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US Health Care System
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Feb 12th, 2025
Episodes about the unusual health care system in place in the United States
Episodes
Episode | Description | Categories | Contacts | Reach | Guests | Hosts | Date Aired | Length | Curator's Notes | ||||
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-- | December 2, 2019 | 25:49s | This episode focuses on one woman who was skipping meals and selling off her possessions to try to keep up with medical bills from her daughter's surgery. Her hospital is suing her for "refusing" to pay her bills. Her story is astoundingly comm | ||||||||||
-- | -- | -- | August 9, 2019 | 23:29s | This episode gives tips to Americans who have been stuck with high hospital bills. While a for-profit insurance company receives deep discounts from the hospital for medical procedures, a patient without insurance can receive a bill four times | ||||||||
-- | -- | June 5, 2019 | 27:17s | A drug with a very high success rate at preventing the transmission of HIV has been invented... but most Americans with HIV aren't able to use it, because drug companies have been allowed to patent and profit from it. | |||||||||
-- | -- | March 13, 2019 | 46:54s | This episode focuses on emergency rooms specifically, and talks about the inflated rates: hundreds of dollars for something as simple as a Band-Aid applied to a cut finger. Many patients are brought to the emergency room while unconscious and a | |||||||||
-- | July 8, 2019 | 48:59s | This episode explains why patients in the U.S. healthcare system often become addicted to opioids. Non-addictive pain medications and treatments do exist, but patients are denied them because opioids are so much cheaper. | ||||||||||
-- | September 14, 2019 | 39:13s | This episode explores the health care disparity between black and white Americans, which has been in place from the instant slavery was abolished. It also takes the listener through the first attempt to make a nationalized health care system, a | ||||||||||
-- | March 31, 2020 | 23:51s | The lack of ventilators and the shortage of hospital beds are both killing us during this COVID-19 pandemic. This episode explains that the reason we lack them is simple: the profit motive. Hospitals and manufacturers of vital equipment are bus | ||||||||||
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