SUPD Presents "Can You Talk Real Quick" with Politico Health Care Reporter Megan Messerly
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to my new Series "Can you talk real quick?" This is a short, efficiently produced conversation with someone who knows stuff about things that are happening and who will let me record a quick chat to help us all better understand an issue in the news or our lives as well as connect with each other around something that might be unfolding in real time.
As many as 15 million people nationwide are expected to lose coverage as states check eligibility for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
Thousands lose Medicaid in Arkansas: Is this America’s future?
More than 140,000 Arkansans have lost Medicaid in two months, most of them for procedural reasons.
Poltico reporter Megan Messerly who covers health care in the states drove hundreds of miles around Arkansas to find out why so many of them are falling through the cracks.
I gave her a call and pressed record.
Megan is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, covering health policy in the states.
Before joining POLITICO, Megan covered politics and health policy for The Nevada Independent. Megan got her start in journalism covering politics as an intern at the San Francisco Chronicle and a reporter at the Las Vegas Sun.
Megan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a double major in English and Media Studies and was editor of the school’s independent student newspaper, The Daily Californian.
Like many other journalists, Megan traces her beginnings in journalism back to high school, where she was editor of her high school's magazine and yearbook.
Megan was born and raised in Orange County, Calif. In her spare time, she enjoys painting, yoga and walks with her dog, Moby.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to another edition of Kenya Talk real quick. |
| 0:05.9 | This is where I call one expert who is covering an issue relevant to the times we're in |
| 0:11.8 | or to your life particularly and this one is just that it's everybody. |
| 0:17.0 | It's healthcare in the United States of America. |
| 0:20.3 | More specifically health insurance access and coverage. |
| 0:23.2 | An issue I've been covering with health policy, experts, economists, journalists, professors, |
| 0:28.8 | physicians, people working in the healthcare field for over, I guess it's 15 years since |
| 0:33.5 | President Obama was left in 2008. |
| 0:35.2 | We started talking about it on the campaign and then obviously in 2010 with the Affordable |
| 0:39.8 | Care Act. |
| 0:40.8 | So today I reached out to healthcare reporter Megan Messerley who works at Politico, say |
| 0:46.1 | whatever you want about any corporate media company. |
| 0:49.2 | If they resource a reporter like Megan is good as Megan to cover poverty, people living |
| 0:56.4 | in poverty in this case to cover folks who are getting kicked off of Medicaid, I give |
| 1:00.8 | them credit for that because Megan's reporting is super important and really good and thorough |
| 1:06.2 | on an issue whose impact is so serious, so vital that it should matter to every American |
| 1:11.5 | because as many as 15 million people, including five million children are expected to lose |
| 1:16.6 | Medicaid in the coming months and what will be the largest shifts in the nation's healthcare |
| 1:21.6 | landscape since the passage of the Affordable Care Act. |
| 1:24.7 | And right while all states are removing people from their Medicaid roles, several Republican |
| 1:29.0 | led states appear to moving at a breakneck speed and no state is moving as quickly as Arkansas |
| 1:34.8 | or governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has embraced her predecessor's plan to complete the work |
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