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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.

Growing Old in America? This Pod's for You.

16 mins; May 30, 2022

What Happens When a Nurse Stands Up & Gets Loud?

16 mins; May 23, 2022

Saving the American Economy with Single Payer

13 mins; May 16, 2022

Single Payer: Have We Been Wrong About the Costs All Along?

12 mins; May 09, 2022

'A New Day' for California Health Care?

15 mins; May 02, 2022

'Bottom-line vampires?' How insurance companies are sucking U.S. businesses dry

19 mins; April 25, 2022

Who are the 'Big Six' taking over America's health care?

18 mins; April 18, 2022

Thom Hartmann on Why Americans Need to Take Back Our Health Care, Like Yesterday!

8 mins; April 11, 2022

'Apartheid' Health Care? Why Medicaid Isn't Cutting It for America's Poor

7 mins; April 04, 2022

HEAL California

15 mins; March 28, 2022

Healing Healthcare Trauma: Tools for Nurses and People Who Care

14 mins; March 21, 2022

Rise Up: 'They get rich while we fade away'

18 mins; March 14, 2022

When Lawmakers Fail to Act: Taking Single Payer to the People

12 mins; March 07, 2022

On The Front Lines of Washington's Single-Payer Fight

12 mins; February 28, 2022

The American Healthcare Surprise

11 mins; February 21, 2022

Beyond Pink Ribbons: One man's fight with breast cancer in America

11 mins; February 14, 2022

Single-Payer Setback, Defeat or Fail? AB 1400's Day in the Sun

16 mins; February 07, 2022

'Throwing Good Money After Bad?' Why Biden's Healthcare Strategy Isn't Enough

12 mins; January 31, 2022

'Bought & Bossed?' Why Lawmakers Keep Dropping the Ball on Single Payer

12 mins; January 24, 2022

Is it "go time" for California single payer?

17 mins; January 17, 2022

Pandemic: Preparing for a New Normal (2022 Update)

7 mins; January 10, 2022

Cruel and Stupid? Take Two. How our Healthcare System Affects Doctors and Patients

14 mins; January 03, 2022

Stress, Anxiety & the Agonizing Toll of America's Callous Healthcare System

11 mins; December 27, 2021

A devastating loss, then corporate callousness. An American healthcare story.

11 mins; December 20, 2021

How We Heal: Strategies for Tackling Community Trauma

11 mins; December 13, 2021

The tragic effects of structural violence & community trauma

12 mins; December 06, 2021

Is 'Now' Our Moment for Healthcare Justice?

12 mins; November 29, 2021

California Medicare for All? Assemblyman Ash Kalra is all in!

14 mins; November 22, 2021

The Power of Labor in California's Battle for Single Payer

12 mins; November 15, 2021

American workers' desperate fight for healthcare security

11 mins; November 08, 2021

Thom Hartmann: Now's the time to fix our 'bloodsucking leech' of a healthcare system. Here's how.

10 mins; November 01, 2021

Tune in! Thom Hartmann discusses his new book & the racist history behind America's ongoing healthcare fiasco

17 mins; October 25, 2021

Wall Street's Latest Attack on Traditional Medicare

13 mins; October 18, 2021

The Disadvantages of Medicare Advantage

11 mins; October 11, 2021

Is California's healthcare future in the hands of a commission?

12 mins; October 04, 2021

Making Medicare Even Better? The Promise of Improved Medicare for All

10 mins; September 27, 2021

Decolonizing Health Care

16 mins; September 20, 2021

INFLAMED: Colonialism, Climate Change & Health Care

18 mins; September 13, 2021

Fighting for life in America's healthcare rabbit hole

10 mins; September 06, 2021

Heartless Denial: HIV Discrimination & Organ Transplants

9 mins; August 30, 2021

'Centuries of Inequities' & the COVID Crisis

10 mins; August 23, 2021

Medicine's undeniable role in U.S. racism

9 mins; August 16, 2021

Restaurant Worker Abuse? Let Us Count The Ways

8 mins; August 09, 2021

Why Restaurant Workers are Singing the Blues: Former Nashville Server Speaks Out

9 mins; August 02, 2021

Cherry picking? Lemon dropping? How health insurers weed out sick people.

7 mins; July 26, 2021

Did NY Dems drop the ball on Medicare for All -- again?

10 mins; July 19, 2021

Hallucinating & Hypertensive: A Long COVID Nightmare

11 mins; July 12, 2021

The Fallacy of Choice in U.S. Health Care with Dr. Stephanie Kang

10 mins; July 05, 2021

Setting the stage for health equity in America

9 mins; June 28, 2021

The $4T Elephant in the Room - U.S. Health Care

10 mins; June 21, 2021

Shareholders Before Patients - America's Healthcare Dilemma

10 mins; June 14, 2021

The Three-Front Battle for California Single Payer

9 mins; June 07, 2021

An Offense to Justice & Humanity?

8 mins; May 31, 2021

Hawaii, Vermont & Single Payer: What went wrong?

7 mins; May 24, 2021

Mental Health & Medicaid's Managed Care Mess

9 mins; May 17, 2021

What's driving U.S. doctors out of private practice?

8 mins; May 10, 2021

Health Insurance: America's 'chaotic deal with the devil?'

9 mins; May 03, 2021

Unemployed & Uninsured in a Pandemic

8 mins; April 26, 2021

Taking on Corporate Healthcare in America

10 mins; April 19, 2021

'Critical Condition:' How to Save American Health Care?

10 mins; April 12, 2021

The Scoop on California's New Medicare for All Bill

9 mins; April 05, 2021

The David & Goliath Fight for Medicare for All

8 mins; March 29, 2021

America's Racial Generation Gap & Healthcare Reform

9 mins; March 22, 2021

The fight for healthcare equity in Washington State

8 mins; March 15, 2021

Free to leave? Domestic abuse & health care

10 mins; March 08, 2021

How America's broken healthcare system fails victims of domestic abuse

10 mins; March 01, 2021

Pesticides, Accidents and ICE: Migrant farmworkers risk their lives to put food on your table

9 mins; February 22, 2021

Radio Bilingue's Hugo Morales - from farmworker to public radio mogul

10 mins; February 15, 2021

Battered by illness, medical bills in America's South

12 mins; February 08, 2021

Any port in America's healthcare storm?

10 mins; February 01, 2021

Stigma, Incarceration and Coronavirus - A Triple Threat

10 mins; January 25, 2021

Equity & Respect: A Prescription for a Healthy Society

13 mins; January 18, 2021

Grieving dad won't stop fighting for Medicare for All

14 mins; January 11, 2021

How safe is the coronavirus vaccine? Dr. Rob Davidson weighs in

7 mins; January 04, 2021

The Unmasked Truth with Dr. Rob Davidson, Committee to Protect Medicare

6 mins; December 28, 2020

PNHP's Dr. Susan Rogers: Stop blaming patients and start asking questions

11 mins; December 21, 2020

Been there. PNHP's Dr. Susan Rogers on racism in U.S. medicine

9 mins; December 14, 2020

What Now for California's Medicare for All Movement?

8 mins; December 07, 2020

Does a Biden White House spell the end of Medicare for All?

6 mins; November 30, 2020

Will the legal challenge to Obamacare fail?

6 mins; November 23, 2020

Obamacare on Trial - What's at Stake?

9 mins; November 16, 2020

Worry-free health care? Not even in LaLa Land!

6 mins; November 09, 2020

Don't 'break a leg!' Health benefit changes are coming to Tinseltown

6 mins; November 02, 2020

Lights! Camera! Uninsured! Hollywood elites face healthcare hassles

6 mins; October 26, 2020

'HEL-LO!' to healthcare uncertainty," says Laverne & Shirley's Squiggy

6 mins; October 19, 2020

America's Avoidable Tragedy? with Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

6 mins; October 12, 2020

Mayors for Medicare for All: Upending the Status Quo

6 mins; October 05, 2020

The fight for transformative, accessible and inclusive health care for all with Angelica Salas

6 mins; September 28, 2020

Immigrant Justice: For some, it never comes

6 mins; September 21, 2020

Essential Yet Undocumented?

6 mins; September 14, 2020

The Fight for Immigration Reform, Health Care & Education, with Angelica Salas, CHIRLA

6 mins; September 10, 2020

Complex Trauma & Mental Illness on Skid Row

6 mins; September 03, 2020

How Medicare for All Could Help End Homelessness

6 mins; August 31, 2020

Coronavirus & Skid Row

6 mins; August 25, 2020

Domestic Violence, Homelessness & Health Care

6 mins; August 17, 2020

California's Healthcare Reform: The Players, Policy & Politics

6 mins; August 07, 2020

Health Care's Transformative Moment

6 mins; August 04, 2020

How to Win Medicare for All

6 mins; July 27, 2020

Is Coronavirus the Health Equity X-factor?

6 mins; July 21, 2020

PPE, Paper Bags & A Pandemic

6 mins; July 17, 2020

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