have national healthcare programs that guarantee
Episode 102: Committable
Usually on the Medicare for All Podcast, we talk about people who want healthcare but cant get it, but today were talking about people getting healthcare they have specifically refused: folks who ha
Project 2025 Will Kill Us All
If theres one thing everyone is talking about these days, its JD Vances affinity for couches. But if there are two things everyone is talking about, its Vances couches and Project 2025. You may b
“Hot Virus Summer”: The Next Pandemic
Its our 100th episode folks, and we are celebrating the only way we know how by sharing our predictions of the grim, apocalyptic future that surely awaits us if we fail to get our healthcare system
The View from Capitol Hill: A Very Special Conference Episode
It's the most wonderful time of the year! For activists in the movement to make Medicare for All a reality, this is the week when we gather to plot, scheme, and kvetch. Welcome to the 2024 Annual Medi
Dude, Where’s My Union Health Plan?
We are in the middle of a resurgence of organized labor in the US. From Amazon workers to auto workers and grad students to baristas at Starbucks, everyone is getting in on the action! One of the big
Mental Health & For-Profit Insurance: A Deadly Combo
The U.S. is wrestling with a massive mental health crisis - impacting young people in particular. Half of young adults and one-third of all adults report that they always feel anxious or have often fe
Cyberattacks, Messaging Wars, and the Capitalist Hellscape
We hear it over and over again the private sector just does it better. Whether were talking education or healthcare or our criminal justice system, the default Republican (and sometimes Democratic)
The Battle of the Letters: Medicare Advantage
Occasional fistfights aside, most of our legislators make the choice to use their words when theyre angry, and a lot of those words go into public letters they write to presidents, officials, and eve