Death Panel

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/57010611 Libby Watson joins us to sort out last week's reconciliation bill mess, the unceremonious termination of pandemic COBRA benefits, and the ongoing pundit obsession with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. Subscribe to Libby's newsletter Sick Note at sicknote.co Runtime 1:13:47, 5 October 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/56682062 We discuss the increasing politicization of monoclonal antibody treatments for covid-19, why they're so absent from the national debate over covid response, treatment, and IP, and the Biden administration's recent decision to adjust the quantities it ships to states. Runtime 1:08:58, 28 September 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/56398292 We set out to discuss the deprioritization of long-term care in the reconciliation bill and a New York Times investigative report on rampant chemical sedation in nursing homes, and end up explaining the history of chemical incarceration and how nursing homes exist as part of the prison industrial complex. Runtime 1:11:54, 21 September 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/56123726 We discuss a new CDC report that complicates public insistence that dangers to the vaccinated are overblown. Then we discuss the eminently dismissible work of philosopher Peter Singer, 2021 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize, and his 2009 essay "Why We Must Ration Health Care." Runtime 1:11:07, 14 September 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/55839379 Beatrice speaks with Charlotte Shane about the Texas abortion ban and why a politics that stops at "access" and "choice" is insufficient to meet the needs of the moment. Read Charlotte's piece "Stop Being Stupid About Abortion" here: https://www.gawker.com/politics/stop-being-stupid-about-abortion Charlotte Shane is the author of Prostitute Laundry, and a co-founder of TigerBee Press. Follow her on twitter @CharoShane. Runtime 1:02:55, 7 September 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/55537032 We discuss the Supreme Court's move to strike down the eviction moratorium, the state of rent relief programs in Louisiana following Hurricane Ida, and read from the court's memorable, if bizarre, written decision. Runtime 1:03:19, 30 August 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/55253198 We discuss reporting from over the weekend that Abbott Laboratories, makers of a widely used covid test, systematically destroyed hundreds of thousands of tests; new details on the prevalence of consulting groups in the White House and in state public health responses; and how to make it look like you're responding to a pandemic when you're going about business as usual. Runtime 1:22:55, 23 August 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/54980742 (Teaser) We discuss the FDA and CDC's decision last week on booster vaccine doses for immunocompromised people, the state of the pandemic, and of course: the resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Runtime 1:07:31, 16 August 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/54439324 (Teaser) We discuss the expiration of the eviction moratorium and what the leaked internal CDC presentation tells us about the delta variant and the next few months of the pandemic. Runtime 1:13:21, 2 August 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/54144257 (Teaser) We mark the occasion of Jeff Bezos' spaceflight with a look at the last few decades of increasingly pro-capitalist space policies that made it possible, and the lobbying efforts of the so called "NewSpace" movement that won them. Runtime 1:19:32, 26 July 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/53875622 (Teaser) We discuss the Biden administration's new line that we have a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" fueled by "the disinformation dozen," and how to understand the rise in covid cases. Then we take a closer look at New York City's attempt to rapidly expel unhoused people from midtown hotels. Runtime 1:02:06, 19 July 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/53570806/ (Teaser) We discuss the CDC's latest guidance change for fall school reopening and the implications of Pfizer's lawsuit to get around a long-established drug pricing norm. But first, we break out the calipers to look at one research team's quest to determine whether certain genetic traits made some people more susceptible to covid than others. Runtime 1:06:19, 12 July 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/53339178 (Teaser) We take advantage of the holiday weekend to survey the extremely messy history that led to the passage of original Medicare, the role private insurers and other industry groups played in its creation, and some of its unintended consequences we live with to this day. Runtime 1:16:49, 5 July 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/52967262/ (Teaser) We discuss Britney Spears' testimony from last week over her conservatorship and what so much of the public debate around it has missed. Runtime 1:15:24, 28 June 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/52767971 (Teaser) We discuss historical formulations of madness and institutionalization in light of Andrew Yang's recent comments on incarcerating the mentally ill. But first, we check in on the recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act and explain why so many insurance companies are happy the law was upheld. Runtime 1:17:35, 21 June 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/52502011 (Teaser) We discuss an absurd new policy advanced at this year's G7 meeting to "Build Back Better World" and counter China's belt and road initiative. Then we discuss new updates in the Biden administration's forthcoming Supreme Court case US v. Vaello-Madero, where the administration will seek to make clear that people in Puerto Rico and other territories aren't owed the same social welfare programs as residents of states. Runtime 1:11:45, 14 June 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/52227601 (Teaser) We discuss the viral New York Times piece "How to Rearrange Your Post-Pandemic Friendscape" and trace the intellectual history of the ideas it promotes directly back to the eugenics movement. But first, we look forward to "The God Committee," a film about Death Panels. Runtime 1:09:16, 7 June 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/51930643 (Teaser) We discuss what is—and isn't—happening with Democrats' latest move on the public option, and break down what their request for more information about it suggests about the flaws in their latest approach to health policy. Runtime 1:21:38, 31 May 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/51640584 (Teaser) [This teaser features an extended clip from Bea's interview with Harsha Walia] We discuss how the Israel-Gaza ceasefire leaves a great deal of other forms of violence on Palestinians unaddressed, and by listener request get further into a paper on settler colonialism and public health mentioned in our last episode. Then (35:30), Bea speaks with Harsha Walia about the historical formation of borders and her book "Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism." Find Harsha's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1553-border-and-rule Runtime 1:15:17, 24 May 2021 🧬