Death Panel

We speak with Abdullah Shihipar about the state of the pandemic as cases rise once again, the recent CDC study showing 140,000 children have lost a parent or caregiver to the pandemic, and how to resist the omnipresent social pressure to give up and accept covid.

Abdullah Shihipar is a contributing writer for Business Insider and leads Narrative Projects and Policy Impact initiatives at the People, Place & Health Collective (PPHC) at the Brown University School of Public Health.

Read Abdullah's piece on covid, kids, and their caregivers here: https://www.businessinsider.com/children-kids-lost-parents-covid-19-biden-mental-health-2021-11

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Beatrice speaks with Da'Shaun L. Harrison about their book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness and the joined histories of eugenics and racial capitalism.

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We discuss the media's fixation on the need to set covid "offramps" and sketch a trajectory for how the talking point has become increasingly pervasive.

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Abby Cartus stops by for a long discussion on the implications of SB 8, the Texas anti-abortion bill, two months into enactment. We dig into the oral arguments heard last week at the Supreme Court and one study that shows the law already reduced abortions by 49.8%, and wonder just what, exactly, it would take to get anyone to do anything about it.

Runtime 1:36:22, 9 November 2021

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We review Kathryn Paige Harden's new book "The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality." Does this pop psychologist succeed in creating a framework for "anti-eugenics," or are these old just ideas in a new skin?

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Frank Pasquale joins us to discuss the rise of cost-benefit analysis as an influential force in American policy, the many problems with it, and what should be done about it. We also discuss his introduction to the Law and Political Economy Project's symposium on cost benefit analysis.

Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and author of New Laws of Robotics (2020) and The Black Box Society (2015). Read the LPE symposium here: https://lpeproject.org/symposia/cost-benefit-analysis/

Runtime 1:07:59, 2 November 2021

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We celebrate Halloween the Death Panel way: with two chilling tales of empire and capital, as read by the one and only Phil Rocco.

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In this very special episode, we look at how it became that 42% of Medicare plans in the US are administered through the privatized, "Medicare Advantage" option. We talk about why that sucks and what we can do about it.

This is (loosely) the third part of a slowly unfolding series of historical deep dives on how the US healthcare system was so horribly designed. While this is a standalone episode, you can find the two earlier discussions at patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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We discuss the Biden administration's newly narrowed ambitions for its Build Back Better bill, including the assertion that negotiations over the healthcare provisions are now "holding it up," and the surprising possibility that Democrats might, finally, do something about privatized Medicare plans. Then we look at J.G. Allen's proclamation this week that schools should end mask mandates as soon as the vaccine is approved for children.

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We discuss the New York Times' recent claim—citing Abby!—that Emily Oster has been "vindicated" when it comes to covid and kids. Then we take a look at the novel policy solution no one asked for: the "opioid vaccine."

Runtime 1:19:15, 19 October 2021

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