Code WACK!
Code WACK! shines a light on our callous healthcare system and what we can do about it. It reveals the healthcare hassles that - far from being just annoying - threaten our peace of mind, our financial security and at times, our very lives. Join us each week as we chat about the challenges that patients and healthcare providers face, amplifying their voices and examining a range of possible solutions, including Medicare for All. Powered by HEAL California, a project of the California OneCare Education Fund, Code WACK! informs the vital discussion of healthcare reform.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 292
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Confronting COVID - Hotspots, Telemedicine and Medicare for All
How can we maximize our ability to confront pandemics like the coronavirus? Which strategies are working for us, and which are failing? With host Brenda Gazzar, Dr. Philip Verhoef, Clinical Professor…
Racism, Health Care & Coronavirus in America
Why does the U.S. lack a universal, Medicare-for-All-type healthcare system like many other developed countries have? What are the consequences? In this fifth and final episode of a podcast series wi…
COVID-19: Crisis & Opportunity
How does the lack of universal sick leave and health care affect America's ability to respond to pandemics? In this fourth in a series with host Brenda Gazzar, Dr. Tony Iton, Senior Vice President f…
Coronavirus: America’s Self-Created Vulnerability & How Medicare for All Could Help
Learn which of us are most vulnerable during this pandemic, and why. In this third of a podcast series with host Brenda Gazzar, Dr. Tony Iton, senior vice president for Healthy Communities at The Cal…
Pandemic: Preparing for a new normal
Learn how deforestation and climate change are increasing the likelihood of future pandemics and what America can do to prepare for them. In this second of a podcast series with host Brenda Gazzar, D…
Coronavirus: America's Public Health Fail
Find out how the erosion of America’s public health system undermined our response to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. In this first of a podcast series, Dr. Tony Iton, senior vice president for Heal…
Our Children At Risk: Is Medicare-for-All the Answer?
What's more precious than our children? Yet a growing number of children are losing insurance and as a result, access to health care. How does this impact them?
Join host Brenda Gazzar as Dr. Ana Mal…
A Shocking Sacrifice: One Mom's Fight to Change Health Care in America
How do parents balance their own needs and their children's in America's high-stakes healthcare system? Learn how one devoted mother was forced to make a choice with traumatic consequences.
Rebecca W…
Denied: Behind America's Deadly Healthcare System
Learn how America’s corporate healthcare system delays and/or denies care to save money and increase profits. Wendell Potter, co-founder of Business for Medicare for All and former Communications Dir…
How our healthcare system fails women — and what we can do about it
Learn about the unique challenges women face when it comes to accessing health care. Dr. Ana Malinow, a pediatrician, and her husband Dr. Aleksandar Rajkovic, an obstetrician, talk with host Brenda G…
How to make health care more affordable
Find out why health care costs so much -- and how Medicare for All would help. Host Brenda Gazzar and long-time consumer advocate Harry Snyder, a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, disc…
'Cruel and Stupid?' How our healthcare system affects doctors and patients
Join host Brenda Gazzar as she explores how our ultra-complicated healthcare system affects doctors and their patients. Dr. Paul Song, radiation oncologist and president of Physicians for a National …