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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Bloomington Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.
This month we interview Caeden Windschitl, 2nd year medical student at the U of Minneapolis Twin Cities campus. He is president of Students for a National Health Program, SNaHP, Twin Cities chapter, and is a board member of Physicians for a National Health Program, PNHP. When the first year medical students found that United Healthcare was teaching a class as part of the medical school curriculum, and it was the only class they were going to receive in school about the US healthcare system, the students organized in protest, and the class was withdrawn.
Caeden WindschitSelections from the podcast:
Caeden – I came into medical school, and within three weeks everyone got an email sent to their inbox about this new great class that the University medical school was going be offering. And right front and center was that UnitedHealth Group would be teaching it. UnitedHealth Group, who is now the fourth-largest company in the world by revenue, UnitedHealth Group who we had heard so much about in recent years, UnitedHealth Group who is 30 minutes away from the University of Minnesota campus. This class was to be taught on the UnitedHealth Group campus to University of Minnesota medical students about health insurance- specifically value-based healthcare. Sounds absurd. To rub salt in the wound UnitedHealth Group was donating some unknown amount of money to the University of Minnesota Healthcare Foundation to put on this course. Some professors from the University of Minnesota published a paper encouraging the design of coursework partnered with health insurance companies for other medical students to implement themselves. In addition to this, this is the only course that the University of Minnesota Medical School provides concerning health insurance. For any students that want to learn about health insurance or health systems, this is their course. From the start everyone in my year was like, ‘Wow what even is this?’ We already knew that our voices would not be heard as individuals. This course had already had a bit of a trial run. And those students had already voiced their concerns with the course. And with this course as well the CEO of UnitedHealth Group at the time even came down and took three hours out of his day to talk to the students. At the time, in the trial run there were 10 students enrolled in it. We knew that this course was both important to UnitedHealth Group, as well as something from the article that was published by the University of Minnesota Medical School, something that the U wanted to continue pursuing. We knew that it was more than just this course that was at stake here. From the start this sort of kicked off our Students for a National Health Program chapter ramping up on campus. The chapter had been simmering down for the last few years so we used this as an opportunity to stage a bit of a protest using the group on campus. So we took to a petition. We identified many that would not be willing to sign on publicly in blatant disagreement with UnitedHealth which made it very difficult at the start. So a lot of our work was very grassroots. Me and a select group of medical students instead took to using one-on-one calls talking to individual students, getting people to sign on before we blasted it out to the entirety of the campus. At the end of it all over 90% of first-year medical students signed on to the petition to remove UnitedHealth Group from our coursework. Over 70% of second-year medical students, we had over 30 University of Minnesota medical professors sign on to our petition as well as almost 200 currently practicing physicians… The class was withdrawn and we won…
Karen – Caeden, what is your prescription for healthcare?
Caeden – I love this question. I think there’s so much to talk about! Most patients in the United States see a physician somewhere between two to three times a year. If you look at other countries that have a national healthcare service, they are visiting a physician between five to seven times on average per year. That almost double. I think the patient-physician relationship is just so much more in that sort of system. Almost it’s grounded in the health outcomes of the patient instead of this relationship with money… People are dismayed seeing their co-pay, their deductible, seeing that they can’t get certain medications. Doctors are dismayed, not just at the paperwork, but at the fact that often we do not get to decide what our patient receives. Instead it is someone that has not gone through schooling someone behind a desk at a health insurance company deciding that no, they cannot receive the healthcare that both me and the patient decided was necessary for them. More than anything else, I believe that a national healthcare system is the solution to bringing back patient-centered care and to bring back the patient-physician relationship.
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This month we interview Gloria Bent from Connecticut where she went through a nightmare of care denial from United Healthcare’s Medicare Advantage coverage while trying to save her husband’s life. This happened after they were forced out of their traditional Medicare program and into Medicare Advantage coverage by their retirement program. After her husband’s death she became an activist, testified before Congress, and co-founded Connecticut State Employees for Medicare Choice
Gloria BentFrom the podcast:
Karen – “You’ve been testifying before Congress, working at the Connecticut State Legislature and with your senator, Richard Blumenthal. What has that been like for you?”
Gloria- “I really appreciated working with Senator Blumenthal, and every time we spoke somewhere, it was just another affirmation of the level at which this is prevalent. We would have people telling us, ‘Yes, this has happened to us,’ or, ‘I know people that it’s happened to.’ There was some healing for me in the ability to work with his office and to speak out.”
Karen – “Gloria Bent, what is your prescription for healthcare?”
Gloria – “Ah. Um, I think profit needs to come out of it. I came to realize that the use of artificial intelligence, at least in my husband’s case, it was greed that was the enemy in this, not necessarily the use of the algorithms. I’m a big supporter of Physicians for a National Health Program. I think ultimately Medicare for All or whatever we come up with, a single payer, is the only way out of this. Because anytime you have Wall Street attacking insurance companies because they’re not making enough money for their shareholders, the patient suffers. I was surprised to learn that a Medicare Advantage plan gets a certain amount of money for however many they insure, and what they don’t spend is their’s. Having learned that, I found myself saying, ‘Is it any wonder that the level of denial is at the level that it is?’ Because that’s how they make money. I’ve read articles about UnitedHealthcare being pressured by the powers that be on Wall Street because they were spending too much on their patients and not bringing home enough reward for their shareholders.
Karen – “Gloria, thank you for talking with us today, and thank you for your dedication and your advocacy, your fierce advocacy. I’s been a pleasure to connect with you and talk about what you are doing in Connecticut to stand up and speak out.
Gloria – “Thank you for the opportunity, and thank you for doing what you’re doing in Indiana. I think these stories have to keep being told, so that people are aware.
Karen – “For our listeners, the deeper we go into Medicare Advantage, and we’ve done other interviews as well, and because PNHP did a deep dive into Medicare Advantage plans, the darker it gets. For our listeners who want to follow up on this conversation, a piece by Reed Abelson in The New York Times on June 11th [Private Medicare Plans Often Deny Access to Rehab Care, Analysis Shows] looks at the denials for care in Medicare Advantage plans that are paid a fixed amount to care for patients so they have a financial incentive to spend less on care. And to achieve savings, these plans often deny people expensive specialized inpatient care. Overall, about one in five patients appeal to insurers’ denials, and nearly all were reversed, according to the investigators’ review of denials by 19 companies in June 2024. UnitedHealth, your company, which received the highest number of requests for appeal, reversed 99.7% of its rejections according to the inspector general’s inquiry. The high percentage of denials that were overturned suggest that some people’s care, very personal for you, was inappropriately – delayed because of the insurer’s decision, and others may not have gotten the care they deserved because they never appealed.”
Another recent story from The Washington Post 6/29/26 – After her insurer denied coverage of medication, she ended up in the ER – After switching Medicare Advantage plans, a woman with a weakened immune system got tangled in the preapproval process, which the insurance industry has vowed to improve.
Please Note: Anyone reading or listening to this who is currently covered by a Medicare Advantage plan rather than Traditional Medicare, please do not feel like you should immediately drop your Advantage plan. Your plan may be what is best for you as an individual. What we are saying is that Medicare Advantage as a policy is bad policy, but in your individual situation it may make good sense. Many people with Medicare Advantage plans get good care and are happy with their coverage.
We need to change the policy. You don’t necessarily need to change your coverage, but you should understand that you may face denials and delays that would not come up with traditional Medicare.
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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.
This month we interview Karen Palmer, adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University in BritishColumbia, Canada, an independent health policy analyst, health systems researcher, and consultant. She also serves as a board advisor to Physicians for a National Health Program, PNHP, here in the US.
From the podcast:
Karen Green Stone: Karen, we recently heard you talk about the Canadian healthcare program, which is called Medicare, specifically physician recruitment to Canada, and physicians in the US choosing to move to Canada to work in the Canadian Medicare system. You said that the goal of the health ministry is to find a place for every qualified healthcare practitioner who wants to work in BC. Other provinces are doing the same. Will you please talk about what is happening with US physicians and other medical professionals moving to BC and Canada?
Karen Palmer: Yes, I will. So that is a real change from the past when it was so difficult for healthcare providers to move here from the States. Like many countries in the world, and for many reasons, Canada is facing healthcare staffing shortages, especially in family medicine and nursing and rural and remote care. In response several provinces, especially British Columbia, have launched, pretty aggressive recruitment campaigns targeting healthcare workers from the States. What I can talk about a little bit is, how many healthcare providers from the States have applied, how many have actually been hired, and why, some say that they are choosing Canada at this particular time in history. I’ll just tell you a little bit about what BC’s Minister of Health said in June of 2025, and I’ll quote her. She said that, “With the chaos and uncertainty happening in the US, we are seizing the opportunity to attract the talent we need to join and strengthen our public universal healthcare system in British Columbia.” These campaigns are attracting significant interest because Canada’s offering faster licensing pathways than in the past, a publicly funded healthcare practice for physicians, of course, and a relatively stable social and political environment. This has been supported by the Canadian Medical Association, and I’ll read you a quote from what they said, “Reducing barriers for all internationally trained physicians qualified to practice in Canada will help close critical gaps in the health workforce and make it easier in the short term for anxious US-based healthcare workers to live where quality of care meets quality of life”…**
As of March 2026, since launching its targeted US recruitment campaign in March 2025, the year before, BC has received nearly 2,800 applications from US health professionals, so nearly 3,000. Over 3,000 have expressed interest through various webinars and recruitment efforts and events. The numbers from British Columbia’s Ministry of Health show that between March 2025 and January 2026 more than 400 health professionals from the US had accepted jobs in British Columbia including 89 doctors, 42 nurse practitioners, 216 nurses, and 23 allied health professionals…**
A major reason healthcare professionals are leaving is dissatisfaction with the US healthcare system. I think many US healthcare professionals, we all know this, say that they are worn out by insurance paperwork and corporate healthcare systems and staffing shortages and workplace stress. I mean, those first two, the insurance paperwork, we don’t have a multi-payer system in Canada. We have a single-payer system for medically necessary hospital and physician services, so there’s one payer in each province and territory. And we don’t have these corporate structures to the extent that you have in the States. Some have specifically mentioned that they want to practice in a universal publicly funded system instead of dealing with so many insurance companies. Another reason is political and social concerns in the United States. Some have cited political polarization, reproductive rights issues, gun violence…
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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.
This month we interview Ethan Fairbanks, a fourth-year medical student at Indiana University School of Medicine, soon to be Dr. Ethan Fairbanks as of May 15th this year when he graduates. He will be leaving Bloomington for Grand Rapids, Michigan for his residency program at Michigan State University in internal medicine. Ethan is the current president of Students for a National Health Program in Indiana, SNaHP, the student organization of Physicians for a National Health Program, PNHP.
From the podcast: “I started growing up on the east side of Indianapolis, far east side, past 465. My family eventually, we lost our house in the financial crisis, wrongful foreclosure. We kept moving further and further east as time went on, and eventually landed in New Palestine. Money’s quite tight, when you’re losing your house or when you’re having to move, and parents working sales jobs, things like that, you come to notice when something is not present that you need, such as healthcare, such as maybe the toy you want when you’re really young. Eventually, I decided medicine was the place that I could do the most good. During medical school, it’s a very taxing, very time-consuming thing to be a part of. Frankly, during the first two years, most of my time was just spent trying to get by. It came to a head going into my third year, into my clinical year. I think this would be back in 2024, I found myself thinking things are only getting worse in healthcare, feeling as though I’m going to be graduating into, frankly, a dark age of American healthcare…”
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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.
This month we interview Lori Clark, the National Organizer with Physicians for a National Health Program, and Helen Bassett, a fourth year medical student from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and founder of the Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) chapter at her medical school. We discuss the exciting organizing that SNaHP students are doing.
Helen Bassett, medical student. Lori Clark, PNHP National Organzier
From the podcast: Karen – “What is your prescription for healthcare?” Helen – “I think right now my prescription for healthcare is just a little more compassion. I think reminding ourselves that healthcare fundamentally is connection with fellow human beings and just wanting the best for everyone. Really brings us back, I think. There’s a lot of talk about burnout and the healthcare system just completely crumbling at the seams. And, I think when we reconnect with our compassion, it really helps protect us from what we’re noticing.
“You know, the reason why I got involved in this fight as a high schooler, I saw one of my favorite teachers get diagnosed with cancer. Students and the whole school fundraised $70,000 for her cancer treatment. Obviously I’m very happy that we were able to do that, and it’s a great accomplishment, but I remember thinking the entire time just how sad it was. Not only that she’s fighting cancer, but that she had to fundraise her own money to just be able to pay for the treatment that she needed to save her own life. And so for me, fundamentally, I just really care about other people. I think if you need to go see a doctor to get cared for something, then you should be able to, regardless of your ability to pay.
“And that fundamentally just comes down to compassion. So that’s what I want to leave us with today.”
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This month we interview Dr Ed Weisbart from St Louis, a frequent guest on the program. On his last few visits he has discussed Medicare, but today’s focus is on Medicaid and the hundreds of millions of dollars Indiana could save if we de-privatized our state Medicaid program, that is, eliminating the private companies that are middlemen. There is an opportunity to realize huge savings through avoided excessive administrative costs and profit, improve access to healthcare, make Hoosiers healthier, and salvage our embattled Medicaid program.
From the podcast: “For Indiana, we estimate anywhere from a 10 to 17% reduction in the Medicaid managed care budget. That means you could expect to save $200 to $340 million a year, and the savings start happening fairly quickly when a state decides to do this. And by the way, as physicians, we are here to tell you with complete confidence that you will be improving the health of people on your Medicaid program.”
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This month we interview Tracey Hutchings-Goetz with Hoosier Action, a homegrown community organization rooted in small-town Southern Indiana, and led by their members. Hoosier Action has been a leader in advocating for the Indiana Medicaid program and supporting Hoosiers who need healthcare.
Tracey Hutchings-Goetz
From the podcast: ”Medicaid members do actually have rights, and Medicaid members do have things that they can do if they are kicked off in error. Those things include reaching out to Indiana Legal Services or filing an appeal, or reaching out to their elected officials, both at the state and federal level to intervene on their behalf.”
Medicaid: Know Your Rights with Indiana Justice Project
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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.
This month we interview Medicare for All Indiana co-founder Dr. Rob Stone to talk about the effects of the Medicaid cuts that have passed at the state and federal levels. This will impact Hoosiers throughout the state and is likely to cause the closure of many small town and rural hospitals.
From the podcast:
“It’s estimated that Medicaid cuts could lead to the closure of as many as 16 rural hospitals in Indiana, and Indiana hospitals have already begun reducing their services in anticipation of the federal cuts. Communities can expect layoffs and closures. Ball State economist Michael J. Hicks says that as a result of these cuts, hospitals will lose 15% or more of their annual operating budgets each year…
“These cuts are going increase costs for everybody. The insurance companies have already announced they are going to raise their rates for 2026. We’re all in this same boat together.
“Health insurance companies make a profit by denying care to sick people. I went to medical school to take care of sick people. It’s that simple.
“We have to figure out how to get all these middle people out of the middle and make it a simple transaction. We’ve already proven that Medicare works because Medicare has been taking care of the oldest, sickest, and most expensive of us for 60 years.
The question is whether either political party has the courage to fight for universal healthcare, or whether they will keep tinkering with a system designed to fail, and Americans will continue to die from rationed care and end up in medical bankruptcy. Or, will we choose the option that has been hiding in plain sight for 60 years, Medicare for All?”
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This month we interview Dr. Peter Hotez, Professor and Dean of Baylor College of Medicine’s National School of Tropical Medicine in Houston, Texas. He’s a pediatrician and public health advocate and on the forefront of vaccine development. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 for his “work to develop and distribute a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine to people of the world without patent limitation.” His books include Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad and, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning.
From the podcast:
Karen Green Stone – “Dr. Hotez, thank you for taking time away from your very important work to talk with us today. We’re so glad that we met you and when we asked you to talk with us for the interview, we thought it was a long shot, but you responded right away. It was incredible, and we appreciate your sincere kindness and willingness to talk with us and to our listeners about your academic research work and your healthcare advocacy work.”
Peter Hotez – “I’ll just say one thing. It’s an opportunity for me. Because I don’t often get to speak to people in our middle part of the country. I mean, I can go on CNN and MSNBC until I’m blue in the face or at PBS NewsHour, and I do it, and I love it, and it makes an impact, but it also doesn’t reach a whole segment of the US population.
So, a local radio station in Indiana asking me to talk, I’m all in! I mean, great, to me, that’s an opportunity.”
His upcoming book is Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World
Here is a longer podcast going into greater depth on many of the issues we discussed with him.
Here is the PLOS article for students going into scientific research careers mentioned in the show.
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This month we interview Wade Catt, an MD/PhD student at Indiana University School of Medicine. His PhD will be in Sociology and he has been looking at how the current threats to Medicaid could have disastrous consequences in Indiana.
Wade Catt MD/PhD candidate
From the podcast: “ When we are looking at rural hospitals closing because Medicaid is being cut, when we’re looking at the congressional budget office’s, most conservative estimation is multiple millions of people are going be losing healthcare coverage if this budget bill passes, we’re looking at a pretty dire situation in terms of what the healthcare landscape is going to be in the next few years.”
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This month we interview Dr Diljeet Singh, the President of Physicians for a National Health Program, to talk about the recent reintroduction in Congress of the Medicare for All Bill in the House and the Senate. There are reasons for hope! Dr Singh was our guest previously in January 2024.
Diljeet Singh MD
From the podcast:
Karen Green Stone: The Medicare for All bill was reintroduced this week in both houses of Congress, The House of Representatives, HR 3069 and the Senate S 1506. Why is Medicare for all a symbol of hope?
Dr. Singh: The American people clearly, clearly, clearly are not happy with healthcare in in this country. It is not often that we have a clean, clear bill that will address so many of the shortcomings of our healthcare system in one bill, and the idea is that we can have universal coverage: Everybody gets all the healthcare they need without copays, without deductibles, without wasting money on bureaucracy and profit and shareholder dividends, without worrying about conflicts of interest. This bill offers Americans all of those things. It does so without costing more than our current healthcare system. As a matter of fact, the plan is to add in dental, vision, hearing coverage because we can afford it if we’re not wasting money on bureaucracy and profit.
So to me, there’s nothing more hopeful than that.
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This month we interview Dr. Ed Weisbart, a physician in St Louis who is the board Secretary of Physicians for a National Health Program, PNHP, and Chair of the Missouri Chapter of PNHP. He has been our guest several times before.
”When you ask me what we can do, we need to become aware of these attacks to Medicare, we need to fight them, we need to speak out, we need to organize around that. We need to be right there shoulder to shoulder with the people who are focused on the climate or focused on social security or focused on any of these other horrible crises. They’re all the same. They all have the root cause of democracy collapsing before us. If you wanted to pick one Uber issue, that’s not a heavy lift (Don’t mind my puns). If you wanted to pick something like that, it’s rescue democracy. Fight to save democracy.”
The article cited early in the podcast: Dr. Oz and the Plot Against Medicare: Medicare Advantage plans are killing seniors and bankrupting hospitals. Now the Trump administration is preparing to make them mandatory, ending Medicare as we know it.
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This month we interview Dr. Joey Ballard, a 2024 graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine, now doing an internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois Chicago. During medical school he was the president of Students for a National Health Program, SNaHP, Indianapolis, the student affiliate of Physicians for a National Health program, PNHP. He was recently featured on the national podcast sponsored by Kaiser Family Foundation An Arm and a Leg on December 30th, 2024, where he talked about his ongoing advocacy, taking many resolutions to protect patients to the American Medical Association, the AMA, the largest physician association in the U S. Dr Ballard was previously featured on Prescription for Healthcare while he was still in medical school discussing Students for a National Health Plan in May, 2022
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This month is part 2 of our interview with Dr Walter Tsou, the past president of the American Public Health Association and former health commissioner of Philadelphia. He is a board advisor to Physicians for a National Health Program, and an expert on public health, healthcare reform and healthcare finance. He recently returned from a medical educational tour of Cuba. Part 1, “What can Cuba teach us about healthcare delivery” was aired in January, 2025.
Dr. Walter Tsou (pronounced like Tsunami without the ‘nami’)
From the show:
“ There is this basic philosophical question about whether health care should be a public good, or should it be a market commodity? We can start off by asking ourselves, what is a public good? Public goods are things that we individually could not afford to do by ourselves, but could collectively. If we put our minds and our money together, we can actually achieve them. The biggest examples are things like national defense is a public good. Environmental protection is a public good. Our roads and bridges are public goods. Our hospitals and our public education system, our schools and firehouses and police stations are considered public goods because we all depend upon them. We couldn’t individually pay for them, but, if we collectively put our money together, we can achieve these things.”
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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.
This month we interview Dr Walter Tsou, the past president of the American Public Health Association and former health commissioner of Philadelphia. He is a board advisor to Physicians for a National Health Program, and an expert on public health, healthcare reform and healthcare finance. He recently returned from a medical educational tour of Cuba.
Dr. Walter Tsou (pronounced like Tsunami without the nami)
From the show:
“What we can learn from the Cuban healthcare delivery system and what we could do in the US with a single payer financing system could actually marry the best of both worlds.
“That is to say, if we had a healthcare delivery system based around primary care, where the doctors all knew their patients and could feel free to do home visits as part of their normal activities, along with our more sophisticated high tech hospitals and imaging and diagnostic services that we can do in this country, we really would have the best of both worlds. We’d have a very robust primary care program where we could easily refer people to higher level services if they need it. Then when they get better they go back to the community, to their homes, and they’re followed by their primary care doctors. That’s how a healthcare delivery system should work. And if all of it was funded through a single payer national health insurance program as part of how we care for our American people, I think we would have an incredible healthcare system.”
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This month we interview Dr Linda Rae Murray, legendary Chicago physician for the medically underserved, and a voice for social justice and health as a basic human right. She talks about the roots of Racism in Colonialism and its global implications today. And hear her “Prescription for Healthcare”.
Dr. Murray recommends looking at WEB Dubois’ foundational book Black Reconstruction.
Watch her in the movie “I Call It Murder” as a young physician in 1980s Chicago leading the fight against ambulances “dumping” poor patients that led to the EMTALA Act.
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This month we are talking with Wendell Potter who was our very first guest on Prescription for Health Care in of 2020, during the height of the COVID pandemic and just before the 2020 election of President Joe Biden. Wendell is the author of Deadly Spin and Nation on the Take. He is the president of the Center for Health and Democracy and the editor of Healthcare Uncovered.
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This month we interview our cohost Dr Rob Stone about Medicaid and Medicare fraud in the news in Indiana, and the upcoming Medicare open enrollment period and the choices seniors face in deciding between Traditional Medicare coverage or a Medicare Advantage plan.
These news items were mentioned in the podcast:
Indiana insurers, hospitals accused of Medicaid fraud in giant whistleblower lawsuit
Humana exiting Medicare Advantage in 13 markets
Mayo Clinic tells hundreds of Medicare Advantage patients to obtain new insurance to keep getting care
Elevance to acquire Indiana University Health’s insurance business
Medicare School – The 6 Key Differences Between Supplemental and Advantage Plans
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This month we interview Danielle Bargo, native Hoosier, health economist, and a doctoral student in health policy at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She published an article last year in the Indianapolis Capital Chronicle, “Why do Indiana hospitals charge more in poorer communities?” Using Indiana University Health as an example she discusses the issues around how hospitals set their prices in Indiana, and we discuss the example of Maryland where a commission sets hospital prices uniformly throughout the state.Follow Medicare for All Indiana on our Facebook page.
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This month we interview Carrie Rouse MD. Dr. Rouse is an OBGYN in Indianapolis who specializes in maternal fetal care, especially high risk pregnancy care. Dr. Rouse is an abortion provider. She is also a member of the Good Trouble Coalition, a physician group that focuses on issues of social justice, advocates for patients, public health, and evidence based medicine. She brings us up to date on the state of reproductive healthcare in Indiana.
Read the OpEd by Drs. Rouse and Caitlin Bernard in the Indy Star, September 2023, “Indiana’s abortion ban strips doctors of ‘ability to provide evidence-based care”
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This month we interview Dr. Claudia Fegan, the Chief Medical Officer of Cook County Health in Chicago and the National Coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program. In her current and past leadership roles in PNHP, she has appeared on national television and radio programs on behalf of the organization and has testified before congressional committees on a wide range of health care issues. In this episode we discuss EMTALA, the 1986 Federal “Anti-Dumping” Law and how it is in the news today because of the restrictions some states are putting on abortion care.
Dr. Fegan
In the interview Dr Fegan mentions the movie “I Call It Murder” about the story behind the passage of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act EMTALA in 1986.
Previous Prescription for Healthcare episodes on related issues:
Prescription for Healthcare – Senator Shelli Yoder, “Legislative Update and Reproductive Rights” April, 2024Prescription for Healthcare – Dr Gabe Bosslet, “The Good Trouble Coalition” March, 2024Follow Medicare for All Indiana on our Facebook page.
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This month we welcome back and again interview Dr. Ed Weisbart from St Louis, the national Board Secretary of Physicians for a National Health Program, and a leading researcher and expert on the problems of Medicare Advantage health plans for Seniors, as opposed to traditional Medicare.
Watch the webinar here: “TAKING ADVANTAGE – How Corporate Health Insurers Harm Seniors on Medicare.”
Read the report here.
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This month we interview Dr Matt Hoffman of Alina Health in Minnesota and Marisa Powell, lead organizer for Doctors Council, SEIU, the Service Employees International Union. Dr Hoffman, a family practitioner, was one of the leaders of the campaign that unionized more than 550 primary and urgent care physicians who work for Alina Hospitals and Clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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The New England Journal of Medicine 4/20/24 Hospital Consolidation and Physician Unionization
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This month we interview Indiana State Senator Shelli Yoder to talk about what the legislature has been doing regarding healthcare in Indiana, and especially contraception and abortion rights.
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This month we interview Dr Gabriel Bosslet, a pulmonary and critical care physician in Indianapolis and the president of the Good Trouble Coalition, a coalition of Hoosier healthcare and public health professionals who collaborate to educate, empower, and facilitate political advocacy in the areas of patient centered care, public health, and health equity.
Mentioned in the show from the Feb 25 issue of The New Yorker: One of the Last Abortion Doctors in Indiana – Caitlin Bernard is risking her career, and her safety, to care for pregnant patients.
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This month we interview Rose Roach, former director of the Minnesota Nurses Association and currently National Coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer. We talk about how nurses and doctors around the country are joining unions as they push back against the growing corporatization of the healthcare “industry.”
“Doctors and nurses are the conscience of health care. They are the voice for us as patients. Corporate health care doesn’t give two hoots about us, but not so when it comes to our doctors and our nurses. It is now evident that the only way to radically change a health care system that is nothing more than a health care marketplace these days, that is being bought up by Wall Street solely for the purpose of generating profit, is to radically engage care providers in the collective struggle that we are all in for a humane, patient-provider centered system. That’s why I believe that we are seeing more and more physicians exploring unions as a way to ensure their ability to practice medicine as they’ve been trained to do. Not to practice according to the corporate bosses who have been trained to make money. No one should profit from another human being suffering. Our doctors and nurses are coming together to fight against that ever growing focus of our health care system.” – Rose Roach
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This month we interview Diljeet Singh MD, vice president of Physicians for a National Health Program and a gynecologic oncologist and surgeon, about moral injury. This continues our conversation from our December interview with Dr. Carol Paris. Moral injury is described as a specific trauma that arises when people face situations that deeply violate their conscience or threaten their core values. Those who grapple with it can struggle with guilt, anger, and a consuming sense that they can’t forgive themselves or others. It may be related to but is not the same thing as burnout.
From our conversation with Dr Singh, “I think this issue of moral injury is really tied to trust and patients’ trust that I will do the right thing for them, that my moral compass will lead me to recommend the best things for them… I absolutely feel terrible when I do need to tell my patients, ‘I’m so sorry. You know, Mrs. Smith, I had told you we should do your surgery within a month, but we just can’t get it scheduled because we can’t get it approved’… On a bigger picture, I think that a patient who walks into my office today is less likely to trust me than a patient who walked in 10 years ago.”
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Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ They’re suffering from moral injury. By Simon G. Talbot and Wendy Dean July 26, 2018. STAT News
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Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ They’re suffering from moral injury. By Simon G. Talbot and Wendy Dean July 26, 2018. STAT News
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This month we welcome back Ed Weisbart MD, our old friend from St Louis whom we interviewed last in September, 2021. It is open enrollment now for Medicare (DIS)Advantage and he shares important information about the problems of Medicare Advantage as opposed to Traditional Medicare.
More information about Medicare Advantage can be found at Protect Medicare.
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This month is part 2 of our interview with Dr AJ Sinha, Nephrologist at IU School of Medicine and the Indianapolis VA Hospital. In this episode we discuss changes to Medicaid, the need to move to Medicare for All, and the importance of physicians and other health workers to organize in order to have the power to make change.
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This month we interview Dr. AJ Sinha, a nephrologist at the Indianapolis VA hospital, faculty at IU School of Medicine, leader of Medicare for All Indiana – Indianapolis, and member of Circle City Mutual Aid, Insulin for All Indiana, and the Good Trouble Coalition.
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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:20 PM. This month we interview Dr. Rob Stone for an update and synthesis of all the complex and maddening developments in healthcare …
Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:20 PM. This month we interview Michelle Higgs, an activist with Hoosier Action and the national group People’s Action and their Care over …
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This month we have part 2 of our interview with Richard Master, prominent businessman and producer of the new movie American Hospitals, Healing a Broken System. Medicare for All Indiana screened the Indiana premier of the movie in Bloomington in April. Rep. Matt Pierce attended and addressed the parallels between this movie and Indiana hospitals. You can hear our interview with Rep. Pierce in the February and March shows that can be scrolled to below.
This month Richard Master is discussing his role in founding Business Leaders for Healthcare Transformation. We will discuss how the business community is the “sleeping giant” that when awakened has the potential to lead the way to universal healthcare.
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This month we interview Richard Master, prominent businessman and producer of the new movie American Hospitals, Healing a Broken System. Medicare for All Indiana screened the Indiana premier of the movie in Bloomington in April. Rep. Matt Pierce attended and addressed the parallels between this movie and Indiana hospitals. You can hear our interview with him in the February and March shows visible below.
In June we will air Part 2 of our conversation with Richard Master, discussing his role in founding Business Leaders for Healthcare Transformation. We will discuss how the business community is the “sleeping giant” that when awakened has the potential to lead the way to universal healthcare.
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This month Karen Green Stone interviews her co-host Dr. Rob Stone to bring us up to date on changes in Medicaid in Indiana, the threat to Medicare from privatization posed by Medicare Advantage plans, and the Indiana premier of the new movie American Hospitals. Healing a Broken System,to be shown at St Mark’s United Methodist Church at 100 SR-46 W, Bloomington, at 7 pm on Monday April 24th.
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This month is part 2 of our interview with Rep. Matt Pierce D-Bloomington explaining what our state legislature is considering in terms of regulating hospitals and decreasing healthcare costs for Hoosiers.
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This month we interview Rep. Matt Pierce representing District 61 Bloomington in the Indiana legislature where he has served since 2002. We talk about health legislation being considered this session that could change the way hospitals set their prices. We will continue the conversation in Part 2 aired next month.
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This month we welcome back Wendell Potter, former health insurance company executive turned whistle blower, and author of Deadly Spin, An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Healthcare and Deceiving Americans. We discuss the soon-to-be-released documentary American Hospitals – Healing a Broken System, which reveals the economic structure of an industry that is charging outrageous fees while sitting on billions of dollars in accumulated cash.
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This month we interview Tracey Hutchings-Goetz, Communications Director for Hoosier Action, the grassroots activist organization. Hoosier Action is working to draw attention to the risk for Hoosiers on Medicaid, including the Healthy Indiana Plan, HIP, as the Federal Government looks to end the Covid Public Health Emergency.
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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasted live the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:20 PM. This month we interview Dr Betty Keller in Vermont about her exciting work with a summer internship program inspiring medical …
Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasted live the second Thursday of every month. This month we interview Paul Kaczocha, a long time Steel Worker and NorthWest Indiana activist. Paul is the chair of Northwest Indiana Medicare for All and past President of the …
Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasted the second Thursday of every month. In the September show hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone speak with Dr Ana Malinow, a pediatrician from San Francisco and activist in the fight to protect Medicare …
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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. In the June show, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone speak with Dr. Earle Robinson, Jr. and Rebecca Robinson who tell us about making the documentary The Color of Medicine, the Story of Homer G …
Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. In the June show, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone speak with Dr. Earl Robinson, Jr. and Rebecca Robinson who tell us about making the documentary The Color of Medicine, the Story of Homer G …
Welcome to this month’s edition of Prescription for Healthcare – a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. In the February edition of the show, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone speak with award-winning journalist Suzanne Gordon about how the healthcare system when it comes to the United …
Welcome to the October edition of Prescription for Healthcare on WFHB Community Radio in collaboration with Medicare for All Indiana. Today, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone continue their conversation with Dr. Ed Weisbart, a retired family physician from St. Louis and chair of the Missouri chapter of Physicians for a National Health …
Welcome to the August edition of Prescription for Healthcare – a monthly segment dedicated to increasing the understanding of healthcare issues for the WFHB listening community through interviews with and commentary from medical and community experts. Our guest today is Erin Bammann, a fourth-year at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Bammann was the …
Welcome to the July edition of Prescription for Healthcare – a once-a-month podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. In today’s segment, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone continue their conversation with Dr. Mark Bauman – a former physician at Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital and professor at …
Welcome to the June edition of Prescription for Healthcare – a once-a-month podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. In today’s segment, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone speak with Dr. Mark Bauman – a former physician at Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital and professor at IU School …
It’s the second Thursday in February, so that means it’s time for our podcast, Prescription for Healthcare, a deep-dive into healthcare issues hosted by Rob Stone and Karen Green Stone. Today’s program is Part II. of their interview with T.R. Reid – a long-time correspondent for the Washington Post, author of many best-selling books, chairman …
Welcome to the latest edition of our podcast, Prescription for Healthcare, produced by Dr. Rob Stone and Karen Green Stone. Our guest today is T.R. Reid – a longtime correspondent for the Washington Post, a best-selling author, chairman of the Colorado Foundation for Universal Healthcare and chairman on the board of the Colorado Coalition for …