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Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast

13 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -

Truthseekers - Health Justice is a Podcast that challenges the false corporate narrative underlying social injustice and the erosion of U.S. democracy. Truthseekers - Health Justice addresses the flawed concepts and the corporate power structure underlying the failed U.S. commercial health insurance model, as well as the sacrifice of human and environmental health to the corporate bottom line. More Podcasts at Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw__m5s6qrfljXiBxmD9oMg

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Medicare (Dis)Advantage Fraud: Bleeding the Medicare Trust Fund

November 22, 2023 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB

LISTEN  Medicare (DIS)Advantage Fraud: Milking the Medicare Trust Fund   In Project: Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast The U.S. is the only nation that places profiteering middlemen between patients and their doctors. Since its inception, Medicare Advantage has been manipulated by corporate interests as an instrument for wealth transfer upward. The Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services has reported that fixed monthly capitated payments made to Medicare Advantage on...

Save Medicare Act

July 18, 2023 20:00 - 6 minutes - 4.56 MB

Three congress members, Reps. Mark Pocan, Jan Schakowsky and Ro Khanna, reintroduced the Save Medicare Act on February 1, 2023. The Act calls for renaming Medicare Advantage "Private Insurance," as it is not Medicare, nor is it an advantage. Rather Medicare Advantage has been gamed by private insurers to inflate profits by denying healthcare coverage. By design, Medicare Advantage has overcharged health costs by billions of dollars annually, draining the Medicare Trust Fund. In truth, the i...

Medicare (DIS)Advantage FRAUD: Milking the Medicare Trust Fund

May 26, 2023 17:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MB

The U.S. is the only nation that places profiteering middlemen between patients and their doctors. Since its inception, Medicare Advantage has been manipulated by corporate interests as an instrument for wealth transfer upward. The Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services has reported that fixed monthly capitated payments to Medicare Advantage on behalf of each patient perversely incentivizes inappropriate denial of healthcare in order to increase insurers' profits, costing ...

Medicare (DIS)Advantage FRAUD: MILKING the Medicare Trust Fund

April 20, 2023 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB

The U.S. is the only nation that places profiteering middlemen between patients and their doctors. Since its inception, Medicare Advantage has been manipulated by corporate interests as an instrument for wealth transfer upward. The Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services has reported that fixed monthly capitated payments made to Medicare Advantage on behalf of each patient perversely incentivizes inappropriate denial of healthcare in order to increase insurers' profits, cos...

Medicare for All: Everyone Does Better When Everybody is Covered

October 28, 2022 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

Four doctors address the effects of the lack of universal health care in the U.S. and the fact that the U.S. spends 1.7 to 2 times more than any other nation, and has worse health outcomes. The U.S. fractured Social Compact contrasts with every other developed nation, all of which prioritize universal health care. In a 2016 TEDx Talk, Dr. Anthony Iton contrasts the Social Compact of Canada, where he grew up, with the U.S. lack of Social Compact. Upon arriving at Johns Hopkins Medical to stu...

Private Equity Healthcare

April 12, 2022 05:00 - 16 minutes - 11.9 MB

The takeover of management of many sectors of healthcare by Wall St. Private Equity firms, Hedge Funds and other corporate investors over a period of decades, coincides with worsening U.S. health outcomes - e.g., reduced life expectancy and increased maternal and child mortality.  In order to inflate profits, investment management firms commonly cut staffing, pay, benefits, and short equipment, even as some board-certified emergency physicians are replaced with less qualified practitioners. ...

Medicare Advantage: Trojan Horse for Privatization of Medicare

January 25, 2022 01:00 - 10 minutes - 7.15 MB

 The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 was designed to enhance the bottom line of big PhRMA and Medicare Advantage health insurers. The Act set the stage for subsequent efforts by the health care industry in collaboration with Congress to privatize Medicare. Listen to more: Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcasts Support the show (https://www.denveropenmedia.org/podcast/library#truthseekers)

U.S. Profit-Centered Healthcare

January 25, 2022 00:00 - 12 minutes - 8.87 MB

 The U.S. is the only advanced country that prioritizes profit over healthcare access. Retired Emergency Medicine Specialist Dr. Vincent Markovchick remarks that the U.S. has the costliest health insurance model, with numerous segments of the economy milking large profits. Ever larger shareholder profits are sought by venture capitalist investor-owned health groups. Those seeking healthcare run the risk of out-of-network "surprise billing" by investor-owned free-standing emergency rooms, doc...

Libby, Montana: Roadmap to Medicare for All

October 27, 2021 20:00 - 7 minutes - 5.47 MB

In response to high morbidity and mortality rates caused by an environmental health disaster due to asbestos mining in Libby and northwest Montana, Sen. Max Baucus added a section, Amendment 1881 A to the Social Security Act as a provision to the Affordable Care Act as it was drafted in 2009-10. The intent was to enroll everyone in the affected areas of Libby, Montana and the northwest area of the state in the national Medicare program - without qualifications. The model of provision of Med...

Neoliberalism yields Wealthcare, not healthcare

February 10, 2021 22:00 - 7 minutes - 5.34 MB

Since the 1970s when the neoliberal economy began to take hold, the cost of healthcare has continually risen. Placing profit at the center of healthcare, private equity firms began to purchase large sectors of U.S. health care to milk large profits. As costs have soared, U.S. health outcomes have precipitously declined. Yale history professor Timothy Snyder has related his near-death experience while seeking U.S. healthcare in 2019.  Snyder writes in his book "Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty...

U.S. Profit-Driven Healthcare

September 12, 2020 03:00 - 12 minutes - 8.77 MB

 The U.S. is the only advanced country that prioritizes profit over healthcare access. Retired Emergency Medicine Specialist Dr. Vincent Markovchick remarks that the U.S. has the costliest health insurance model, with numerous segments of the economy milking large profits. Ever larger shareholder profits are sought by venture capitalist investor-owned health groups. Those seeking healthcare run the risk of out-of-network "surprise billing" by investor-owned free-standing emergency rooms, doc...

False 'Choice' of Private Health Insurance

September 12, 2020 03:00 - 13 minutes - 9.01 MB

 Our guest is Dr. Vincent Markovchick, emergency room doctor for 40 years, 20 years as director of Denver Health Emergency Services.  The podcast begins with clips of candidate and media comments echoing industry talking points regarding health care reform. Represented are presidential Candidates John Delaney, Pete Buttigieg, Michael Bennet, Michael Bloomberg and Joe Biden; and 2 Colorado U.S. Senate candidates, Cory Gardner and John Hickenlooper. Also captured are remarks of 2 NPR reporter...

North Denver: Human & Environmental Sacrifice Zone

December 06, 2019 01:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MB

 North Denver Zip Code 80216 was named the most toxic Zip Code in 2017. Intersected by two highways built in the 1950s and 1960s, the North Denver communities of Globeville, Elyria and Swansea also encompass the 4-1/2 square mile Vasquez Blvd/I-70 Superfund Site, placed on the Superfund Site Priority List in 1999. In the wake of superficial remediation of the Superfund Site, many have questioned plans by the City and the Colorado Department of Transportation to triple the footprint of I-70 a...