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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: Locked Up and Lost: Healthcare in the Prison System

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

While the United States is home to some of the world's most advanced medical technology, it's no secret that it has a terrible healthcare system -- millions of people are one bad diagnosis away from bankruptcy or death if they cannot pay the insurance companies controlling their access to life-saving treatments, medicines and therapy. Yet the US also has the world's highest incarceration rate, with over 700 people out of every 100,000 currently serving time -- what happens when they get sick? Tune in to learn the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know about healthcare in prison.

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0:00.0

Fellow Conspiracy Realist, we returned to you this evening with a classic episode about a terrible, terrible conspiracy that continues today in 2024 and continued far before we first spoke

0:17.9

about this in 2019.

0:20.0

Oh yeah and we've learned so much more about the prison system and health care

0:26.5

you know as two separate things since that time I'm specifically thinking back to

0:31.1

the discussion you guys had with the Lava for Good folks, like all the different hosts there, and just learning about the dangers of the prison system.

0:40.0

But the weirdest thing, the weirdest thing for me was learning from them through you guys that private prisons are actually way smaller of a deal than I thought because there's so fewer of them.

0:54.0

But yet they're the ones that get all the headlines, right?

0:57.0

Yeah, well, that's the headlines and that's at least my perception.

1:01.0

And the reason why that was mind-blowing to me is because I imagined

1:04.3

there was pretty good health care for prisoners because there's a profit

1:09.1

motive to keep that prisoner alive and in jail because the private prison gets money per person per bed, right?

1:17.5

But that's not the way it goes in most prisons.

1:22.4

Accurate.

1:23.0

Let's check out the episode.

1:25.0

Hey, I'm Jiano Predente.

1:27.0

And I'm Jimmy Jackson Gadsden.

1:29.0

We're the host of Let's Talk offline,

1:30.0

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1:34.0

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1:40.0

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1:45.0

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1:47.0

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