Latest Corporate profiteering Podcast Episodes

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

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - November 22, 2023 16:00 - 16 minutes
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 corpora...

Save Medicare Act

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - July 18, 2023 20:00 - 6 minutes
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 i...

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

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - May 26, 2023 17:00 - 15 minutes
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 re...

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

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - April 20, 2023 21:00 - 16 minutes
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 re...

Medicare for All: Everyone Does Better When Everybody is Covered

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - October 28, 2022 04:00 - 23 minutes
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 un...

Private Equity Healthcare

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - April 12, 2022 05:00 - 16 minutes
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 in...

Medicare Advantage: Trojan Horse for Privatization of Medicare

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - January 25, 2022 01:00 - 10 minutes
 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 - Hea...

U.S. Profit-Centered Healthcare

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - January 25, 2022 00:00 - 12 minutes
 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 shareholde...

Libby, Montana: Roadmap to Medicare for All

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - October 27, 2021 20:00 - 7 minutes
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....

Neoliberalism yields Wealthcare, not healthcare

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - February 10, 2021 22:00 - 7 minutes
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 hav...

U.S. Profit-Driven Healthcare

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - September 12, 2020 03:00 - 12 minutes
 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 shareholde...

False 'Choice' of Private Health Insurance

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - September 12, 2020 03:00 - 13 minutes
 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 Candidat...

North Denver: Human & Environmental Sacrifice Zone

Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast - December 06, 2019 01:00 - 16 minutes
 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 Pri...