Best Of 2023: Lifetime Care w/ William Bronston

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 28th, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Bea and Phil speak with lifelong activist William Bronston about his experiences trying to take down the infamous Willowbrook institution from within as a young Doctor, his appeal to replace “long term care” with “lifetime care," and how his work towards deinstitutionalization informs his ongoing advocacy for single payer healthcare. Full transcript here: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/lifetime-care-dr-william-bronston Find Bronston's book "Public Hostage, Public Ransom" here: https://www.publichostagepublicransom.org/ And find the state single payer plan he coauthored here: https://caltcha.org/model Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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1:41.0	So I'm here today with my co-host, Phil Roco. Hey. And the two of us aren't joined by a
1:47.0	great guest. And we're going to be talking about single payer and how expansively and radically
1:53.5	we should be thinking about the redistributive potential of ending health insurance as we know
2:00.0	and hate it. Dr. William Brunston is a physician
2:03.7	organizer who has spent a lifetime fighting for single payer and deinstitutionalization. He is the
2:09.5	author of the book Public Hostage, Public Ransom, Ending Institutional America, and is probably
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