(2014/02/08) Trouble at the old pharm (Health Care)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 February 2014
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Edition #797
Trouble at the old pharm
Today we take a look at the seedy underbelly of the industry that creates all of those wonderful, life-saving drugs that sit at the crossroads of western medicine and western capitalism.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare - EscapeFireMovie - Air Date: 07-12-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Mother of the night - Moby
Ch. 4: Act 2: Who are the REAL Obamacare Hypocrites? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 01-07-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Margaret on the Guillotine - Morrissey
Ch. 6: Act 3: This Is Why Healthcare Costs So Much - @majorityfm - Air Date: 12-11-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Snake oil - Entrain
Ch. 8: Act 4: Major Pharm Company To End Payments To Doctors - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 12-21-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: First patient - Philip Glass
Ch. 10: Act 5: Map Shows Damage Caused by Anti-Vaccine Movement - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 01-29-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Bad idea - Goose
Ch. 12: Act 6: Stand Up For Mental Health - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 14: Act 7: Big Pharma CEO: Our Medicine is for Rich People, Not Inians - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-29-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Two points for honesty - Guster
Ch. 16: Act 8: New Once-A-Month Vitamin Presents Choking Hazard - @TheOnion
Ch. 17: Song 8: Choke - The Black Cadillacs
Ch. 18: Act 9: Hepatitis C Cure Discovered - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 01-06-14
Ch. 19: Introduction to today's voicemail on reproductive rights
Voicemails:
Ch. 20: Personhood is not the central principle in abortion debate - Mara from Pittsburgh
Ch. 21: Science as the deciding factor - Dirk from Madison, WI
Ch. 22: Rebuttal to bodily autonomy - Anonymous
Ch. 23: Comparing the ideas of obligation vs bodily autonomy - Mara from Pittsburgh
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 24: Final comments on why bodily autonomy is the primary consideration and personhood is secondary
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
Stand Up For Mental Health Campaign
Additional Activism/Resources:
Affordable Care Act
National Alliance of Mental Illness
h/t Feminista Jones
Sources/further reading:
"When ‘Positivity' Goes Wrong: Please Stop Shaming People For Being Sad”
by Pia Glen
"USDA Announces Support for Mental Health Facilities in Rural Areas"
Doctors For America
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.2 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cubsiday from the Escape Fire |
| 0:12.7 | Movie, the Tom Hartman program, the Majority Report, the Young Turks, the Onion Radio |
| 0:16.9 | News, the David Pakman show, and BestOfTheLeft activism. |
| 0:20.3 | Now be sure to consult your doctor before listening to this episode's side effects include |
| 0:23.8 | a terribly long list of things to embarrassing you didn't mention. |
| 0:30.0 | All I hear is how we're going to give more people access to the present system and how |
| 0:37.2 | we're going to pay for it. |
| 0:38.5 | But the present system doesn't work and it's going to take us down. |
| 0:42.2 | We need a whole new kind of medicine. |
| 0:49.7 | We don't have a healthcare system in this country. |
| 0:51.7 | We have a disease management system. |
| 0:56.8 | Many people have a hard time believing that these simple choices that we make on our lives |
| 1:00.0 | each day can make such a powerful difference. |
| 1:02.4 | The American healthcare system, it's generating rivers of money that are flowing into very |
| 1:06.8 | few pockets. |
| 1:09.5 | In the health insurance industry at the executive level, what's most important is eating |
| 1:13.3 | Wall Street's expectations, and they have to, these corporate companies by law have to |
| 1:18.0 | serve shareholders. |
| 1:19.6 | You almost forget what you're doing is providing healthcare. |
| 1:23.4 | The healthcare system is unsustainable and we're really mortgaging the future. |
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