Medicare for All Week 2021

Welcome to Medicare for All Week 2021, our second annual limited series on building the movement for health justice. Every day from February 8-13 we'll be airing a new interview on single payer and the need for a national health system in America. 

In this brief episode, we announce this year's lineup, introduce this year's series, and tease some of what's to come this week.

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Libby Watson joins us to discuss how the way the press frames healthcare stories obscures systemic problems with our healthcare system, and the issues with limiting our demands to incremental reforms.

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This interview is part of Medicare for All Week 2021, our second annual limited series on building the movement for health justice. Every day from February 8-13 we'll be airing a new interview on single payer and the need for a national health system in America. 

To support Death Panel and make series like Medicare for All Week possible, become a patron at patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Episode Transcript: http://bit.ly/M4AWeek-LibbyWatson-Transcript [PDF] https://www.deathpanel.net/m4aw201-libby-watson [html]

Libby Watson On How Media Get Healthcare Wrong (Medicare for All Week 2021)

Adam Gaffney joins us to discuss how the pandemic has highlighted the need for Medicare for All and more comprehensive coordination of healthcare resource distribution.

Adam Gaffney is the most recent past president of Physicians for a National Health Program and a pulmonary specialist at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School.

This interview is part of Medicare for All Week 2021, our second annual limited series on building the movement for health justice. Every day from February 8-13 we'll be airing a new interview on single payer and the need for a national health system in America.

To support Death Panel and make series like Medicare for All Week possible, become a patron at patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Episode Transcript: bit.ly/M4AWeek-AdamGaffney-Transcript [PDF] twww.deathpanel.net/m4aw202-adam-gaffney [html]

Adam Gaffney On The Pandemic And A National Health System (Medicare for All Week 2021)

Arrianna Planey joins us to discuss the how the distribution and rationing of healthcare in the United States is closely tied to property relations, systemic racism and ableism, and capitalist market frameworks.

Arrianna Planey is a medical geographer and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health.

This interview is part of Medicare for All Week 2021, our second annual limited series on building the movement for health justice. Every day from February 8-13 we'll be airing a new interview on single payer and the need for a national health system in America.

To support Death Panel and make series like Medicare for All Week possible, become a patron at patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Episode Transcript: bit.ly/M4AWeek-ArriannaPlaney-Transcript [PDF] www.deathpanel.net/m4aw203-arrianna-planey [html]

Arrianna Planey On Medical Geography And The Surplus Population (Medicare for All Week 2021)

Justin Feldman joins us to discuss the how state violence operates as a public health vector and how the politics of medicalization and data production interact with the carceral system.

Justin Feldman is an epidemiologist of social inequality and state violence and a Health & Human Rights Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard.

This interview is part of Medicare for All Week 2021, our second annual limited series on building the movement for health justice. Every day from February 8-13 we'll be airing a new interview on single payer and the need for a national health system in America.

To support Death Panel and make series like Medicare for All Week possible, become a patron at patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Episode Transcript: bit.ly/M4AWeek-JustinFeldman-Transcript [PDF] www.deathpanel.net/m4aw204-justin-feldman [html]

Justin Feldman On Police Violence And Social Murder (Medicare for All Week 2021)

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. 

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