Hello, Artie here, and welcome to something new we're trying out, which is our roundup of some of our favorite episodes from the last year, 2023.

So over the holidays, and as this year comes to a close, we're releasing a Best of 2023 series.

This is by no means objective and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out,

but also featuring some newly unlocked patron episodes that people have been asking for

for a while. So we'll be releasing one every weekday, and we'll be back with the first

episode of the new year on January 8th. In the meantime, we want to say thank you to all of our patrons.

It means a lot to us that we're entirely independent. We don't do ads or sponsored content and are entirely listener supported,

so your support goes directly to helping us make deeply researched episodes just like the

ones you'll hear this week. And if you're listening to this and you're not a patron,

you can support us at patreon.com slash death panel pod. As always, stay alive another week

and see you all in the death panel. Welcome to the Death Panel.

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about your favorite episodes, pick up a copy of Health Communism at your local bookstore,

or request it at your local library and follow us at death panel underscore. So today we've got quite the

COVID episode for you. I'm here with my co-hosts, Artie Virkant, hello, Abby Cardis,

hello, and Phil Rocco. Hi, I am. And right now we're at the top of August, almost two months out from the end of the

federal public health emergency in the United States and three months out from the so-called

unwinding of Medicaid in which the Biden administration is, again, presiding over the single

largest concentrated loss of health care coverage in U.S. history,

so far, 3.8 million Medicaid enrollees have been disenrolled as of August 3rd, 2023.

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