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Podcast: Code WACK!
Episode: The deadly calculation of our for-profit healthcare system
Description: This time on Code WACK! How did a single mom in Kentucky, in the 1970s, become a physician, then a health insurance medical reviewer and eventually a whistleblower? To find out, we recently interviewed Dr. Linda Peeno, a physician and ethicist who has spent nearly four decades working to protect patients from harm and death by corporate healthcare systems. Dr. Peeno was played by actor Laura Dern in the 2002 docudrama "Damaged Care," and she was also featured in Michael Moore's 2007 documentary "Sicko." She has assisted in more than 150 legal cases to expose for-profit s...