Death Panel

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October 16, 2021 Scarcity and the Stenographer (10/15/21)
We discuss the supply chain crisis as a global labor issue and a result of the administration's covid policies. Then we consider an overwhelmingly myopic piece of health policy analysis from Vox, titled "Can the US cut drug prices without sacrificing new cures?"
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1 hr 8 min
October 13, 2021 Teaser - Kathryn Paige Harden and the Spectre of Eugenics (10/12/21)
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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?
Runtime 1:23:24, 12 October 2021
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8 min
October 09, 2021 A Spoonful of Thorazine
We set out to discuss the deprioritization of long-term care in the reconciliation bill and a New York Times investigative report on rampant chemical sedation in nursing homes, and end up explaining the history of chemical incarceration and how nursing homes exist as part of the prison industrial complex.
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1 hr 17 min
October 06, 2021 Teaser - The Entitlement Society w/ Libby Watson (10/05/21)
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Libby Watson joins us to sort out last week's reconciliation bill mess, the unceremonious termination of pandemic COBRA benefits, and the ongoing pundit obsession with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
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Runtime 1:13:47, 5 October 2021
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6 min
October 02, 2021 Repro Utopia w/ Sophie Lewis (10/01/21)
Sophie Lewis joins us on the occasion of the paperback edition of their book Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family to discuss the politics of pregnancy as labor, the political naturalization of the family structure, and what we mean when we say "utopia."
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1 hr 15 min
September 28, 2021 Teaser - Monoclonal Antipathies (09/28/21)
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We discuss the increasing politicization of monoclonal antibody treatments for covid-19, why they're so absent from the national debate over covid response, treatment, and IP, and the Biden administration's recent decision to adjust the quantities it ships to states.
Runtime 1:08:58, 28 September 2021
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6 min
September 25, 2021 Operation Enduring Virus (09/24/21)
We discuss the Biden administration's Global COVID-19 Summit, the decision by the CDC and FDA this week to approve booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine, and where things stand with the TRIPS waiver.
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1 hr 10 min
September 22, 2021 Teaser - A Spoonful of Thorazine (09/21/21)
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We set out to discuss the deprioritization of long-term care in the reconciliation bill and a New York Times investigative report on rampant chemical sedation in nursing homes, and end up explaining the history of chemical incarceration and how nursing homes exist as part of the prison industrial complex.
Runtime 1:11:54, 21 September 2021
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5 min
September 18, 2021 Sacred and Profane (09/17/21)
We discuss the ongoing fight over the drug pricing component of the reconciliation bill and critique a report from the Congressional Budget Office that makes some incredible claims about the bill's impact on the pharmaceutical industries.
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1 hr 10 min
September 15, 2021 Teaser - The Many Saints of Austerity (09/14/21)
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We discuss a new CDC report that complicates public insistence that dangers to the vaccinated are overblown. Then we discuss the eminently dismissible work of philosopher Peter Singer, 2021 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize, and his 2009 essay "Why We Must Ration Health Care."
Runtime 1:11:07, 14 September 2021
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7 min