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Code WACK! shines a light on our callous healthcare system and what we can do about it. It reveals the healthcare hassles that - far from being just annoying - threaten our peace of mind, our financial security and at times, our very lives. Join us each week as we chat about the challenges that patients and healthcare providers face, amplifying their voices and examining a range of possible solutions, including Medicare for All. Powered by HEAL California, a project of the California OneCare Education Fund, Code WACK! informs the vital discussion of healthcare reform.

'Absolutely ruthless': The brutal privatization of U.S. health care

17 mins; April 29, 2024

The single-payer quandary: What would you do with an extra $5,000 a year?

16 mins; April 23, 2024

Simplicity, savings & equity? The single-payer solution

17 mins; April 15, 2024

What's at stake in 2024? Your health care

10 mins; April 08, 2024

How California's latest single-payer bill would revolutionize health care

14 mins; April 01, 2024

Forced pregnancies and racial bias: A deadly combination?

15 mins; March 25, 2024

Is 'fetal personhood' coming to your state?

18 mins; March 18, 2024

What's fueling America's dreadful nursing home care

11 mins; March 11, 2024

'A race to the bottom:' How U.S. nursing homes are failing us

18 mins; March 04, 2024

How Medicare ACOs restrict care and offer dangerous incentives

19 mins; February 26, 2024

'You're not safe': How middlemen are corrupting traditional Medicare

19 mins; February 19, 2024

'Nothing about us without us!' The trans community fights back

17 mins; February 12, 2024

Transgender denied! Healthcare stigma & discrimination in rural America

17 mins; February 05, 2024

A life-saving Rx for Skid Row? Methadone, harm reduction & reparations

15 mins; January 29, 2024

From Hollywood to Skid Row: What's behind LA County's ballooning overdose deaths?

12 mins; January 22, 2024

Can we stem the tide of healthcare inflation?

15 mins; January 15, 2024

A new sheriff in town? How one state is fighting high healthcare costs

16 mins; January 08, 2024

Why millions of Americans seek health care abroad, despite the risks

17 mins; January 01, 2024

'Absolutely bonkers': The hassles doctors face in treating patients

17 mins; December 25, 2023

Healing US: Uniting across the political spectrum to save lives?

15 mins; December 18, 2023

A 'village of support': Changing the game for Black expectant parents

16 mins; December 11, 2023

Abundance, joy & dignity. Healing the Black birth experience

13 mins; December 04, 2023

Money, money, money! The politics of funding single payer

15 mins; November 27, 2023

Fed up with profit-driven health care? New law puts patients first.

15 mins; November 20, 2023

Fighting the Medicare Advantage scourge

13 mins; November 12, 2023

Four Ways Medicare Advantage is ripping you off

14 mins; November 06, 2023

Stranded: Throwing a lifeline to the millions losing Medicaid

14 mins; October 30, 2023

Millions of Americans lost in the Medicaid purge

16 mins; October 23, 2023

Indian Health Service: A broken promise?

17 mins; October 16, 2023

Enduring Inequalities: Health Care in America's Indigenous Communities

15 mins; October 09, 2023

Meet the Wall Street darlings ruining our health care

18 mins; October 02, 2023

Inclusion, Independence & Dignity: Health care & people with disabilities

13 mins; September 25, 2023

No place at the policy table? Failing those most in need

14 mins; September 18, 2023

SAG-AFTRA on strike: the Hollywood hustle in the age of AI

17 mins; September 11, 2023

Hostages to health care? The American workers' dilemma

15 mins; September 04, 2023

Minnesota's taking on corporate health care -- and winning!

16 mins; August 28, 2023

Profits over people? There's an algorithm for that.

16 mins; August 21, 2023

Delays, denials & death: The Medicare Advantage Scam

16 mins; August 14, 2023

'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' & other healthcare myths

15 mins; August 07, 2023

Does your health insurance cover physical therapy? Kind of, maybe.

15 mins; July 31, 2023

Winning an equitable abortion landscape

17 mins; July 24, 2023

One woman's struggle for care in America's South, without Medicaid

13 mins; July 17, 2023

Burnout is wearing doctors down. Could Medicare for All help?

14 mins; July 10, 2023

Saving the American Economy with Single Payer: A Second Look

12 mins; July 03, 2023

'Mass uncertainty:' America's abortion landscape in the post-Dobbs era

15 mins; June 26, 2023

When a healthy pregnancy turns deadly. The story of April Valentine.

16 mins; June 19, 2023

Unheard: Pain, denial & the Black birth experience

13 mins; June 12, 2023

Sex, stigma & the 'murderous logic' of the healthcare industry

15 mins; June 05, 2023

'Silence = Death:' What single-payer advocates can learn from AIDS activists

20 mins; May 29, 2023

The shocking influence of skin color on health care

14 mins; May 22, 2023

The toxic brew of sexism & racism in American medicine

18 mins; May 15, 2023

Making the case for single payer: When you've got yours, why fight for everyone else?

14 mins; May 08, 2023

Labor's brutal tradeoff - health care or pensions?

12 mins; May 01, 2023

How hospitals & insurers drive soaring healthcare costs

18 mins; April 24, 2023

'Scot free from scrutiny?' The overlooked role of hospitals in America's healthcare fiasco

18 mins; April 17, 2023

Rethinking the path to winning single payer

18 mins; April 10, 2023

Why we need more women lawmakers — and how to help them win

13 mins; April 03, 2023

Poverty & Policy: A Woman Lawmaker's Perspective

15 mins; March 27, 2023

Health care or rent? The Medicare Advantage dilemma

16 mins; March 20, 2023

How would hospitals get paid under single payer?

18 mins; March 13, 2023

'Social triage': How patient transfers help rich hospitals stay rich

17 mins; March 06, 2023

Charity Care? 'If you don't ask, they're not going to tell you'

9 mins; February 27, 2023

'How am I going to pay this?' The struggle to afford care in America

10 mins; February 20, 2023

Medicare privatization, ACO REACH & the ethics of for-profit health care

16 mins; February 13, 2023

Corporate health care? It's NOT what the doctor ordered!

16 mins; February 06, 2023

'Becoming Our Authentic Selves:' Obstacles to Gender-Affirming Health Care

15 mins; January 30, 2023

Better off dead? The unbearable burden of medical debt

15 mins; January 23, 2023

Insured? You're not immune from medical debt

18 mins; January 16, 2023

'Legalized manslaughter for profit?' Grieving dad demands change

15 mins; January 09, 2023

Gig worker, freelancer, self-employed? The struggle for affordable health care in America

9 mins; January 02, 2023

American freelancers' healthcare hustle

14 mins; December 26, 2022

How hospital consolidation inflates prices & hurts patients

16 mins; December 19, 2022

Marble lobbies & grand pianos: How America's nonprofit hospitals make bank

16 mins; December 12, 2022

Is Medicare Advantage too good to be true?

12 mins; December 05, 2022

'Treasure & lives' at stake as states fight for guaranteed health care

15 mins; November 28, 2022

'Sea change' or 'status quo?' The midterms & U.S. health policy

16 mins; November 21, 2022

Medicare Disadvantage and the Medigap Trap

17 mins; November 14, 2022

Secret rules, denials & fraud: The dark side of Medicare Advantage

16 mins; November 07, 2022

Charged & overcharged: Why some Americans seek health care abroad

17 mins; October 31, 2022

How much could you save with single payer? Now, you can do the math!

10 mins; October 24, 2022

Medicare drug coverage? 'The system is not designed to help you'

16 mins; October 17, 2022

'No Rhyme or Reason:' Prescription Drug Pricing in America

17 mins; October 10, 2022

Decommodifying health care and housing

12 mins; October 03, 2022

Winning Health Care for Immigrants: The California Precedent

15 mins; September 26, 2022

'Out in the Cold:' America's deadly un-insurance problem

16 mins; September 19, 2022

Even the rich suffer from America's wack healthcare system

16 mins; September 12, 2022

Is The Tide Turning for Medicare for All?

9 mins; September 05, 2022

How Big Pharma makes a killing on patients' suffering

17 mins; August 29, 2022

The politics of pregnancy: Is parenthood destiny or choice in America?

16 mins; August 22, 2022

'Thrown into chaos.' The shifting abortion landscape in post-Dobbs America

18 mins; August 15, 2022

When Having Health Insurance Doesn't Help

8 mins; August 08, 2022

Punished for being poor? Battling medical debt in America

16 mins; August 01, 2022

A perfect storm: racism, chronic Illness & medical debt

16 mins; July 25, 2022

'Where the fight begins.' Provider networks & LGBTQ patients

14 mins; July 18, 2022

'Safe Spaces.' Health care and the LGBTQ community

17 mins; July 11, 2022

Behind the fight against corporate negligence

13 mins; July 04, 2022

The immigrant workers' struggle for life and dignity

11 mins; June 27, 2022

Essential but excluded: Farmworkers face healthcare hurdles

15 mins; June 20, 2022

Connecting the dots: A legislative path to healthcare justice?

15 mins; June 13, 2022

Living sicker, dying younger in the richest country on Earth

17 mins; June 06, 2022

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