Health Care at Best of the Left

#1328 Iraq, Citizens United, Obamacare, The Tea Party and The Deepwater Horizon (A Look Back at 2010)

Posted on Podcast by · January 14, 2020 4:47 PM

Air Date: 1–14-2020

Today we take a look back at the year 2010 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 2010 was an enormous year of news and I've been working on this episode so long that I can hardly remember life before I started.

#1316 Winning the messaging war for a just, moral health care system

Posted on Podcast by · November 01, 2019 6:00 PM

Air Date: 11–1-2019

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Today we take a look at how the debate over our health care system has been framed and how we should frame it.

#1291 The Life and Death Politics of Health Care

Posted on Podcast by · July 23, 2019 11:00 AM

Air Date: 7–23-2019

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Today we take a look at the fight for Medicare for All through the lens of the Democratic Primary elections.

#1260 Gearing up for the fight for Medicare for All

Posted on Podcast by · March 29, 2019 8:00 PM

Air Date: 3–29-2019

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Today we take a look at the history of why we don't already have Medicare for All, just a handful of the overwhelming reasons why we need it and the fight ahead to make it a reality

#1238 Bailouts, Tea Parties, Torture, Fear, Health Care and Citizens United (A Look Back at 2009)

Posted on Podcast by · January 04, 2019 6:00 PM

Air Date: 1/4/2018

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Today we take a look back at the year 2009 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn.

#1207 Bleeding us to death (Health Care Costs)

Posted on Podcast by · September 04, 2018 6:00 AM · 1 reaction

Air Date: 9–4-2018

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Today we take a look at many of the underlying reasons that health care in America is so expensive and how those who benefit from the status quo work to keep it that way.

#1192 Fighting for Single Payer and against our neoliberal health system

Posted on Podcast by · June 26, 2018 6:00 PM

Air Date: 6–26-2018

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Today we take a look at the misguided transformation of our thinking about health care that causes us to accept the idea of it being a market-based commodity, who continues to support this idea and why it continues to make suckers of us all

#1145 A government small enough to get inside your body (Reproductive Justice)

Posted on Podcast by · November 11, 2017 6:00 PM

Air Date: 11–11-2017

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Today we look at the many ways conservatives across the country are systematically chipping away at the rights of all people who require access to any kind of reproductive health services

#1136 Doing the Right Thing After Exhausting All Other Options (Medicare For All)

Posted on Podcast by · September 29, 2017 6:00 PM

Air Date: 9-29-2017

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Today we look at the Bernie-Sanders-lead movement to implement the most comprehensive universal health insurance system in the world

#1115 An enormous tax cut for the rich disguised as health care

Posted on Podcast by · June 27, 2017 6:00 PM

Air Date: 6-27-2017

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Today we take a look at the enormous amount of damage the latest version of the GOPs vision of health care would inflict on the nation and keep our eye on the ultimate goal of a Medicare-For-All system