This program focuses on Single-Payer Health Care (Medicare for All): from the reintroduction of CalCare in 2023 to other Health Care news and topics.
Tune in for empowering interviews with intriguing guests and engaging conversations about how we can work together for Health Care Justice.

12/8/22 - CalCare Principle #1 with Baba Akili - HC4US on KPFK 90.7FM

12/22/22 - CalCare Principle #2 with Kip Sullivan - HC4US on KPFK 90.7FM

1/12/23 - CalCare Principle #3 with Ron Birnbaum- HC4US on KPFK 90.7FM

1/26/23 - CalCare Principle #4 w/ DSA-LA - HC4US on KPFK 90.7FM

2/9/23 - CalCare Principle #5 w/ Jeanna Harris, BSN, RN, PHN, CCM

2/23/23 - CalCare Principle #6 w/ CNA's Ryan Skolnick

3/9/23 - CalCare Principle #7 w/ PANA's David Monkawa

3/23/23 - CalCare Gold Standard

4/13/23 - CalCare AB 1690 vs. SB 770 w/ Tsukuru Fore

In this episode, HC4US hosts Dr. Jerome Hoffman where he discusses his experience in our broken healthcare system and his fight for healthcare justice.

Dr. Jerome Hoffman has a prolific career in medicine as an emergency physician, professor, toxicologist, researcher and lecturer.  He is the recipient of numerous awards and has been the keynote speaker for meetings on five continents.  Currently active in the Santa Barbara chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, Dr. Hoffman is also the California Coordinator of Students for a National Health Program.

Our show airs every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 1 PM PST and archived shows can be found at HC4US - SoundCloud.  We invite you to be part of the conversation by calling 818-986-5735.  If you’re not in the Los Angeles area you can still catch the radio show by live stream on our website or at KPFK.org.  Can’t listen in real time?

We will not be on the air on December 25th.

12/12/23 - Dr. Jerome Hoffman and the Fight for Healthcare Justice

On this episode, your host Taiji T. Miyagawa is a third-generation Japanese American with over four decades of experience as a grassroots empowerment activist and musician.  A California native, he comes from a lineage of U.S. citizens who were stripped of their constitutional rights and imprisoned during World War II for no crime other than being Japanese.  Taiji leads API for CalCare (http://APIforCalCare.com).

Taiji’s guest is Dara Yin of Khmer (Cambodian) descent who grew up in Long Beach, California.  He is a program specialist for API RISE (http://www.API-Rise.org) and works to empower the community to fight against racism, marginalization and separatism.

Dara was sent to prison at the age of 19 under a “Life Without Parole” sentence.  In 2022 his sentence was commuted to 18-years-to-life.  As he had been in prison for 20 years, the Board of Paroles determined Dara was suitable for re-entry.  He has been home since November 2022.  

Currently pursuing a Master of Education in Learning Design and Technology degree at University of Southern CA, Dara believes that education is the answer to ending poverty, systemic racism and violence.  

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Our Health Care for US show airs at our new time, EVERY FRIDAY MORNING at 7:30am (PST) on 90.7 KPFK (http://kpfk.org) in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM Santa Barbara.  Our radio show is also live streamed on http://kpfk.org and our website (http://hc4us.org), with recording made available here on SoundCloud (@HC4US).

For future HC4US shows, we want you to join the conversation by calling in live to the show at 818-985-5735.  You can also email your questions or tips to communications@hc4us.org.

03/21/2025 - HC4US show with host Taiji Miyagawa and guest Dara Yin (API RISE)

Health Care for US (HC4US) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization of volunteers championing California single-payer health care. HC4US advocates for comprehensive, high-quality universal health care through single-payer public financing. Our goal is to guarantee health care as a human right for ALL California residents, advancing the larger fight for health care justice and energizing the implementation of national Single Payer/Medicare for All.

03/21/2025 - HC4US show with host Taiji Miyagawa and guest Dara Yin (API RISE)

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