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We are Timothy Faust and Kelly Jo. We really like health policy and heavy metal. Every other-week or so we'll discuss a current-ish event we think is interesting, and a health policy or health law paper we're into. We'll also discuss a metal album and attempt to say "this kicks ass" in as many words as possible for a few minutes.

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V. Cantique Lepreux: Title IX, the DeVos Death Drive, and Sexual Misconduct in Public Health

Oh my god, we're back again. This week, special guest and longtime Title IX professional Kate talks to us about the leaked DeVos Title IX regulations. They suck bigtime! We cover the origin story of Title IX as a tool to address sexual misconduct in universities, its development under the Obama administration, the specific ways DeVos intends to gut it, and the real rancid reactionary movement undergirding her efforts--especially her bizarre use of austerity language. Please consider rating or re...

Oct 11, 2018•1 hr 19 min

IV. Substratum: The Present & Future of Anti-Choice & Anti-Welfare Legislation and Cool Ways to Fight Back

Yeah! We're back in this. Did you miss us? We missed you so much. Help us fund abortion access in Mississippi: http://bit.ly/fundabortion If we raise $6900 Tim will reopen the Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer shirt sale & add two new extremely sick abortion shirts. This week, we talk about anti-choice legislation in the Trump era and what we think it indicates for the future aims of the anti-choice movement. Then we detail new, sinister Medicaid work requirements, "weaponized experimentalism", ...

Apr 05, 2018•1 hr 2 min

III-B. Kvelertak II: Fetal Protection Laws and the Consequences of Health Injustice

Yeah! Here's Part B. We discuss fetal protection laws. This is extremely heinous—pregnant women denied abortions imprisoned for attempted feticide, then shackled while giving birth—and we wanted to give it the space it deserves and take time to edit it thoroughly. It contains within it all the dangers of a perverse nation regulating healthcare—structural racism, sexism, and the carceral state.These are the forces that must be defeated to realize health justice. Enjoy! Please consider rating or r...

Oct 02, 2017•34 min

III-A. Kvelertak: Bernie's "Medicare for All" Bill and the Optimism of Single-Payer

Two-parter this week. In III-A, this one, we discuss Bernie Sanders's "Medicare for All" bill—what it contains, what it means, our hopes for what's within it, and our concerns about what's still inadequate. It's good! We also listen to Kvelertak's "Nattesferd," from which we got our theme music. In III-B, coming later this weekend, we discuss fetal protection laws. This is extremely heinous—pregnant women denied abortions imprisoned for attempted feticide, then shackled while giving birth—and we...

Sep 29, 2017•39 min•Ep. 3

II. Sacrilege: Insurer Discrimination, Payment Structures, & Redistributive Healthcare Financing

[Show note: Tim made a pop filter for Kelly Jo and then while futzing with it mistakenly hit the button that mutes the mixer (?) so we accidentally recorded this episode on his shitty laptop mic without realizing it. Sorry!!!! Luckily our friend Dan Thorn up at Pink Noise Studios in Somerville took our files and made the result listenable. Hell right.] - Kelly Jo talks about some ways insurers discriminate against people with preexisting conditions (specifically HIV/AIDS) and the weaponization o...

Sep 21, 2017•43 min

I. Cirith Ungol: Cost Bundling & Carceral Health Injustice

Our first episode! We are Timothy Faust and Kelly Jo. We really like health policy and heavy metal. Every other-week or so we'll discuss a current-ish event we think is interesting, and a health policy or health law paper we're into. We'll also discuss a metal album and attempt to say "this kicks ass" in as many words as possible for a few minutes. Here's Episode 1, where we attempt to discuss ACOs and bundled payments (a clearer discussion of basic payment models comes in Episode 2) and how car...

Sep 13, 2017•58 min

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