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Bea and Phil speak with lifelong activist William Bronston about his experiences trying to take down the infamous Willowbrook institution from within as a young Doctor, his appeal to replace “long term care” with “lifetime care," and how his work towards deinstitutionalization informs his ongoing advocacy for single payer healthcare.

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Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how the Medicaid "Unwinding," which has already seen over 5 million and counting lose their social safety net health insurance, is still being treated as such an afterthought in the press, even as the Biden administration does nothing to stop it.

Transcript:

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/unwound-medicaid-unwinding

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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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Bea speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about troubling new guidance changes the CDC is considering that would further weaken infection control in healthcare settings, and NNU's campaign to stop it.

You can help out NNU's campaign at the links below, including giving public comment at the CDC's meeting on August 22nd.

Transcript:

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/infection-control-cdc-nnu

Sign on to NNU's letter here:

nnu.org/cdc

Sign up to give public testimony on August 22nd here:

https://forms.gle/5eqMQ15uNsPQeM2j7

Read NNU's letter to Mandy Cohen here:

https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/sites/default/files/nnu/documents/0723_HICPAC_experts_letter_background_combined_FINAL.pdf

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We're taking this week off for research and to gear up for what we've got planned for the show in the fall. With that in mind—and since David Leonhardt has been back to writing about covid again recently—today we're revisiting a favorite from last year: our conversation with Jacob Bacharach about what made Leonhardt's New York Times newsletter The Morning such an influential voice of "back to normal," and how Leonhardt's analyses of everything from covid to traffic accidents don't add up.

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We're taking the week of the 14th off for research and to gear up for what we've got planned for the show in the fall. In the meantime, if you appreciate this episode, or just want to support our work, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod to unlock more patron exclusive episodes just like this.

In today's show, Bea and Artie speak with Nate Holdren about a recent court ruling in California that denied a covid worker's compensation claim because recognizing employer liability would have "the potential to destroy businesses and curtail, if not outright end, the provision of essential public services."

Transcript:

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/unlimited-liabilities-nate-holdren

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Bea, Artie, Abby, and Phil discuss the media's collective shrug over rising covid hospitalizations and Ashish Jha's recent op-ed “With a few basic steps, most of us can finally ignore COVID.”

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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.

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Bea and Artie speak with Nate Holdren about a recent court ruling in California that denied a covid worker's compensation claim because recognizing employer liability would have "the potential to destroy businesses and curtail, if not outright end, the provision of essential public services."

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

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Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the career and opinions of Biden's new CDC Director Mandy Cohen and how her self-described mission to rebuild "trust" in the agency is only half the story.

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