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UCLA Law Professor Joanna Schwartz Discusses Her Just-Published, "Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable"
According to the non-profit Mapping Police Violence, since 2013 when experts first starting tracking police shootings, last year was the deadliest ye…
2 years, 7 months ago
Columbia University's Ms. Cynthia Hanawalt Discusses Public Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
US healthcare emits a massive amount of carbon pollution at approximately 600 million tons annually or roughly 9% of total US greenhouse gasses. Bec…
2 years, 7 months ago
Dr. Robert Moffit Discusses "Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Market Competition"
US healthcare spending is extreme currently at approximately $4.3 trillion. The single largest payer of healthcare services is Medicare at roughly $…
2 years, 7 months ago
Prof. Nancy Tomes Discusses Patients as Consumers and to What Extent Defining Medicine as a Commodity Has Proven Useful
Over the past several decades healthcare has increasingly defined patients as medical consumers. For example, healthcare advertising is today a $22 …
2 years, 8 months ago
Professors Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind Discuss They're Recently Published Book, "Scarcity: A History From the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis"
Professors Albritton Jonsson and Wennerlind’s recently published book, “Scarcity” by Harvard University Press, offers interpretations of a key concep…
2 years, 9 months ago
Dr. Richard Young Discusses His Dystopian Healthcare Novel, "2060" (August 1st)
Dr. Young’s novel, “2060” tells the story of Willis Smith, a data analyst employed by IntegraHealth Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Smith is assigned to identi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sonia Roschnik Discusses the International Hospital Federation's Environmental Sustainability Programming
On background, listeners are aware that the US healthcare industry emits an enormous amount of GHG pollution, that hospitals are the largest contrib…
2 years, 10 months ago
Professor Larry Churchill Discusses "Bioethics Reenvisioned, A Path Toward Health Justice"
Professor Larry R. Churchill, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Vanderbilt, discusses “Biotethics Reenvisioned,” a just-published book he co-au…
2 years, 11 months ago
285th Podcast: Wendell Potter Discusses the Recently Released Documentary, "American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System" (May 26th)
As this hour-long documentary explains US hospital care, and healthcare in sum, is largely volume-driven that over-emphasizes expensive specialty ver…
3 years ago
CBPP's Ms. Katie Bergh Discusses SNAP Policy (May 22nd)
More than likely the most important legislation the Congress will pass this year or this session is the multi-year fam bill that is projected to cost…
3 years ago