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Marble lobbies & grand pianos: How America's nonprofit hospitals make bank

202

Is Medicare Advantage too good to be true?

203

'Treasure & lives' at stake as states fight for guaranteed health care

204

'Sea change' or 'status quo?' The midterms & U.S. health policy

205

Medicare Disadvantage and the Medigap Trap

206

Secret rules, denials & fraud: The dark side of Medicare Advantage

207

Charged & overcharged: Why some Americans seek health care abroad

208

How much could you save with single payer? Now, you can do the math!

209

Medicare drug coverage? 'The system is not designed to help you'

210

'No Rhyme or Reason:' Prescription Drug Pricing in America

211

Decommodifying health care and housing

212

Winning Health Care for Immigrants: The California Precedent

213

'Out in the Cold:' America's deadly un-insurance problem

214

Even the rich suffer from America's wack healthcare system

215

Is The Tide Turning for Medicare for All?

216

How Big Pharma makes a killing on patients' suffering

217

The politics of pregnancy: Is parenthood destiny or choice in America?

218

'Thrown into chaos.' The shifting abortion landscape in post-Dobbs America

219

When Having Health Insurance Doesn't Help

220

Punished for being poor? Battling medical debt in America

221

A perfect storm: racism, chronic Illness & medical debt

222

'Where the fight begins.' Provider networks & LGBTQ patients

223

'Safe Spaces.' Health care and the LGBTQ community

224

Behind the fight against corporate negligence

225

The immigrant workers' struggle for life and dignity

226

Essential but excluded: Farmworkers face healthcare hurdles

227

Connecting the dots: A legislative path to healthcare justice?

228

Living sicker, dying younger in the richest country on Earth

229

Growing Old in America? This Pod's for You.

230

What Happens When a Nurse Stands Up & Gets Loud?

231

Saving the American Economy with Single Payer

232

Single Payer: Have We Been Wrong About the Costs All Along?

233

'A New Day' for California Health Care?

234

'Bottom-line vampires?' How insurance companies are sucking U.S. businesses dry

235

Who are the 'Big Six' taking over America's health care?

236

Thom Hartmann on Why Americans Need to Take Back Our Health Care, Like Yesterday!

237

'Apartheid' Health Care? Why Medicaid Isn't Cutting It for America's Poor

238

A Banker in the Exam Room? The Growing Resistance to Medicare Privatization

239

Healing Healthcare Trauma: Tools for Nurses and People Who Care

240

Rise Up: 'They get rich while we fade away'

241

When Lawmakers Fail to Act: Taking Single Payer to the People

242

On The Front Lines of Washington's Single-Payer Fight

243

The American Healthcare Surprise

244

Beyond Pink Ribbons: One man's fight with breast cancer in America

245

Single-Payer Setback, Defeat or Fail? AB 1400's Day in the Sun

246

'Throwing Good Money After Bad?' Why Biden's Healthcare Strategy Isn't Enough

247

'Bought & Bossed?' Why Lawmakers Keep Dropping the Ball on Single Payer

248

Is it "go time" for California single payer?

249

Pandemic: Preparing for a New Normal (2022 Update)

250

Cruel and Stupid? Take Two. How our Healthcare System Affects Doctors and Patients

251

Stress, Anxiety & the Agonizing Toll of America's Callous Healthcare System

252

A devastating loss, then corporate callousness. An American healthcare story.

253

How We Heal: Strategies for Tackling Community Trauma

254

The tragic effects of structural violence & community trauma

255

Is 'Now' Our Moment for Healthcare Justice?

256

California Medicare for All? Assemblyman Ash Kalra is all in!

257

The Power of Labor in California's Battle for Single Payer

258

American workers' desperate fight for healthcare security

259

Thom Hartmann: Now's the time to fix our 'bloodsucking leech' of a healthcare system. Here's how.

260

Tune in! Thom Hartmann discusses his new book & the racist history behind America's ongoing healthcare fiasco

261

Wall Street's Latest Attack on Traditional Medicare

262

The Disadvantages of Medicare Advantage

263

Is California's healthcare future in the hands of a commission?

264

Making Medicare Even Better? The Promise of Improved Medicare for All

265

Decolonizing Health Care

266

INFLAMED: Colonialism, Climate Change & Health Care

267

Fighting for life in America's healthcare rabbit hole

268

Heartless Denial: HIV Discrimination & Organ Transplants

269

'Centuries of Inequities' & the COVID Crisis

270

Medicine's undeniable role in U.S. racism

271

Restaurant Worker Abuse? Let Us Count The Ways

272

Why Restaurant Workers are Singing the Blues: Former Nashville Server Speaks Out

273

Cherry picking? Lemon dropping? How health insurers weed out sick people

274

Did NY Dems drop the ball on Medicare for All -- again?

275

Hallucinating & Hypertensive: A Long COVID Nightmare

276

The Fallacy of Choice in U.S. Health Care

277

Setting the stage for health equity in America

278

The $4T Elephant in the Room - U.S. Health Care

279

Shareholders Before Patients - America's Healthcare Dilemma

280

The Three-Front Battle for California Single Payer

281

An Offense to Justice & Humanity?

282

Hawaii, Vermont & Single Payer: What went wrong?

283

Mental Health & Medicaid's Managed Care Mess

284

What's driving U.S. doctors out of private practice?

285

Health Insurance: America's 'chaotic deal with the devil?'

286

Unemployed & Uninsured in a Pandemic

287

Taking on Corporate Healthcare in America

288

'Critical Condition:' How to Save American Health Care?

289

The Scoop on California's New Medicare for All Bill

290

The David & Goliath Fight for Medicare for All

291

America's Racial Generation Gap & Healthcare Reform

292

The fight for healthcare equity in Washington State

293

Free to leave? Domestic abuse & health care

294

How America's broken healthcare system fails victims of domestic abuse

295

Pesticides, Accidents and ICE: Migrant farmworkers risk their lives to put food on your table

296

Radio Bilingue's Hugo Morales - from farmworker to public radio mogul

297

Battered by illness, medical bills in America's South

298

Any port in America's healthcare storm?

299

Stigma, Incarceration and Coronavirus - A Triple Threat

300

Equity & Respect: A Prescription for a Healthy Society