Big Pharma. A miracle HIV prevention drug (and its price-tag). Blue States vs. RFK.

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Abdul and Katelyn talk about a promising bipartisan bill that could disrupt Pharmacy Benefit Managers, a miracle drug that prevents HIV--at a serious cost, and new data that show that US obesity rates may have fallen for the first time in more than a decade. Then they talk about RFK Jr’s chances of being confirmed to lead HHS after news broke last week that his attorney asked the FDA to repeal approval of the polio vaccine back in 2022. Then Abdul sits down with Dr. Umair Shah, Washington State’s Secretary of Health, about the role of state health departments over the next four years. We will be back with more episodes in 2025. We wish you all a restful holiday season! This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: Marguerite Casey Foundation: Sign up now to get your free Boston Review issue delivered to your door at CaseyGrants.org/State. Calm: Calm is offering an exclusive offer of 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription at calm.com/DISSECT. Lumen: If you want to stay on track with your health this holiday season, head to http://lumen.me/AD for 15% off your purchase. Reclaimed: This podcast takes you back to the very beginning when the Navajo reservation was first created. And it reveals the history of oppression and exclusion that led the Navajo to this point — and why their future is still uncertain. You can listen to “Reclaimed” wherever you get podcasts.

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0:00.0	America Dissected is brought to you by Marguerite Casey Foundation.
0:03.0	Marguerite Kaysi Foundation is proud to partner with Haymarket Books to bring you a very
0:06.5	special edition of Boston Review Magazine exploring what it will take to get to this state to serve
0:10.9	social justice.
0:12.1	Leading the forum for this issue, Marguerite Kacey Foundation freedom scholar Olofemi-Taiwo
0:15.8	offers an illuminating exploration of how fossil capital has captured the state and what can be done about it, with responses and analysis by Theo Reilly of Freeneos, Mariamicaba, Andrea Richie, Ishae Diwan,
0:26.5	Bright Simons, and many others. This is an issue you don't want to miss.
0:29.8	Sign up now to get your old free Boston Review issue delivered to your door at kcgrants.org slash state that's C-A-S-E-Y, G-R-A-N-T-S.org slash state.
0:49.1	Drugs, pharma, and medications, and, of course, some RFK watch. I'm dr abdul elsaian and i'm dr kately
0:56.4	jettelina and this is america dissecting dr jettelina how are you today hanging in there
1:07.7	got a little sick one yeah i'm, which takes us like right into the
1:13.8	first topic here. First of all, how is she holding up? How are you holding up?
1:21.0	Yeah, I do think it's worse for parents, honestly, and especially parents that now we can work
1:26.9	from home. So we're supposed to be taking
1:28.9	care of a sick kid and working from home at the same time. But it's, it's, we're hanging in there.
1:33.5	She has flu A. And we're obviously at the beginning of respiratory season. So I know she's not
1:40.1	alone. Yeah. I'm really sorry to hear it. And it really sucks. And it's like it's particularly
1:46.2	bad not to your point about being at home. It's particularly bad because like having to see your
1:52.8	kid suffer with an illness is is awful on its own terms. And then the loss of sleep and the
2:00.1	lack of wanting to eat.
2:02.6	And then the clinginess where they just can't get off of you.
2:05.6	Clinginess.
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