This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 22nd 2022, and we are re-releasing it today alongside a new transcript of the conversation. (This is in addition to our regular schedule, a new episode will be up tomorrow like usual). Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/public-health-palestine-danya-qato Original episode description: Beatrice speaks with Danya Qato about the political economy of health in Palestine and how to understand th...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/90648358/ Bea, Artie, and Abby pick apart a recent paper by Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Høeg, and Shamez Ladhani claiming that "methodological pitfalls" have led to the prevalence of long covid being “overestimated,” and that the problem with acknowledging high rates of long covid is that it will lead to “increased social anxiety and healthcare spending.” Get Health Communism here: www.versob...
Oct 10, 2023•15 min
Today's episode was originally a patron exclusive. To support the show and get more episodes like this, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Bea and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care, and tease Jules’ new book, “A Short History of ...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/90195142 Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together. Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives Get Health Communism h...
Oct 03, 2023•4 min
Bea, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how the widely reported expense and unavailability of the new covid boosters is the disastrous (and predictable) consequence of the Biden administration’s move to kick covid vaccines and therapeutics to the private market. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/covid-booster-rollout-fall-2023 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rico-w-dan-09-25-89831745 Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists and the long history of RICO being used as a tool of repression against left movements. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:25:39, 25 September 2023 🧬
Sep 25, 2023•5 min
Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week. Session Description: The healthcare struggles of the last century have been profoundly shaped by the structures of US federalism: what resources are allocated to states, and what artificial constraints are ...
Sep 21, 2023•59 min
Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week. In this session, "Resisting Carceral Sanism" Beatrice, Liat Ben-Moshe, and Leah Harris discuss the increasing wave of policies and legislation, from Eric Adams’ stance on involuntary hospitalization to Gavi...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week. In this session, "How Capitalism Kills: Social Murder and Covid-19," Artie, Abby, and Nate Holdren discuss Friedrich Engels’ concept of “social murder,” the structural forces within capitalism that abandon ...
Sep 19, 2023•48 min
Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week. In this session, "Health and Capital (Intro)," Beatrice and Artie discuss some ways to think about the intersection of healthcare, disability, and left politics, and introduce each of the rest of the sessio...
Sep 18, 2023•36 min
Bea and Jules speak with Naomi Klein about left melancholy, coping with and working against years of disastrous pandemic response, and her new book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. Find Doppelganger here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/doppelganger-naomi-klein Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/89127060 Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss how to assess the pandemic as we stare down yet another wave with little to no reliable information, and look at some pervasive tropes in recent reporting on covid that project a sense of unearned certainty. We also discuss Vinay Prasad's recent open appeal to get people to stop reporting positive covid tests to schools and employers, and Biden's maski...
Sep 12, 2023•5 min
Today's episode was originally a patron exclusive. To support the show and get more episodes like this, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Bea and Phil speak with lifelong activist William Bronston about his experiences trying to take down the infamous Willowbrook institution from within as a young doctor, his appeal to replace “long term care” with “lifetime care," and how his work towards deinstitutionalization informs his ongoing advocacy for single payer healthcare. Tra...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88748320 Bea, Phil, and Jules speak with Claire Dunning about the complex history of how nonprofit organizations became so pervasive in US political life and the issues with how the non-profit system promises to address big, structural problems while at the same time structurally constraining what these groups are and aren't allowed to do. Find Claire’s book, “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An U...
Sep 05, 2023•5 min
Bea speaks with Micha Frazer-Carroll about her new book Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mad-world-micha-frazer-carroll Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88383833 Bea and Phil speak with lifelong activist William Bronston about his experiences trying to take down the infamous Willowbrook institution from within as a young Doctor, his appeal to replace “long term care” with “lifetime care," and how his work towards deinstitutionalization informs his ongoing advocacy for single payer healthcare. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/b...
Aug 29, 2023•6 min
Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how the Medicaid "Unwinding," which has already seen over 5 million and counting lose their social safety net health insurance, is still being treated as such an afterthought in the press, even as the Biden administration does nothing to stop it. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/unwound-medicaid-unwinding Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deat...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88036153 Bea and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care, and tease Jules’ new book, “A Short History of Trans Misogyny,” coming in January f...
Aug 22, 2023•6 min
Bea speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about troubling new guidance changes the CDC is considering that would further weaken infection control in healthcare settings, and NNU's campaign to stop it. You can help out NNU's campaign at the links below, including giving public comment at the CDC's meeting on August 22nd. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/infection-control-cdc-nnu Sign on to NNU's letter here: nnu.org/cdc Sign up to give public testimony on Aug...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/87687937 We're taking this week off for research and to gear up for what we've got planned for the show in the fall. With that in mind—and since David Leonhardt has been back to writing about covid again recently—today we're revisiting a favorite from last year: our conversation with Jacob Bacharach about what made Leonhardt's New York Times newsletter The Morning such an influential voice...
Aug 15, 2023•4 min
We're taking the week of the 14th off for research and to gear up for what we've got planned for the show in the fall. In the meantime, if you appreciate this episode, or just want to support our work, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod to unlock more patron exclusive episodes just like this. In today's show, Bea and Artie speak with Nate Holdren about a recent court ruling in California that denied a covid worker's compensation claim because recognizing employer liability ...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 29 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/87350129 Bea, Artie, Abby, and Phil discuss the media's collective shrug over rising covid hospitalizations and Ashish Jha's recent op-ed “With a few basic steps, most of us can finally ignore COVID.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:29:32, 7 August 2023 🧬
Aug 08, 2023•7 min
Bea and Jules mark the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as part of the broader story of welfare state retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s, and the broader story of how it got this way. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform Note: Sadly we lost Jules' recording to a technical issue, so this episode uses her backup track. Fi...
Aug 03, 2023•2 hr
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86959200 Bea and Artie speak with Nate Holdren about a recent court ruling in California that denied a covid worker's compensation claim because recognizing employer liability would have "the potential to destroy businesses and curtail, if not outright end, the provision of essential public services." Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:30:10...
Aug 01, 2023•8 min
Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the career and opinions of Biden's new CDC Director Mandy Cohen and how her self-described mission to rebuild "trust" in the agency is only half the story. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86590741 Bea and Abby speak with labor journalist Kim Kelly about the sharp increase in black lung cases in the last few decades, and what people are made to bear as “expected impairments” in the service of extractive capitalism. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:40:14, 17 July 2023 🧬
Jul 25, 2023•7 min
Bea speaks with Melissa Gira Grant about the reporting she broke about the Supreme Court case 303 Creative v. Elenis: that the supposed request for a gay marriage website at the center of the case was never actually made. What follows is a bigger story about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, and the influence of right wing activist groups like the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF). Read Melissa's reporting on this in the New Republic here: "The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Webs...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86249327 In a recent interview, former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky was asked a series of questions that mirror our critiques from the episode "Covid Year Three." Bea, Artie, and Abby take a close look at what was revealed. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:40:14, 17 July 2023 🧬
Jul 18, 2023•10 min
Bea and Jules speak with Seth Prins about “criminogenic risk assessment,” a set of tools used across the criminal legal system that purports to not only assess an individual's likelihood of criminalized behavior, but to determine the underlying causes of "crime" itself. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Fi...
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 27 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/85889048 Bea and Phil speak with Tim Faust about how the US healthcare system compounds the health issues of indie wrestlers and other people engaged in non-traditional or precarious work, and how the ways that we pay for healthcare in the US constitute a powerful form of labor discipline. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:18:04, 10 July 20...
Jul 11, 2023•5 min
