The future of health care (with Abdul El-Sayed)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Biden-Sanders unity task force appointee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed walks Nick and Goldy through the Biden transition team’s health care plan. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist. He is the Chair of Southpaw Michigan and a contributor at CNN. He is the author of ‘Healing Politics’ and the co-author of the upcoming ‘Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide’. He also hosts “America Dissected,” a podcast by Crooked Media. Twitter: @AbdulElSayed Show us some love by leaving a rating or a review! RateThisPodcast.com/pitchforkeconomics Further reading: Coronavirus is exploiting an underlying condition: our epidemic of insecurity: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/19/coronavirus-insecurity-anxiety-us-epidemic Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations: https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf Healing Politics: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781419743023 Health insurance and the COVID-19 shock: https://www.epi.org/publication/health-insurance-and-the-covid-19-shock/ Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:29.2	podcasts.
0:30.2	We absolutely have to find a way in this country to totally transform our health care system into something that works for all citizens.
0:40.0	And in a post-Covid world where anybody with COVID anybody is potentially denied a claim based on a pre-existing condition.
0:49.6	There is just a huge political fight ahead of us. I mean these may be the most important 40 days for the future of our democracy in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics with Nick Hanauer.
1:09.0	It's like Econ 101 without all the B.S.
1:18.8	I'm Nick Henauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
1:21.8	I'm David Goldstein, Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures.
1:29.7	Since the onset of the COVID-19 shock to the economy roughly 6.2 million workers have lost access to health insurance that they previously got through their employer.
1:39.0	According to the best measure of net employment change, which is just it's just staggering right yeah and it's
1:45.6	nuts it's crazy it's just not it's not a way to run an economy it's not a way to run a health care system
1:51.1	it dwarfs the loss coverage that we experienced during the biggest
1:55.3	job losing period of the Great Recession. And we absolutely have to find a way in this country to
2:01.4	totally transform our health care system into something that works for all
2:06.9	citizens and in the context of the broader economy and at all times.
2:11.8	And the pandemic has proved, I think, beyond a shadow of a doubt, how idiotic an employer-based
2:16.4	health care system is, right?
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