This is episode 129, “WISeR Isn’t.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why Medicare’s WISeR program isn’t wise.

This is episode 128, “How Medicare for All Could Change Your Life.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains how Medicare for All could change your life. 

Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL337TuRDOI

This is episode 127, “Where to Get Reliable Medical Information.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks list some websites to get reliable health information now that the CDC is unreliable.

Below are the websites mentioned in this podcast. 

Brown University’s School of Public Health Pandemic Center

The Cleveland Clinic’s Health Library 

HealthyChildren.org

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Planned Parenthood

University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)

Vaccine Education Center

This is episode 126, “Medicare Stealth Cuts.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks describes how Donald Trump and the GOP are making Stealth Cuts to Medicare even though Trump said he would not cut Medicare. 

This is episode 125, “A Horrible Distraction.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks describes how the Big Beautiful Bill will cause millions to lose healthcare and distract us from solving the healthcare crisis in the United States.

This is episode 124, “Bad Healthcare News.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks describes how proposed Medicaid cuts in the misnamed Big Beautiful Bill will cause millions to lose health care.

This is episode 123, “Millions More Without Care.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains that the arguments over Medicaid cuts ignores people who are uninsured and underinsured.

This is episode 122, "Bearing the Cost of Irresponsible Healthcare Decisions."

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains that Medicare for All would reduce bad healthcare decisions by ending the denial of care by health insurance companies.

This is episode 121, “Free Market Healthcare Doesn’t Work.”

In this episode, Ali Velshi, a capitalist, explains why a free market healthcare system will never work. Velshi is from Canada and was a journalist on CNBC and before moving to MSNBC.  Velshi’s explanation is from “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” 

Do not miss this episode as Ali Velshi explains why free market healthcare won’t work and why there is no country that has a free market healthcare system.

This is episode 120, “Speaking to the Needs of the People.”

In this episode, I play an excerpt from an interview with Blake Zeff. He helped in both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and is an expert in policy and strategic communications.

In the interview, Zeff explains that issues of health care helped the Democrats win the 2020 election, and then the Democrats rarely talked about health care and did almost nothing to address the problems with our healthcare system once elected.

Do not miss this episode as Blake Zeff discusses Democrats' failure to address health care.