Latest Singlepayer Podcast Episodes
The single-payer quandary: What would you do with an extra $5,000 a year?
Code WACK! - April 23, 2024 12:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! How would single-payer, Medicare for All affect the experience of getting care? Would it make it easier to find and see a primary care doctor? And just as importantly, how much money could individuals and families save under a state or national single-payer system? ...
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Criminal Injustice
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - April 20, 2024 16:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsMumia Abu-Jamal has spent the last forty-two of his seventy years on Earth behind the bars of a Pennsylvania state prison, twenty-nine and a half of those on Death Row based on a dubious and extremely flawed and biased conviction for murder. Today, we explore his story and what it tells us about...
Simplicity, savings & equity? The single-payer solution
Code WACK! - April 15, 2024 12:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! What the heck is going on with Medicare for All in California? Can single-payer advocates overcome their differences and finally win health care for all in the Golden State? What’s the significance of two recent bills, Senate Bill 770, and Assembly Bill 2200, in ac...
Saving Israel and Palestine
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - April 13, 2024 13:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss what's motivating anti-Palestinian extremism in Israel, how the U.S. has been complicit in Israel's theft of Palestinian territory and genocide against the Palestinian people, and what the United Nations can do to help achieve...
What's at stake in 2024? Your health care
Code WACK! - April 08, 2024 12:30 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! Will California’s new single payer bill, CalCare, be a tough sell for the state’s legislature, even if most of the state’s residents want Medicare for All? What political hurdles must be cleared before such a bill would pass? And what would it mean for single payer ef...
Infectious Generosity
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - April 06, 2024 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Chris Anderson, author of “Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading” where he explains how techniques for tapping into the potential of “the internet to turbocharge generosity” can fund and scale-up bold, audacious projects for the common good. Chris Anderson is t...
How California’s latest single-payer bill would revolutionize health care
Code WACK! - April 01, 2024 12:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! Once again, a new single-payer bill, AB 2200 or CalCare, sponsored by the California Nurses Association, has been introduced in the California state legislature. How will it help save lives? Will it break the bank, or will it save us money? What’s different about thi...
Live Taping w/ the Father of Bad Faith Insurance Law
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 30, 2024 17:33 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsNot a lot of lawyers can say that they helped create a whole new legal field, but William Shernoff can. On this week's episode, Ralph welcomes trailblazing attorney William Shernoff to discuss predatory insurance practices, and how consumers can protect themselves. This special episode was co-pr...
Forced pregnancies and racial bias: A deadly combination?
Code WACK! - March 25, 2024 12:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! Besides the Alabama IVF decision, how else are reproductive rights being rolled back in America? Why are some states going after emergency contraception known as the morning-after pill? What policy solutions are needed to better protect reproductive rights? To fi...
Apartheid Education/Gas Station Heroin
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 23, 2024 19:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsLegendary public school reform advocate, Jonathan Kozol, joins us to discuss his latest book “An End To Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America.” Then, we do a deep dive into the scourge that is kratom, the dangerous so-called pain relief supplement our guest, lawye...
Is 'fetal personhood' coming to your state?
Code WACK! - March 18, 2024 12:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! Where are we today when it comes to reproductive rights in America? And what does the latest IVF case in Alabama mean for reproductive justice and healthcare equity in America? To find out, we spoke to Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan, a fellow at The Century Foundation, wher...
America, Stop Trying to Make Nuclear Power Happen. It's Not Going to Happen.
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 16, 2024 18:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph is joined by Tim Judson from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (N.I.R.S.) to discuss the growing support for nuclear power in Congress, and the persistent myths that fuel nuclear advocates' false hopes for a nuclear future. Then, Ralph pays tribute to Boeing whistleblower John B...
What's fueling America's dreadful nursing home care
Code WACK! - March 11, 2024 13:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! Are regulations meant to protect nursing home residents being enforced? How is understaffing at the California Dept of Public Health affecting nursing home regulation? Are for-profit and nonprofit nursing homes comparable when it comes to the quality of care residents...
Tribe Over Truth
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 09, 2024 21:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph speaks to law professor, Barbara McQuade, who specializes in national security issues and has written a book that outlines the very real threat to American democracy, “Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America.” Also, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson sums up Israeli goals in i...
'A race to the bottom:' How U.S. nursing homes are failing us
Code WACK! - March 04, 2024 13:13 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! The COVID pandemic devastated nursing homes and other long-term care facilities highlighting the need for major reforms. What are the policies behind the often dismal performance of the nursing home industry? What policy changes have been made so far and why are nu...
Bishop William Barber
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 02, 2024 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Bishop William Barber from the Poor People's Campaign to discuss their March 2nd mass moral march on State Assemblies and their efforts to mobilize millions of poor and low-wage voters. Then, Ralph is joined by Washington Post health reporter Dan Diamond to discuss his team's rece...
How Medicare ACOs restrict care and offer dangerous incentives
Code WACK! - February 26, 2024 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! Why is tying a medical provider’s pay to the outcomes of their patients a bad idea? Why else should we be concerned about Accountable Care Organizations and the privatization of traditional Medicare? To find out, we spoke to Dr. Ana Malinow, who spent three dec...
Practical Radicals
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - February 24, 2024 19:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Professor Stephanie Luce of the City University of New York, who has co-authored “Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World,” and together they outline the challenges and the strategies that face underdogs trying to change the system. Plus, our resident constitutio...
'You're not safe': How middlemen are corrupting traditional Medicare
Code WACK! - February 19, 2024 13:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! You've probably heard about the dangers of Medicare Advantage, but did you know that traditional Medicare is being privatized too? How is this corrupting our healthcare system even more and what does this mean for patients? To find out, we spoke to Dr. Ana Ma...
Labor for a Ceasefire/ Trump's Cult of Personality
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - February 17, 2024 19:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph is joined by labor activist Gene Bruskin to discuss how labor leaders are joining with Progressive lawmakers to demand a ceasefire in Gaza, and the true meaning of solidarity. Then Ralph welcomes Rick Perlstein— historian, chronicler of American conservativism, and author of Nixonland—to e...
'Nothing about us without us!' The trans community fights back
Code WACK! - February 12, 2024 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! Some states are making it easier for trans and non-binary individuals to get gender-affirming care but in other states, a record number of laws have been passed to outlaw – or limit – such care. What kind of toll does this take on people in the trans community, their ...
Slanted Opinions on Gaza/One Family’s Tragedy
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - February 10, 2024 18:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Janine Jackson, of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and producer and host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show “CounterSpin” to give us her take on the corporate media landscape and in particular how the major outlets are opining on the crisis in Gaza. Then, Palestinian...
Transgender denied! Healthcare stigma & discrimination in rural America
Code WACK! - February 05, 2024 13:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! What unique challenges do transgender individuals face when it comes to accessing health care - especially in rural America? Why is gender affirming care considered potentially life saving for trans and nonbinary individuals? How do inaccessible health care, employment...
Mad as Hell
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - February 03, 2024 19:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Eva Borgwardt from the grassroots Jewish-American organization IfNotNow to bust the myth that Palestinian rights and Jewish safety are mutually exclusive. Then, Ralph is joined by CPA and corporate accountability advocate Dr. Ralph Estes to discuss his book “Fight the Corpocracy, ...
A life-saving Rx for Skid Row? Methadone, harm reduction & reparations
Code WACK! - January 29, 2024 13:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! What can be done about the fentanyl crisis on Los Angeles’ Skid Row that disproportionately affects Black residents? What policy solutions are needed? In light of the historical evidence of racial disparities in the criminal justice and healthcare systems, should re...
Grassroots Groups for Gaza
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - January 27, 2024 19:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes leaders from two grassroots groups advocating against the war on Gaza. First, from Tel Aviv, we are joined by Ido Setter of “Standing Together” a movement aimed at mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice. T...
From Hollywood to Skid Row: What's behind LA County's ballooning overdose deaths?
Code WACK! - January 22, 2024 13:10 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! More than 3,000 people died of drug overdoses in Los Angeles County alone in 2022 and last October, Hollywood actor Matthew Perry, of “Friends” fame, became one of the latest overdose victims when he accidentally died of acute effects of ketamine at his Los Angeles hom...
Building Biologist Reveals Integral Connection to Home and Health
Living In The Solution with Dr. Elaina George - January 21, 2024 04:17 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsCathy Cooke, a certified Holistic Nutritionist, Building Biologist and Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist discusses the integral connection between your home and health. As a certified expert in Holistic Nutrition and Building Biology, Cathy digs deep to address underlying imbalances in the ...
Conscientious Objector/Israeli Agents
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - January 20, 2024 18:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsAttribution: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages Ralph welcomes Josh Paul, the State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden Administration’s policy of unconditional arms transfers to Israel in the response to the attacks of October 7th. Th...
Can we stem the tide of healthcare inflation?
Code WACK! - January 15, 2024 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis time on Code WACK! Can California’s new Office of Health Care Affordability stem the rising tide of healthcare inflation? Are similar efforts to rein in healthcare costs happening in other states? And what does the creation of the Office mean about the chance for single-payer, Medica...
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