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This podcast explains why we need Medicare for All
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Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
This is episode 128, “How Medicare for All Could Change Your Life.”
Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains how Medicare for All could change your life.
Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL337TuRDOI
Monday Sep 15, 2025
Monday Sep 15, 2025
This is episode 127, “Where to Get Reliable Medical Information.”
Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks list some websites to get reliable health information now that the CDC is unreliable.
Below are the websites mentioned in this podcast.
Brown University’s School of Public Health Pandemic Center
The Cleveland Clinic’s Health Library
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)
Friday Aug 15, 2025
Friday Aug 15, 2025
This is episode 126, “Medicare Stealth Cuts.”
Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks describes how Donald Trump and the GOP are making Stealth Cuts to Medicare even though Trump said he would not cut Medicare.
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
This is episode 125, “A Horrible Distraction.”
Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks describes how the Big Beautiful Bill will cause millions to lose healthcare and distract us from solving the healthcare crisis in the United States.
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
This is episode 124, “Bad Healthcare News.”
Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks describes how proposed Medicaid cuts in the misnamed Big Beautiful Bill will cause millions to lose health care.
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
This is episode 123, “Millions More Without Care.”
Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains that the arguments over Medicaid cuts ignores people who are uninsured and underinsured.
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
This is episode 122, "Bearing the Cost of Irresponsible Healthcare Decisions."
Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains that Medicare for All would reduce bad healthcare decisions by ending the denial of care by health insurance companies.
Saturday Mar 15, 2025
Saturday Mar 15, 2025
This is episode 121, “Free Market Healthcare Doesn’t Work.”
In this episode, Ali Velshi, a capitalist, explains why a free market healthcare system will never work. Velshi is from Canada and was a journalist on CNBC and before moving to MSNBC. Velshi’s explanation is from “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.”
Do not miss this episode as Ali Velshi explains why free market healthcare won’t work and why there is no country that has a free market healthcare system.
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
This is episode 120, “Speaking to the Needs of the People.”
In this episode, I play an excerpt from an interview with Blake Zeff. He helped in both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and is an expert in policy and strategic communications.
In the interview, Zeff explains that issues of health care helped the Democrats win the 2020 election, and then the Democrats rarely talked about health care and did almost nothing to address the problems with our healthcare system once elected.
Do not miss this episode as Blake Zeff discusses Democrats' failure to address health care.
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
This is episode 119, “Ending Medical Debt.”
Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why removing medical debt from credit reports is not an effective way to deal with medical debt and how we can end medical debt.