We survey the extremely messy history that led to the passage of original Medicare, the role private insurers and other industry groups played in its creation, and some of its unintended consequences we live with to this day.

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Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.”

Note: intro from Artie ends at 0:03:30

Transcript:
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This episode was originally released on February 29th, 2024 and we're re-releasing it today to mark nearly six months since Bushnell's action against the still ongoing genocide. 

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Death Panel 497 re-air Legitimate Protest and the Construction of "Reason" w/ Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu

Legitimate Protest and the Construction of "Reason" w/ Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu

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Beatrice speaks with Kareem Rabie about how capitalist visions for “the day after” ceasefire often rely on economic development projects that act as an extension of settler colonialism, Rabie’s research on housing development projects in the West Bank in 2005-2009, and his 2021 book, Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank.

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12 August 2024

Death Panel 533 Teaser - State Building, Development Ideology and Debt in the West Bank w/ Kareem Rabie (08/12/24)

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Beatrice and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care.

Transcript forthcoming.

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and how the threat of mask bans goes far beyond public health: mask bans embolden racist policing; they’re anti-trans; and they target the whole of the left.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mask-bans-are-everyones-fight

Watch the full Nassau County mask ban hearing here:
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Death Panel Mask Bans Are Everyone’s Fight (08/22/24)

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Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer, the historical and material links between the rise of the immigration detention system and mass incarceration, and her new book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition.

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Death Panel 536 Teaser - Unbuild Walls w/ Silky Shah (08/26/24)

Teaser - Unbuild Walls w/ Silky Shah (08/26/24)

Beatrice speaks with Betsy Ladyzhets of The Sick Times about what wastewater surveillance does—and doesn’t—tell us about the level of covid spread and how the rise of covid wastewater monitoring fits inside the larger picture of the privatization of both covid risk and covid data.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/promises-and-perils-of-wastewater-data

Find Betsy’s report, “Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19 keeps evolving. Here’s what you need to know” here:
https://thesicktimes.org/2024/07/23/wastewater-surveillance-for-covid-19-keeps-evolving-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

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Death Panel The Promise and Perils of Wastewater Data w/ Betsy Ladyzhets (08/29/24)

The Promise and Perils of Wastewater Data w/ Betsy Ladyzhets (08/29/24)

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Beatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier forms of asylums and mental hospitals, with a particular focus on two groups active in the 1960s and 1970s: Institutional Psychotherapy in France and Democratic Psychiatry in Italy.

Find Sasha's book, Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt, here: https://www.commonnotions.org/storming-bedlam

Transcript forthcoming.

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Death Panel 507 Storming Bedlam w/ Sasha Warren

Storming Bedlam w/ Sasha Warren

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Beatrice speaks with Victoria Law about how prisons and jails have acted as vectors of covid transmission throughout the pandemic, the experiences of people on the inside from early in the pandemic through fights happening now over long covid in incarcerated people, and why it’s still not too late to bring back a common demand from 2020: to free them all for public health.

Find Victoria's book, Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration, here:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-corridors-of-contagion

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Death Panel 539 Teaser - Corridors of Contagion w/ Victoria Law (09/09/24)

Teaser - Corridors of Contagion w/ Victoria Law (09/09/24)

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the political economy of the pandemic and how organizing around covid and long covid intersects with priorities in movements across the left, including labor struggles and economic justice, disability justice, and abolition.

Transcript forthcoming.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago. We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Recordings and transcripts of those sessions will be released over the coming weeks. More info in the intro stinger at the beginning of this episode, which ends at 0:02:30.

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Death Panel The Political Economy Of Covid (DP x S24) (09/12/24)

The Political Economy Of Covid (DP x S24) (09/12/24)

Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about the demands of the growing tenants movement, why so-called “affordable housing” policies fail to keep people in their homes, and why we need to abolish rent once and for all.

Tracy and Leonardo are the authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, out next week: 
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent

Transcript forthcoming.

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Death Panel 542 Abolish Rent w/ Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (09/19/24)

Abolish Rent w/ Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (09/19/24)

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