Medicare For All Explained

A Prologue to the Future

This is episode 108, “A Prologue to the Future.” 

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why the University of Delaware freezing hiring, pausing projects and curbing travel is a prologue to the future in the United States if we keep the current healthcare system.

These are the two articles referenced in this podcast:

Hiring frozen. Projects paused. Travel curbed. UD reacts to spiking state health care cost

Why companies are leaving the cloud

 

A Traditional Medicare Benefit

This is episode 107, “A Traditional Medicare Benefit.” 

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why Medicare makes it easier to move to a different state.

 

Medicare for All Audio Bullet Points

This is episode 106, “Medicare for All Audio Bullet Points.” 

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks uses audio bullet points to explain why we need Medicare for All.

People’s Action and Healthcare for All

This is episode 105, “People’s Action and Healthcare for All.” My guest Aija Nemer-Aanerud is the Healthcare for All Campaign Director at People's Action. 

Do not miss this episode as Aija describes People’s Action’s goals, how Healthcare for All fits into their overall purpose, and also describes what People’s Action is currently emphasizing in healthcare. 

If you would like to learn more or volunteer for the Care Over Cost campaign here is the link: https://careovercost.org/.

If you would like to learn more about People’s Action, here is the link: https://peoplesaction.org/.

 

The U.S. Has the Worst Healthcare System Among Wealthy Nations

This is episode 104, "The U.S. Has the Worst Healthcare System Among Wealthy Nations."

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks discusses some of the reports that show the U.S. has the worst healthcare system among wealthy nations.

 

Why Medicare for All Is Better Than Direct Contracting.

This is episode 103, “Why Medicare for All Is Better Than Direct Contracting.” 

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why Medicare for All is better than direct contracting.

Why Medicare for All Will Provide More Freedom

This is episode 102, “Why Medicare for All Will Provide More Freedom.” 

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why Medicare for All provides more freedom than private health insurance plans.

 

Drowning, Guns, Healthcare and What People Say

This is episode 101, “Drowning, Guns, Healthcare and What People Say.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why the response to drownings, gun violence, and healthcare is to let people die and why we need to change that.

Here is the article that I referenced from the New York Times: "Drowning Is No. 1 Killer of Young Children. U.S. Efforts to Fix It Are Lagging."

Here are two other reference articles on drownings: 

• "Drowning Facts"
• "Drowning: The Fast and Silent Killer"
  
  

Here is the study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions for my statistics on gun violence: "U.S. Gun Violence in 2021: An Accounting of a Public Health Crisis"

Bubble-Up Economics

This is episode 100, “Bubble-Up Economics.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks expands the discussion beyond Medicare for All and discusses why we need to take a “bubble-up” approach to the economy.

In this podcast, I quote CBS News. However, in the podcast I do not say explicitly that I am quoting CBS. Here is the quote, “If the minimum wage had risen along with workers' productivity since the 1970s, it would currently be set at nearly $23 an hour, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research.”

 

Clarifying a Few Points

This is episode 99, “Clarifying a Few Points.”

Do not miss this episode as host Joe Sparks explains why the free-market will always result in a market failure for healthcare and why the free-market will never provide a viable solution for healthcare.