# healthcare system (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover healthcare system. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Other Michigan Medicare for All Fight: MIcare, the 50 State M4A Strategy, & the Latest Healthcare News](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/the-other-michigan-medicare-for-all-fight-micare-the-50-state-m4a-strategy-the-latest-healthcare-news-2/) _2026-08-11 · Medicare for All_ The national political media has been in a frenzy this week about friend-of-the-pod Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate primary victory in Michigan! Sayed made Medicare for All the centerpiece of his campaign, and at the polls, over 700,000 Michiganders got behind that vision of healthcare justice. But there’s another Medicare for All story unfolding in Michigan – the campaign to win a statewide universal… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode123.mp3) ## [What We Do In the Shadows: The Medicare for All Shadow Hearing & the Latest Healthcare News](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/the-other-michigan-medicare-for-all-fight-micare-the-50-state-m4a-strategy-the-latest-healthcare-news/) _2026-08-11 · Medicare for All_ When the U.S. Congress wants to get together, they don’t just check the shared Google calendar for a time when nobody’s using the House floor. Scheduling when or if a bill will ever get discussed or voted on is entirely up to the majority party. These days, that means that lawmakers outside the MAGAverse can’t do some pretty basic parts of their jobs like holding hearings. The Congressional… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode122.mp3) ## [When It Hurts to Heal: Moral Injury, Doctors, & the Latest Healthcare News](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/when-it-hurts-to-heal-moral-injury-doctors-the-latest-healthcare-news/) _2026-07-15 · Medicare for All_ Today we’re talking moral injury and how it’s impacting our doctors and the healthcare we get from them. What’s moral injury? Well, you may not have heard the term before, but trust us, if you’ve been watching The Pitt, you’ve already gotten a taste! Moral injury is the trauma that happens when someone knows the right thing to do but is prevented from doing it on a regular basis thanks to factors… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode121.mp3) ## [Don’t Mess With Texans: Saving Medicaid & the Latest Live Updates from the Texas Democratic Convention](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/dont-mess-with-texans-saving-medicaid-the-latest-live-updates-from-the-texas-democratic-convention/) _2026-06-30 · Medicare for All_ This episode, we’re live at the Texas Democratic Party Convention, where Gillian is battling heat stroke while talking with folks about why we need Medicare for All and how we’re using grassroots organizing to build the power to win it! In the past, Medicare for All might have been a tough sell in Texas, but things are very different these days, as the Lone Star state turns from red to a… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode120.mp3) ## [Empire State of Health: The Campaign for New York Health & the Latest Healthcare News](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/empire-state-of-health-the-campaign-for-new-york-health-the-latest-healthcare-news/) _2026-06-16 · Medicare for All_ As we record this, the New York Knicks just might be poised to make history and win their first NBA championship since 1973 (Go Knicks!), but we’re here today to talk about a potential win that could be even bigger for New York than the Knicks taking it all… the passage of The New York Health Act! The New York Health Act, currently working its way through the NY state legislature, would guarantee… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode119.mp3) ## [No Surrender Summer: Cleve Jones, Seven Days in June, & the Latest Healthcare News](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/no-surrender-summer-cleve-jones-seven-days-in-june-the-latest-healthcare-news/) _2026-06-01 · Medicare for All_ The fight for our health is heating up this summer! Across the country, folks are getting ready for a summer of action to demand real justice in our healthcare system. At Healthcare NOW, we’re calling it No Surrender Summer, and it’s all kicking off with Seven Days in June, a national week of action against healthcare cuts. Seven Days In June was conceived by iconic activist Cleve Jones. Cleve is… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode118.mp3) ## [Dry Hot American Summer: Water Wars, Health Impacts, & the Latest Healthcare News](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/dry-hot-american-summer-water-wars-health-impacts-the-latest-healthcare-news/) _2026-05-19 · Medicare for All_ We usually stick to the healthcare news here, but this time, we’re covering a story happening right in our own backyard that could have huge public health consequences. Corpus Christi, Texas is about to be the first American city to run out of water, which threatens the health and wellbeing of the entire city, and especially the folks who are already in precarious health situations. Today we’re… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode117.mp3) ## [Healthcare Not Warfare (2026 Edition) & the Latest Healthcare News](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/healthcare-not-warfare-2026-edition-the-latest-healthcare-news/) _2026-05-13 · Medicare for All_ Content Warning: This episode is somehow even swearier than usual. War is hell. Mostly because it kills people indiscriminately and disrupts the lives of huge groups of people, but also because it costs so much money that could be spent on saving lives. Now, after a year of hearing that our country is so hard up for money that we need to make massive cuts to Medicaid and other public health… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode116.mp3) ## [Primary Care: Abdul El Sayed & Medicare for All on the Campaign Trail](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/primary-care-abdul-el-sayed-medicare-for-all-on-the-campaign-trail/) _2026-03-31 · Medicare for All_ It’s primary season, y’all! Today I’m joined by Abdul El Sayed — doctor, public health expert, and candidate for the Democratic party nomination in Michigan to talk about healthcare in this election and on the campaign trail! https://www.youtube.com/live/gYy53RAC8Zk?si=AtCEyUq8634waWlA To read more about Abdul and the race for US Senate in Michigan, you can check out his campaign page . You can… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode115.mp3) ## [The One Where We All Get Professional Help](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/the-one-where-we-all-get-professional-help/) _2025-12-17 · Medicare for All_ Friends, I’ve got a question for you: how are you doing these days, mental-health-wise? Sometimes on the Medicare for All podcast we can get so busy edutaining about healthcare inequity that we forget to take a pause to check in and make sure we’re all OK. What’s that you say? You too are feeling a little… unwell these days? Us too! It’s an objectively terrible moment in history, we’re entering… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode114.mp3) ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/l0kWfmX44MMH) _2025-12-17 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Florida (Wo)Man Needs Healthcare: An Invitation to Our Conference!](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/florida-woman-needs-healthcare-an-invitation-to-our-conference/) _2025-09-26 · Medicare for All_ At Healthcare NOW, we’re used to getting push-back from folks who don’t believe in Medicare for All, and we always expect to hear from those folks – but this episode is about something different. When we announced our annual national Medicare for All Strategy Conference is happening this November, we got some push-back – not about our fight for healthcare justice, but about our choice of venue.… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode113.mp3) ## [Bots, Trolls, & Haters](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/bots-trolls-haters/) _2025-08-26 · Medicare for All_ Anyone who’s been on the internet and wants to preserve their sanity knows one, eternal truth: Don’t read the comments section. The comments, as we all know, are where our better angels go to die – where we forget our humanity and type out the ugliest, scariest stuff we were apparently thinking all along? Well, today, against our better judgement, we are going to disregard best practice and dig in… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode112.mp3) ## [Health Crisis in Palestine!](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/health-crisis-in-palestine/) _2025-08-02 · Medicare for All_ :::CONTENT WARNING::: This episode contains graphic discussions of genocide. Here at the Medicare for All Podcast, we are usually focused on the US, but the fight for universal access to healthcare is one that stretches way beyond our borders. Today we take a global perspective and check in with a group of doctors who are putting their lives on the line to address the serious devastation happening… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode111.mp3) ## [Medicaid — They Cut; We Bleed!](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/medicaid-they-cut-we-bleed/) _2025-06-23 · Medicare for All_ We’re talking about Medicaid folks, the public healthcare system meant to be our social safety net for anyone who can’t afford private insurance and doesn’t have access to healthcare from an employer. I’m sure most of you are aware of Medicaid — but what you might not know is just how many of our friends and neighbors land in that safety net every year. Over 70 Million people in this country rely… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode110.mp3) ## [Resistance 2.0!](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/resistance-2-0/) _2025-05-16 · Medicare for All_ Whether you are a party planner or a community organizer, you know that since the pandemic, it has been REALLY hard to get folks out of the house. It makes sense: the news is depressing, our screen-based scrolling culture is alienating, and our politics are polarizing to the point where a casual conversation can easily escalate to throwing hands. That being said, this month has been different! In… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode109.mp3) ## [Return to Oz](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/return-to-oz/) _2025-04-01 · Medicare for All_ For this episode, we’re going back to a familiar villain from podcast-past because unfortunately, healthcare villains have a habit of staying relevant. This is a guy who made his fame by cozying up to Oprah while schilling diet pills, supplements, and medical conspiracy theories – it’s Doctor Oz, who is now Trump’s nominee for Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That’s… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode108.mp3) ## [20 Years of Healthcare NOW!](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/20-years-of-healthcare-now/) _2025-03-27 · Medicare for All_ Listeners, what were you doing in 2004? Perhaps you were strolling down the street in low rise jeans, Uggs, and a Livestrong bracelet listening to Outkast’s “Hey Ya!” Or maybe you were sitting in a movie theater ready to have your mind blown by Ashton Kutcher’s tour de force performance in The Butterfly Effect. Well, the folks joining us on this week’s episode of our podcast may have missed some… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode107.mp3) ## [MAHA: Getting to Know RFK Jr.](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/maha-getting-to-know-rfk-jr/) _2025-02-11 · Medicare for All_ Well, the voters have spoken, and despite all of our recommendations to the contrary, they seem to have voted for Trump. Yeah, we’re pretty sad/scared/pissed off/trying to cope by dissociating and stress eating as well. Regardless, once again, it’s Trump’s America and we’re just living (or dying) in it. We know from experience that a Trump presidency is bad for our health, but now he has a… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode106.mp3) ## [Medicaid Privatization Smackdown in Connecticut!](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/episode-105-medicaid-privatization-smackdown-in-connecticut/) _2024-11-13 · Medicare for All_ We spend a lot of time griping about the insidious power of corporate health insurance in our healthcare system here. But you would expect that taxpayer funded public programs for our most vulnerable friends and neighbors are free from profiteering right? Sadly, no. Medicaid - the public program that serves the lowest income Americans, plus some people with disabilities, and a lot of the country’s… [Listen](https://www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode105.mp3) ## [Boo and Vote Local!](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/boo-and-vote-local/) _2024-10-21 · Medicare for All_ In case you’ve been asleep or under a rock for the past six months, we need to let you know two things: First, Kendrick won his beef with Drake, and second, there is a presidential election coming up. Like any presidential election year, everyone’s so focused on the big showdown at the top of the ticket, but that means that a lot of the local and state races, congressional races, and referenda… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/6D4BEB/www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode104.mp3) ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UFS0Gou7q74F) _2024-10-21 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Medical Debt in the I.O.U.SA](https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/medical-debt-in-the-i-o-u-sa/) _2024-09-30 · Medicare for All_ The United States is unique among industrialized nations. Lucky for us, we can accumulate medical debt! Most industrialized and some developing nations have national healthcare programs that guarantee care to their residents. But we in the richest nation in the world have the freedom to get insurance through the free market, and go into debt when it doesn’t cover the care we need! USA USA USA!… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/6D4BEB/www.healthcare-now.org/episodes/episode103.mp3)