How to Combat Project 2025’s Dangerous Prescription for Public Health

Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams

Crooked Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Stacey speaks to Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist and editor at large for public health at KFF Health News, about the threats to public health with the incoming Trump Administration. They talk through Trump’s appointees for the nation’s top health and science agencies like RFK Jr., how to bring scientific thinking back to policy making, and how to differentiate between public health and individual healthcare. Then Stacey explains how to make change by “power-mapping” an issue, finding out who is responsible for the problem, who has jurisdiction over it, and who is already thinking and talking about solutions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams from Crooked Media.
0:12.5	I'm your host, Stacey Abrams.
0:15.2	Since the election, we've been unpacking how the incoming administration and Project 2025 will actually work.
0:23.7	What's possible and how can we respond?
0:27.3	As a reminder, Project 2025 is the 900-page-long policy blueprint published by the conservative
0:34.2	think tank, the Heritage Foundation.
0:36.5	With a complicit Congress and a
0:39.3	compromised Supreme Court, their to-do list could undermine everything we rely on for a just
0:45.7	society, from civil rights protections and environmental defenses to public education, free speech,
0:53.0	and today's topic, health care.
0:55.4	When we think about human rights, when we think about the core of what makes us who we are,
1:01.9	there is nothing more relevant and more fundamental than health care.
1:07.0	The ability to participate in society begins with good health.
1:12.1	I grew up in a family without health insurance.
1:14.9	I grew up knowing that if I got hurt, if it wasn't major, it was going to be treated as minor,
1:20.5	not because my parents didn't care, but because they simply didn't have the resources
1:24.7	to get access to health care.
1:29.5	And in fact, since I grew up and got access to health care, since my parents finally have health insurance, I can see a night
1:35.0	and day difference in the way our lives are lived. And I also feel an incredible degree of
1:40.8	privilege because I know what it means to not have health care and to have
1:45.1	it now.
1:46.4	I am also deeply annoyed and sometimes outraged because the fight over health care is a fight
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