New from Code WACK,Public health advocacy: Leveraging the immigrant experience.
This time on Code WACK! Public health advocacy requires considerable insight into the major issues that affect communities. How best to gain this insight? What role does direct personal experience pl...
15 Okt 202413min
New from Code WACK,'Incestuous exploitation?' PBMs & corporate healthcare consolidation
This time on Code WACK! Rebate aggregators? Group purchasing? Vertical integration? How exactly do Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, operate to maximize profit? And how are everyday Americans suffe...
7 Okt 202416min
New from Code WACK, 'Incestuous exploitation?' PBMs and corporate healthcare consolidation
We’re taking another look at Pharmacy Benefit Managers or PBMs. Why were PBMs started and how did they morph to become one of the most powerful entities in health care? Why have they caught the attent...
1 Okt 202415min
New from Code WACK,Jacked up premiums & chaos? Why your health care is on the line this November.
What’s at stake in health care with the upcoming federal election? Would Donald Trump really try to repeal the Affordable Care Act - again? Would Kamala Harris continue fighting to rein in the skyrock...
23 Sep 202417min
New from Code WACK, Patient-centered health care? The fight to change our disempowering system
The fight for affordable, accessible health care in the U.S. has gone on for decades. Who’s in the fight to win solutions that improve health care for everyone? What policies are they working on? To...
17 Sep 202414min
New from Code WACK, What’s being done to stop pharmaceutical pirates?
This time on Code WACK! What are lawmakers and the Federal Trade Commission doing about Pharmacy Benefit Managers and their undue influence over drug prices and access? Who is watching out for consum...
9 Sep 202413min
New from Code WACK,How pharmaceutical profiteers are screwing us over.
This time on Code WACK! So you might have heard the term pharmacy benefit managers – or PBMs – in the news. But what are they? How did these middlemen get to be so powerful? How are they causing drug...
3 Sep 202412min
New from Code WACK,Privatization ‘on steroids?’ What health care could look like under Trump
This time on Code WACK! As the United States faces an election possibly unlike any other in our history, we wonder about the future of our healthcare system. What changes might we expect under Presi...
28 Aug 202417min
