Medicare for All Explained, All Episodes:

Individual Episodes on Podbean:

Episode 42: State Level Medicare for All: Is It Possible? – My guest, Matthew Lawrence, J.D., is an Associate Professor of Law at Emory University, and specializes in health care finance, administrative law, and addictions. He has written widely on these subjects with articles published or forthcoming in several prominent law journals and possesses a wealth of experience in the federal government. September 14, 2020

Episode 41: Racism, Health Care, and Medicare for All – My guest, Sanjeev Sriram, MD, MPH, also known as Dr. America, is a pediatrician in Southeast Washington, DC, and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He discusses racism in health care, Masks for America, and the All Means All campaign. September 1, 2020

Special Communication: Systems Comparison – This special communication provides a comparison of health care systems and shows the many benefits of Medicare for All. A downloadable PDF of this chart can be found here. (Note: This may be available only on Podbean and this website.) August 31, 2020

Episode 40: Join the Fight – My guest, Chrissy Holt, discusses how her son was born was born with severe hemophilia A and declared uninsurable. His birth with a pre-existing condition immediately propelled her into volunteer advocacy. August 14, 2020

Episode 39: How Medicare Integrated Hospitals – It is a special episode to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the passage of Medicare on July 30, 1965. My guest, Dr. Barbara Berney, MPH, PhD, produced the documentary, “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.” She discusses how the creation of Medicare was used to desegregate thousands of hospitals in a few months. July 30, 2020

Episode 38: Health Inequality and Physical Structure – My guest, Gracie Himmelstein, discusses how how unequal hospital facilities and capital assets contribute to ongoing racial disparities in health. July 15, 2020

Episode 37: A Living Wage Home Cleaning Company and COVID-19 – My guest, Aaron Seyedian, discuss the company he founded, Well-Paid Maids and the effects of COVID-19 on his business. July 1, 2020

Episode 36: We don’t have a health care system in the United States – My guest, Daniel Skinner, teaches health policy at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and hosts the podcast “Prognosis Ohio” with WCBE, 90.5 FM, in Columbus, Ohio. June 14, 2020

Episode 35: Racial Inequities: COVID-19 has essentially ripped the cover off of some of the deepest cracks in our current healthcare system – My guest, Dr. Ashley Duhon, is a recent New Orleans area medical school graduate. She describes how COVID-19 is affecting minority groups. June 1, 2020

Episode 34: An Ongoing Issue: Drug Prices and Supplies Before and During the Pandemic – My guest, Shannon Rotolo, has her doctorate in pharmacy, and she manages high cost specialty drugs that are complex to administer. Dr. Rotolo describes the problems with drug supplies and high drug prices before and during this pandemic. May 15, 2020

Episode 33: Patients Are Just Pawns in the Game – My guest, Anna Stratis, MD, is a Canadian-trained family physician with a passion for working with people in communities and improving healthcare and quality of life. She is volunteering at a New York City hospital during the current COVID-19 crisis. May 1, 2020

Episode 32: If There’s an Argument for Medicare for All That Ought to Convince Everyone, It’s This Epidemic – My guest, David Himmelstein, MD, is a Distinguished Professor of public health and health policy in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. April 12, 2020

Episode 31: The Tremendous Good a Publicly Sponsored Insurance System Can Do – My guest is Donald Berwick, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama. March 31, 2020

Episode 30: Plain Economics: The Main Problem With Rural Health Care – My guest, Robert Devereaux, MD, practices family medicine in Pearisburg, Virginia, a rural town near the West Virginia border. March 15, 2020

Episode 29: Retrospective Denials – My guest is Martha Gaines, Director, Center for Patient Partnership (CPP); Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. March 1, 2020

Episode 28: Racial Inequities in Health Care – My guest is Susan Rogers, MD, FACP, and the president-elect of Physicians for a National Health Program. Feb. 15, 2020

Episode 27: Stop Using Health Insurance Industry Language – My guest is Ben Palmquist, Health Care Program Director for the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). Jan. 31, 2020

Episode 26: Surprise Medical Bills – My guest is Dr. Mark Krasnoff, MD. Jan. 14, 2020

Episode 25: Insurance Companies Are Practicing Medicine, And They Are Doing It in a Way That If a Doctor Did That, They Would Absolutely Lose Their License – My guest is Dr. William Bennett, MD. Dec 14, 2019

Episode 24: Why Drug Prices Are So Expensive in the United States – My guest is Prof. Donald Light. Nov. 15, 2019

Episode 23: The Average Family Is Going to Get Much More and Pay Much Less – My guest is Dr. Victoria Dooley, MD. Nov. 1, 2019

Episode 22: Mothers for Medicare for All – Part 2 – My guest is Kristen Grimm, founder of Mothers for Medicare for All. Oct. 14, 2019

Episode 21: Mothers for Medicare for All – Part 1 – My guest is Kristen Grimm, founder of Mothers for Medicare for All. Oct. 1, 2019

Episode 20: Dealing with HIV – My guest is Kenyon Farrow. Sept. 15, 2019

Episode 19: How Do We Meet the Needs of People Who Need Mental Health Services? Poorly! – My guest is psychiatrist Dr. Leslie Gise, MD. Sept. 1, 2019

Episode 18: We Can’t Truly Help People in This For-Profit System – My guest is Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant Kristy Fogle, founder of the Maryland Progressive Healthcare Coalition. Aug. 14, 2019

Episode 17: Every Shift I Would See Patients Struggling for Their Care – My guest is Jonathan Michels. Aug. 1, 2019

Episode 16: A Different Kind of Going Broke – My guest is Neil Buchanan, an economist and a professor of law. July 15, 2019

Episode 15: A Revelation – My guest is Stephanie Nakajima, Director of Communications at Healthcare-NOW. July 1, 2019

Episode 14: Health Care in Rural America – My guest is Dina van der Zalm. June 14, 2019

Episode 13: We Will Win by Building a Grassroots Movement – My guest is Max Cotterill, a community organizer with the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United. May 31, 2019

Episode 12: When You’ve Got a For-Profit System, True Care Goes Out the Window – My guest is Jean Ross, RN, and President of National Nurses United. May 14, 2019

Episode 11: Hearing Highlights – On April 30, 2019, the House Committee on Rules held the first ever hearing in Congress on Medicare for All. This episode highlights excerpts from the hearing. May 1, 2019

Episode 10: Building Solidarity – Why Seniors Should Support Medicare for All – My guest is Alex Lawson, the Executive Director of Social Security Works. April 14, 2019

Episode 9: The Economics of Health Care, Part 2: The Solution – Medicare for All – My guest is Gerald Friedman, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. March 31, 2019

Episode 8: The Economics of Health Care, Part 1: The Problem – Our Current Health Care System Is Unaffordable – My guest is Gerald Friedman, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. March 14, 2019

Episode 7: Putting Out the Fire With Medicare for All – My guest is Dr. George Bohmfalk, MD. March 1, 2019

Episode 6: We Can Conquer This Problem – My guest is Richard Master, founder and CEO of MCS Industries. Feb. 14, 2019

Episode 5: Peace of Mind – My guest is Wendell Potter. Jan. 31, 2019

Episode 4: Global Budgets: Saving Money and Increasing Simplicity – My guest is Dr. Phil Verhoef, MD. Jan. 14, 2019

Episode 3: The Manual – My guest is Dr. Nicte Mejia, MD. Jan. 1, 2019

Episode 2: The Five Es – My guest is Dr. Richard Bruno, MD. Dec. 6, 2018

Episode 1: Medicare For All, An Overview – My guest is Dr. Ed Weisbart, MD. Nov. 13, 2018

Transcripts – Available transcripts can be found here.