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States Push Back Against Medicaid Managed Care
18 mins; March 30, 2026
The Middlemen Making Money Off Medicaid
16 mins; March 23, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Private Equity Hospital Buyouts
15 mins; March 16, 2026
Is private equity in health care killing us?
18 mins; March 09, 2026
Insured But Still Can't Afford Care? The Underinsured Crisis
16 mins; March 02, 2026
The Deadly Design of U.S. Health Care
17 mins; February 23, 2026
Why Insured Americans Still Need Charity Clinics
17 mins; February 16, 2026
The Real Cost of Health Insurance Nobody Talks About
13 mins; February 08, 2026
Medicare Advantage Is Breaking America's Promise to Seniors
18 mins; February 02, 2026
No real choice.' How Medicare Advantage fails seniors
17 mins; January 26, 2026
Is racism in health care still a problem in 2026? Absolutely.
12 mins; January 19, 2026
Revisiting America's racist - and deadly - legacy
16 mins; January 12, 2026
Inside California's Push for Guaranteed Healthcare
14 mins; January 05, 2026
Why More Americans Want Medicare for All
15 mins; December 29, 2025
Aging in place is hard. Could neighbors be an answer?
13 mins; December 22, 2025
The Caregiving Crisis Is Here - and America Isn't Ready
18 mins; December 15, 2025
The hidden forces behind skyrocketing health insurance costs
18 mins; December 08, 2025
'Widespread Panic:' Rising Premiums and Shrinking Subsidies Explained
16 mins; December 01, 2025
Love your Medicare Advantage plan? It does NOT love you back
18 mins; November 24, 2025
BS, Gaslighting & AI: Demystifying the health insurance denial process
18 mins; November 16, 2025
Profit, Prejudice, and the Price of Care
15 mins; November 10, 2025
When Insurers Play Doctor: How Corporate Greed Ties Physicians' Hands and Harms Patients
18 mins; November 03, 2025
Need care but lack insurance? Check out these free & low-cost options
17 mins; October 27, 2025
Survival strategies if you lose your health insurance
16 mins; October 20, 2025
Think Trump's Medicaid Cuts Won't Hit You? Think Again.
17 mins; October 13, 2025
Medicaid Saved My Mom's Life – But Trump Could End It for Millions
18 mins; October 06, 2025
The brutal dismantling of America's healthcare safety net
16 mins; September 29, 2025
Why Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' is a Disaster for People with Disabilities
17 mins; September 22, 2025
Stealing our children's potential: The failure of lead poisoning policy
15 mins; September 15, 2025
From Healthy Infant to Lead Poisoned? One Family's Harrowing Journey
17 mins; September 08, 2025
Labor Day: How Trump's Policies Threaten Workers' Rights, Safety & Retirement
14 mins; September 01, 2025
The One Big Beautiful Bill? It's a Bitch!
14 mins; August 25, 2025
Can a united West Coast win single-payer?
16 mins; August 18, 2025
Had it with the health insurance racket? Know your options!
15 mins; August 11, 2025
The House Always Wins: Why One Woman Gave Up On U.S. Health Insurance
17 mins; August 04, 2025
When Doctors Suffer Too: The Hidden Crisis of Moral Injury in U.S. Healthcare
16 mins; July 28, 2025
Betrayal, Burnout & Moral Injury: Doctors and the Financialization of Medicine
18 mins; July 21, 2025
Can California beat the odds and ditch for-profit healthcare?
15 mins; July 14, 2025
Independence? Unless we get health care, it's a sham.
12 mins; July 07, 2025
Medicaid on the chopping block: What's at stake?
15 mins; June 30, 2025
Death by a thousand cuts: Trump's attacks on our health care
15 mins; June 23, 2025
Weaponizing health care: The Trump rule targeting young immigrants
17 mins; June 16, 2025
How Big Insurance Rigs the Rules - and What We Can Do About It
15 mins; June 09, 2025
We can save billions on health care — why won't Congress do it?
16 mins; June 02, 2025
Profits over patients - America's sickening healthcare system
16 mins; May 26, 2025
Sex Ed, Medicaid, & Abortion Access: A trio of policies worth fighting for
17 mins; May 19, 2025
Criminalizing Choice: The Deadly Cost of Denying Abortion
16 mins; May 12, 2025
Taking It to the Streets: National Rally Against Greed in Health Care
11 mins; May 05, 2025
National Day of Action: Single payer & the power of righteous fury
17 mins; April 28, 2025
How states 'trap' abortion clinics to shut them down
17 mins; April 21, 2025
Roe to Resistance: Keeping Abortion Legal in the Heartland
17 mins; April 14, 2025
How to Fight RFK Jr.'s Ambiguous Vaccine Agenda: Insights from Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
10 mins; April 07, 2025
RFK Jr.s' dangerous new power over America's public health
12 mins; March 31, 2025
Sláintecare: Could Ireland's Universal Healthcare Model Work in the U.S.?
16 mins; March 24, 2025
How Ireland is Fixing Its Healthcare System – And What the U.S. Can Learn
16 mins; March 17, 2025
The lasting impact of racism in medicine
12 mins; March 10, 2025
Segregation in health care: America's racist - and deadly - legacy
16 mins; March 03, 2025
Billionaires vs. Our Benefits: Who Really Wins With Social Security Cuts?
17 mins; February 24, 2025
Could Trump's GOP Budget Cuts Kill Medicaid? Breaking Down the $2.3 Trillion Threat
15 mins; February 17, 2025
How Many Must Die? America's Health Crisis
12 mins; February 10, 2025
Murder, Money & Medicine: The United Healthcare CEO Tragedy and America's Insurance Crisis
16 mins; February 03, 2025
Health Equity Now: Tackling Racism in Medicine with Dr. Uché Blackstock
17 mins; January 27, 2025
MLK Day Special: Dismantling Racism in Medicine
15 mins; January 20, 2025
Can veterans really get better care outside the VA?
14 mins; January 13, 2025
The sordid financialization of America's healthcare system
17 mins; January 06, 2025
A second look at the Indian Health Service: A broken promise?
17 mins; December 30, 2024
Will Project 2025 sink traditional Medicare?
15 mins; December 23, 2024
The tricks and traps of Medicare 'Disadvantage' plans
16 mins; December 16, 2024
Forsaken? The problem with for-profit health care
15 mins; December 09, 2024
Coverage denied: A doctor's fight to save her own baby
18 mins; December 02, 2024
Does Trump mean the end of Medicare for All?
12 mins; November 25, 2024
Taking stock: Health care in the wake of the 2024 elections
14 mins; November 18, 2024
An Act of Congress? The essential, impossible fight against health insurer profiteering
15 mins; November 11, 2024
Is Aussie health care really better?
15 mins; November 04, 2024
Health care in the Land Down Under
15 mins; October 28, 2024
Countering systemic erasure? Data justice for marginalized communities
16 mins; October 21, 2024
Public health advocacy: Leveraging the immigrant experience
13 mins; October 14, 2024
A 'giant shell game?' The egregious gimmicks of corporate health care
16 mins; October 07, 2024
'Incestuous exploitation?' PBMs and corporate healthcare consolidation
15 mins; September 30, 2024
Jacked up premiums & chaos? Why your health care is on the line this November
17 mins; September 23, 2024
Patient-centered health care? The fight to change our disempowering system
15 mins; September 16, 2024
What's being done to stop pharmaceutical pirates?
13 mins; September 09, 2024
How pharmaceutical profiteers are screwing us over
12 mins; September 02, 2024
Privatization 'on steroids?' What health care could look like under Trump
17 mins; August 26, 2024
Your needs vs the 'financial incentives of your insurance plan?'
18 mins; August 19, 2024
Need out-of-state coverage? Get ready to jump through hoops & pay through the nose
16 mins; August 12, 2024
One man's fight for freedom and choice in health care
18 mins; August 05, 2024
The corporate 'war chest' that's spending big to control your health care
18 mins; July 29, 2024
Penny wise, pound foolish? How our long-term care policies fail us
17 mins; July 22, 2024
Should health insurers have the final say about your care?
17 mins; July 15, 2024
Is addiction a choice? New perspectives on substance use disorder
17 mins; July 08, 2024
The 'silent, slow apocalypse' of corporate health insurance
18 mins; July 01, 2024
The deadly calculation of our for-profit healthcare system
18 mins; June 24, 2024
Does silence still equal death? For too many Americans, the answer is yes.
20 mins; June 17, 2024
The devastating 'domino effect' of state budget cuts
12 mins; June 10, 2024
'Insidious, unethical,' yet legal: The Denial-of-Care model
18 mins; June 03, 2024
Commercial health insurance: Is denying care the business model?
19 mins; May 27, 2024
Our healthcare system's hurting us. Why are lawmakers complicit?
16 mins; May 20, 2024
From rage to gratitude: A mother's harrowing journey to save her daughter (and herself)
15 mins; May 13, 2024
Can single-payer advocates overcome the 'narcissism of small differences'?
18 mins; May 06, 2024