Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week.

In this session, "Health and Capital (Intro)," Beatrice and Artie discuss some ways to think about the intersection of healthcare, disability, and left politics, and introduce each of the rest of the sessions.

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Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-health-and-capital

Timecodes:

0:00 - Introduction to session recordings and thanks from the Panel

4:50 - Session recording begins

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DP x S23: Health and Capital (Session 1)

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Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week.

Session Description: The healthcare struggles of the last century have been profoundly shaped by the structures of US federalism: what resources are allocated to states, and what artificial constraints are imposed on them that produce policy in the mold of austerity? Political scientist and Death Panel podcast co-host Philip Rocco is joined by historians Gabriel Winant and Salonee Bhaman to discuss how fiscal decentralization has become an underappreciated force driving the healthcare politics of the United States, and what it can tell us about where we are now. Gabriel Winant will participate in this session remotely.

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Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-the-state-austerity-and-the-politics-of-healthcare

Find a transcript of Session 4, Decolonial Disability Politics and the Left (mentioned at the top of the episode), here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dp-x-s23-and-4-89458216

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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DP x S23: The State, Austerity, and the Politics of Healthcare (Final Session)

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Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists and the long history of RICO being used as a tool of repression against left movements.

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Runtime 1:25:39, 25 September 2023

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Death Panel 463 Teaser - RICO w/ Dan Berger (09/25/23)

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Teaser - RICO w/ Dan Berger (09/25/23)

Bea, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how the widely reported expense and unavailability of the new covid boosters is the disastrous (and predictable) consequence of the Biden administration’s move to kick covid vaccines and therapeutics to the private market.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/covid-booster-rollout-fall-2023

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Death Panel 464 Scenes from the Class Struggle at CVS (09/28/23)

Scenes from the Class Struggle at CVS (09/28/23)

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Bea 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, and tease Jules’ new book, “A Short History of Trans Misogyny,” coming in January from Verso.

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Death Panel 456 Abolish Managed Care (Unlocked)

Abolish Managed Care (Unlocked)

Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about working to build abolitionist futures in the face of rising fascism and unrelenting state violence, resisting the ongoing annihilatory campaign on Gaza, and her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. Transcript forthcoming.

Find Andrea's new book here: https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html

And two links Andrea mentions early in the episode:

"Stop Gaza Genocide," a public toolkit: https://bit.ly/StopGazaGenocide

Another toolkit to find protests and more:
https://gazaispalestine.org/

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel 475 Practicing New Worlds w/ Andrea Ritchie (11/16/23)

Practicing New Worlds w/ Andrea Ritchie (11/16/23)

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Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that echo our current pandemic.

Note: This episode is a re-air, as Artie explains in a brief clip at the beginning of the episode. We'll be back with a brand new patron episode next Monday.

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel Teaser - Immunocapitalism w/ Kathryn Olivarius

Teaser - Immunocapitalism w/ Kathryn Olivarius

As we prepare to record "Covid Year Four," Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss what is left of national covid data following the end of the public health emergency, how what's left has become so thoroughly abstracted, and how the CDC prioritizes representing deaths as an abstract percentage even as the official death count has been over 1,000 a week since August. 

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/economic-endemicity-blue

Find the NVSS data sheet mentioned early in the episode here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel 478 Economic Endemicity Blue (12/07/23)

Economic Endemicity Blue (12/07/23)

As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons.

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 3rd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.

Original description: Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that echo our current pandemic.

Transcript forthcoming.

Find Kathryn's book "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674241053

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Pre-order Jules' new book here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

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Death Panel Best of 2023: Immunocapitalism w/ Kathryn Olivarius

Best of 2023: Immunocapitalism w/ Kathryn Olivarius

As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released on August 3rd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.

Original description: Bea and Jules mark the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as part of the broader story of welfare state retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s, and the broader story of how it got this way.

Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform

Note: Sadly we lost Jules' recording to a technical issue, so this episode uses her backup track.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Pre-order Jules' new book here:
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Death Panel Best Of 2023: The ADA as Welfare Reform

Best Of 2023: The ADA as Welfare Reform

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Bea, Artie, and Phil offer their critique of "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care", a recent book from two economists—and blurbed by the likes of Emily Oster and Matt Yglesias—that promises a bold new vision for US health policy: what if we did universal healthcare, but we intentionally made it really bad?

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Runtime 1:22:26, 15 January 2024

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Death Panel 484 Teaser - "Normal Species Functioning" (01/15/24)

Teaser - "Normal Species Functioning" (01/15/24)

Carolyn Harding with Zerqa Abid, Columbus community leader and Candidate for US Congress, Ohio District 15.

Zerqa Abid is a small business owner, an award-winning nonprofit leader, and a women’s rights advocate. She is running as a Democrat for US Congress out of Ohio’s 15th congressional district against incumbent Mike Carey.

She is the Founder, President and Executive Director of the largest Muslim Social Services Organization in Ohio, MY Project USA. She served as the Greater Hilltop Area Commissioner and as the Public Safety Chair and has served more than 300,000 Ohioans and has saved thousands of children. The impact of her work in the district is about $38 million.
She has received the national AARP Purpose Prize 2023 Award, the Benefit Mutual’s Philanthropist of the Year Award 2023, The Columbus Foundation’s Outstanding Philanthropist 2021 Award and Everyday Hero 2019 Award from the Dispatch Media Group for her outstanding work.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of North Carolina State University.

Talk about your community work on the West side of Columbus.
You’ve worked hard in your Community. Talk about why you are running to represent Ohio Congressional District 15 in Washington DC.

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Bea, Artie and Phil discuss why the fact that a record 20 million people are now on ACA (Obamacare) plans is not the unequivocal good news that Democrats are portraying it as, how to understand those numbers in the context of the ongoing Medicaid unwinding, and why it’s long past time to move beyond the ACA.

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Runtime 1:06:48, 19 February 2024

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Death Panel Teaser - Let Them Eat Statistics (02/19/24)

Teaser - Let Them Eat Statistics (02/19/24)

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them.

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:29:17, 18 March 2024

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Death Panel 500 Teaser - On NPR's "Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again" (03/18/24)

Teaser - On NPR's "Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again" (03/18/24)

Dr. Gene Shively, Dr. Mike Flynn, and Paul Hoppe finish their discussion on private equity in healthcare that favors profit over patients.

Single Payer Radio | Gene, Mike & Paul | Private Equity in Healthcare | 3-11-24

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Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent book “Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time,” which presents itself as chronicling public health’s many missteps since the beginning of the covid pandemic, but in practice wants to draw our attention to all of the wrong conclusions.

The book we discuss in this episode was also the subject of the NYT column we talked about in the episode "Masks and Symbols" in January, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/masks-and-01-29-97441318

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:27:27, 8 April 2024

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Death Panel Teaser - Liberalism, “Illiberalism,” and Public Health (04/08/24)

Teaser - Liberalism, “Illiberalism,” and Public Health (04/08/24)

This time on Code WACK! 
How would single-payer, Medicare for All affect the experience of getting care? Would it make it easier to find and see a primary care doctor? And just as importantly, how much money could individuals and families save under a state or national single-payer system?

See how much you would save with the new, national Medicare for All Household Savings Calculator!

Join us as we chat with Dr. James G. Kahn, who led the calculator team. He's an expert in health policy and economics, an advisor to Code WACK! and editor and primary blogger of Health Justice Monitor, a health policy blog.

This is the second episode in a two part series with Dr. Kahn.

New from Code WACK,The single-payer quandary: What would you do with an extra $5,000 a year?

Harriette Seiler and Kay Tillow discuss health care insurance company ideology.

Harriette And Kay On Insurance Company Ideology 5 3 2024untitled

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