Welcome to Medicare for All Week, 2021.
Medicare for All Week is a limited event series brought to you by the Death Panel, running Feb 8 - 13, 2021. For six straight days we’re bringing you a brand new interview on building the movement for single payer and bigger demands to decomodify health.
First we speak to journalist Libby Watson about her publication Sick Note, how the press minimize systemic problems in the healthcare system, and why all our many “choices” for health insurance are terrible. Next, physician Adam Gaffney joins us to talk about how the coronavirus pandemic demonstrates the need not just for Medicare for All, but for greater public coordination of the American hospital system. Then we speak with medical geographer, Arrianna M. Planey about how for-profit health and hospital systems drive economic and racial inequality and uphold and reinforce structural racism. In our fourth interview, we speak with social epidemiologist Justin Feldman about police violence as a public health vector, and how our disorganized private healthcare systems skew data collection to obscure the negative public health effects of capitalism. Then we speak with Dean Spade about how the goals of the abolition movement and the movement for Medicare for All are intertwined, how we build power, and how Medicare for All would create a base to help us push for broader demands.
Stay tuned for the rest of the series…
[Listen to the introduction]
Medicare for All Week 2 features:
Libby Watson, author of Sick Note - a newsletter about American healthcare; Dr. Adam Gaffney, former President of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and Pulmonary Critical Care Specialist at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School; Dean Spade, Professor of Law at Seattle University and author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next) and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law; Arrianna M. Planey, Health and Medical Geographer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and Fellow in the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; Justin Feldman, Epidemiologist, Health and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights; Nathan Tankus, Research Director for the Modern Money Network and author of the Notes on the Crises - a newsletter about macroeconomics and the Coronavirus depression; Marshall Steinbaum, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at Jain Family Institute.
Graphics by Death Panel; Medicare for All Week is a Limited Event Series produced by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton exclusively for the Death Panel Podcast.
M4AW2:01 – Libby Watson on How Media Get Healthcare Wrong
M4AW2:02 – Adam Gaffney on the Pandemic and a National Health System
M4AW2:03 – Arrianna Planey on Medical Geography and the Surplus Population
M4AW:04 – Justin Feldman on Police Violence and Social Murder
M4AW2:05 – Dean Spade on Mobilization and the Limits of the Law
M4AW2:06 – Nathan Tankus & Marshall Steinbaum on How to Pay for Medicare for All
Welcome to Medicare for All Week, 2020.
Medicare for All Week is a limited event series brought to you by the Death Panel, running Feb 3 - 11, 2020. Originally airing one interview per day, every day, between Iowa and New Hampshire, the Death Panel brings you fresh content from some of our favorite voices on single payer, the state of care in America, and the broader fight for health justice.
This year’s inaugural Medicare for All Week features:
Dr. Adam Gaffney, President of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and Pulmonary Specialist at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School; Libby Watson, staff writer at The New Republic; Vivian Negron, Veteran Medical Receptionist with 37 Years Experience; O.K. Fox, Art & Labor Podcast; Leslie Lee III, Struggle Session Podcast; Bryan Quimby, Street Fight Radio; Todd, Beep Beep Lettuce Podcast; Steve Way, comedian and actor on Hulu’s Ramy; Ryan Grim, D.C. Bureau Chief of The Intercept and author of We’ve Got People; Michael Lighty, Health Care Constituency Director for the Bernie Sanders Campaign and former Policy Director for National Nurses United (NNU); Dr. Victoria Dooley, Family Medicine Physician in Metro Detroit and 2020 National Surrogate for the Bernie Sanders Campaign; and Tim Faust, author of Health Justice Now.
Illustrations by Lisa Larson-Walker; Graphics by Death Panel; Medicare for All Week is a Limited Event Series produced by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton exclusively for the Death Panel Podcast.
