New from Code WACK,Can we stem the tide of healthcare inflation?
This 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 stat...
16 Tammi 202415min
New from Code WACK,A new sheriff in town? How one state is fighting high healthcare costs
The New Year is ringing in higher health care premiums while U.S. life expectancy continues to fall. Despite spending more on health care than any other country, we don’t seem to be getting much bang ...
9 Tammi 202416min
New from Code WACK, Why millions of Americans seek health care abroad, despite the risks.
In honor of more than 200 podcast episodes and the New Year, we’re running one of our oldies but goodies about the medical tourism phenomenon - Need surgery but your $7,000 deductible is in the way?...
3 Tammi 202417min
New From Code WACK, 'Absolutely bonkers': The hassles doctors face in treating patients.
Patients aren’t the only people who are frustrated with our current healthcare system. So are doctors! Why? And why doesn’t free market capitalism work with health care? To find out, we spoke to awa...
26 Joulu 202317min
New from Code WACK, Healing US: Uniting across the political spectrum.
How did the new documentary Healing US, about the drawbacks of America’s for-profit healthcare system, get made? Which harrowing stories did they highlight? When Americans need health care, why do so ...
19 Joulu 202315min
New from Code WACK, Changing the game for Black expectant parents.
How can we, as a society, better support Black expectant parents and their babies in light of how vulnerable they are to dying in America? And what root causes must be addressed to do this most effect...
12 Joulu 202316min
New from Code WACK, Abundance, joy & dignity. Healing the Black birth experience.
Why are Black people so vulnerable to maternal and infant mortality - and what’s being done about it? What will the closing of a maternity ward in South Los Angeles County – a trend happening around ...
4 Joulu 202313min
New from Code WACK,Money, money, money! The politics of funding single payer
New from Code WACK,Money, money, money! The politics of funding single payer by Nurse Talk
28 Marras 202315min
