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Medicare for ALL | Dr. Yusra Hussain & Meriam Ahmad
Each of us has the right to live, to have a good healthcare system to assist us whenever we are ill, and affordable medicines to buy for the sake of our health. Unfortunately, most countries nowadays, including the United States, have a healthcare system that isn’t inclusive enough despite having a sound government and stable economy.
Medicare plays an important part in maintaining the health and financial stability of many individuals. It encompasses a wide range of essential health care, such as hospital stays, medical visits, and prescription medications. Therefore, Medicare is relevant for all citizens.
In this episode, we will be joined by a powerful mother-daughter duo who are advocates of encompassing the healthcare system, Dr. Yusra Hussain and Meriam Ahmad. During our talk, we discussed what’s happening in our current healthcare system, why it is deemed fractured, the inequality and inefficiencies in our healthcare system, and why we should start advocacy for our health.
Learn more about how the Single-Payer System or Medicare For All can impact each one of us, even people at a young age, and why we should champion this most important healthcare change in our system. Join us as we share knowledge on the advocacy of healthcare for all.
Dr. Gabiola and her guests discussed:
- How many people have insurance but are unable due to the cost to go to the doctor or to get other essential medications.
- Why despite the highest spending on healthcare, Americans experience worse health outcomes than their international peers.
- That it is a problem that the United States is an employer-based healthcare system, which only allows people who are gainfully employed to access healthcare, and those who have disabilities may be able to access healthcare under some government-sponsored programs.
- How a lot of uninsured individuals, Americans, and residents, simply just don't have access to healthcare or decent healthcare due to lack of employment.
- Why we should all stand behind AB 1400 since it will provide universal healthcare coverage, primarily to cover all points of care access. It will also provide mental health and access to, essentially, home services and home care.
- How we are falling behind in terms of every marker of health and how it's hurting us, not only as people but as an economy.
Memorable Quotes:
- Essentially what we have in America is not a healthcare system, it's a patchwork of private insurance coverage and public different options. - Meriam Ahmad
- Any system that profits, when people are not accessing healthcare, is a broken system. - Meriam Ahmad
- Most businesses have adopted this model where they contract outside workers and essentially don't provide them with any benefits or health coverage and these people are on their search for healthcare. - Yusra Hussain
- We need to educate everybody who's around us essentially, and it’s word of mouth so everyone does their part essentially and teaches the people who are around them. - Yusra Hussain
About the Guests:
Meriam Ahmad is a high school junior in San Jose. She chairs the South Bay chapter of Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP), and she is the Youth Organizer for the Santa Clara County Single-Payer Health Care Coalition.
Dr. Yusra Hussain is an adjunct clinical assistant professor at Stanford School of Medicine and the chair for Physicians for a National Healthcare Program- South Bay chapter. She is a practicing internist and a geriatrician in Palo Alto, California.
About the Host:
Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.
About ABC's for Global Health:
ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.
Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:
- Get Involved
- Donate
Click here for the FULL TRANSCRIPT.
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Each of us has the right to live, to have a good healthcare system to assist us whenever we are ill, and affordable medicines to buy for the sake of our health. Unfortunately, most countries nowadays, including the United States, have a healthcare system that isn’t inclusive enough despite having a sound government and stable economy.
Medicare plays an important part in maintaining the health and financial stability of many individuals. It encompasses a wide range of essential health care, such as hospital stays, medical visits, and prescription medications. Therefore, Medicare is relevant for all citizens.
In this episode, we will be joined by a powerful mother-daughter duo who are advocates of encompassing the healthcare system, Dr. Yusra Hussain and Meriam Ahmad. During our talk, we discussed what’s happening in our current healthcare system, why it is deemed fractured, the inequality and inefficiencies in our healthcare system, and why we should start advocacy for our health.
Learn more about how the Single-Payer System or Medicare For All can impact each one of us, even people at a young age, and why we should champion this most important healthcare change in our system. Join us as we share knowledge on the advocacy of healthcare for all.
Dr. Gabiola and her guests discussed:
- How many people have insurance but are unable due to the cost to go to the doctor or to get other essential medications.
- Why despite the highest spending on healthcare, Americans experience worse health outcomes than their international peers.
- That it is a problem that the United States is an employer-based healthcare system, which only allows people who are gainfully employed to access healthcare, and those who have disabilities may be able to access healthcare under some government-sponsored programs.
- How a lot of uninsured individuals, Americans, and residents, simply just don't have access to healthcare or decent healthcare due to lack of employment.
- Why we should all stand behind AB 1400 since it will provide universal healthcare coverage, primarily to cover all points of care access. It will also provide mental health and access to, essentially, home services and home care.
- How we are falling behind in terms of every marker of health and how it's hurting us, not only as people but as an economy.
Memorable Quotes:
- Essentially what we have in America is not a healthcare system, it's a patchwork of private insurance coverage and public different options. - Meriam Ahmad
- Any system that profits, when people are not accessing healthcare, is a broken system. - Meriam Ahmad
- Most businesses have adopted this model where they contract outside workers and essentially don't provide them with any benefits or health coverage and these people are on their search for healthcare. - Yusra Hussain
- We need to educate everybody who's around us essentially, and it’s word of mouth so everyone does their part essentially and teaches the people who are around them. - Yusra Hussain
About the Guests:
Meriam Ahmad is a high school junior in San Jose. She chairs the South Bay chapter of Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP), and she is the Youth Organizer for the Santa Clara County Single-Payer Health Care Coalition.
Dr. Yusra Hussain is an adjunct clinical assistant professor at Stanford School of Medicine and the chair for Physicians for a National Healthcare Program- South Bay chapter. She is a practicing internist and a geriatrician in Palo Alto, California.
About the Host:
Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.
About ABC's for Global Health:
ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.
Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:
- Get Involved
- Donate
Click here for the FULL TRANSCRIPT.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.