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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.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:44:41, 9 October 2023 🧬

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 Trans Misogyny,” coming in January from Verso. 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

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 here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:32:42, 2 October 2023 🧬

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/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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 🧬

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 imposed on them that produce policy in the mold of austerity? Political scientist and Death Panel podcast co-host Philip Rocco is joined by historians Gabriel Winant and Salonee Bhaman to discuss how fiscal decentralization has become an underappreciated force driving the healthcare politics of the United States, and what it can tell us about where we are now. Gabriel Winant will participate in this session remotely. Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2023 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-the-state-austerity-and-the-politics-of-healthcare Find a transcript of Session 4, Decolonial Disability Politics and the Left (mentioned at the top of the episode), here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dp-x-s23-and-4-89458216 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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 Gavin Newsom’s Care Courts, that seek to criminalize madness and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They also discuss why it is so critical for the left to work against these policies, and how to understand the politics of what Ben-Moshe has termed “carceral sanism.” Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2023 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-resisting-carceral-sanism Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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 populations to injury, debility, and premature death, and how social murder is a key component of capitalism, not merely a side effect. Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2023 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-how-capitalism-kills-covid-and-social-murder Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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 sessions. Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2023 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-health-and-capital Timecodes: 0:00 - Introduction to session recordings and thanks from the Panel 4:50 - Session recording begins Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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 masking joke. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:33:35, 11 September 2023 🧬

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. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/lifetime-care-dr-william-bronston Find Bronston's book "Public Hostage, Public Ransom" here: https://www.publichostagepublicransom.org/ and the state single payer plan he coauthored here: https://caltcha.org/model 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

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 Urban History of Inequality and the American State” here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo159872695.html Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:30:25, 4 September 2023 🧬

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

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/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:20:40, 28 August 2023 🧬

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.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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 from Verso. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:29:59, 21 August 2023 🧬

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 August 22nd here: https://forms.gle/5eqMQ15uNsPQeM2j7 Read NNU's letter to Mandy Cohen here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/sites/default/files/nnu/documents/0723_HICPAC_experts_letter_background_combined_FINAL.pdf 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

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 of "back to normal," and how Leonhardt's analyses of everything from covid to traffic accidents don't add up. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:14:45 🧬

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 would have "the potential to destroy businesses and curtail, if not outright end, the provision of essential public services." Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/unlimited-liabilities-nate-holdren 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

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 🧬

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. 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

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, 31 July 2023 🧬

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

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 🧬

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 Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court" https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court "The Straight Man in the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Not the Real Problem" https://newrepublic.com/article/174113/straight-man-gay-wedding-website-case-not-real-problem 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

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 🧬

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 Find the episode Bea mentions, "Feminist Jails" with Mon M. and Diana Joy, here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/feminist-jails-w-mon-m-and-diana-joy-090822

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 2023 🧬

Bea, Phil, and Jules speak with lawyer and welfare scholar Elenore Wade about the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/85541930 Bea, Artie, and Abby reflect on Rochelle Walensky's tenure as CDC Director, which came to an end on Friday. We take a close look at some of her more recent public statements to see what they tell us about the Biden covid response thus far, including Walensky's recent opinion piece in the New York Times, "Our Pandemic Despair Is Fading Too Quickly," and her recent testimony before congress. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:36:02, 3 July 2023 🧬

Bea and Abby speak with Kathy McAfee about how capitalist "solutions" to climate crisis--like carbon trading and offset markets--don't work, and how ultimately there is no such thing as "green capitalism." 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 For more on the concept of "The Right to Maim" that Beatrice references in this episode, see our episode with Jasbir Puar here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/body-politics-w-jasbir-puar-unlocked

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/85160548 Bea speaks with Tiffany L. Green about how ending mask mandates in healthcare settings further threatens the US' already shameful perinatal mortality rates, and how to think about the linkages between covid and reproductive justice. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:06:50, 26 June 2023 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you appreciate this episode, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea and Abby speak with Adia Benton about how neoliberalism constrains what public health interventions are considered possible while simultaneously expanding what political issues can be depoliticized as simply a "public health issue." We also look at some of Adia's statements from early in the pandemic on the role of austerity in shaping the covid response, and discuss how development and NGO work shapes the political economy of health. Adia Benton is a cultural anthropologist who studies global health, biomedicine, and the political economy of humanitarianism. She is a Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University and the author of HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone. Find Adia's book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hiv-exceptionalism 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84818691 Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the latest updates on the Medicaid "unwinding"—the months-long process that has already led to 1.3 million people being kicked off of Medicaid—and the extremely lax response the media and the Biden administration have taken towards it so far. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:17:44, 19 June 2023 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the medication abortion case that made its way to the Supreme Court last week, and discuss the long and sordid history of the Comstock Act, a 19th century “anti-obscenity” law that continues to shape the modern US state’s regulation of sexuality. Melissa Gira Grant is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work and the forthcoming book A Woman Is Against the Law: Sex, Race, and the Limits of Justice in America. 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84473030 Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss the impact of Florida's sweeping anti-trans bill, SB 254, and why the federal judge's injunction against it that made news last week as a "stinging rebuke to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis" is a little more complicated than it may appear. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:30:43, 5 June 2023 🧬

Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss some of the impacts of the end of the public health emergency one month out, and share listener stories that directly contradict the prevailing narrative that the pandemic "tools" are still free and readily accessible. 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 Submit comments to CMS by June 9th here: bit.ly/cmscomment If you want to submit stories like the ones we share in this episode, you can do so here: bit.ly/adminburden Links to future CMS public comment periods here: bit.ly/morecmscomments

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84120459 Bea speaks with Marshall Steinbaum about the debt ceiling deal and the provisions in it—from student loan repayments to new work requirements—that amount to a recommitment to austerity. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:30:43, 5 June 2023 🧬

Bea speaks with Andrea Ritchie about the movement to defund and abolish policing, how police budgets sap resources from state and local governments, and how to understand abolition as a core principle that advances the goals of so many other movements. Find Andrea's book, co-authored with Mariame Kaba, "No More Police: A Case for Abolition" here: https://thenewpress.com/books/no-more-police Find more information on Interrupting Criminalization and the "Beyond Do No Harm" project here: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no-harm 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83728759 Bea speaks with Lily Sánchez about Ricardo Nuila's popular new book "The People's Hospital," which purports to paint a compassionate picture of how to fix the US healthcare system, while ignoring—and reinforcing—the structural issues that make the system so bad in the first place. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:18:19, 29 May 2023 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83389515 Bea, Phil, and Abby speak with Gabe Winant about the faux class politics of Republican Senator J.D. Vance, how his 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy pathologizes the poor, and his adherence to the work of inveterate race scientist Charles Murray. Read Gabe's piece for n+1, "J.D. Vance Changes the Subject" here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/ Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:20:15, 22 May 2023 🧬

Bea speaks with Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes about their new book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, released this week. Find Let This Radicalize You here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you 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 TRANSCRIPT: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/let-this-radicalize-you-mariame-kaba-kelly-hayes

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83053730 Bea, Artie, and Abby look at how mainstream discourse surrounding the murder of Jordan Neely on May 1st devolved into victim blaming, and how New York Mayor Eric Adams is using the moment to push for the expansion of involuntary hospitalization. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:08:32, 15 May 2023 🧬

With the public health emergency declaration ending today, May 11th, we turn back the clock to early 2021, mere days into the Biden presidency, and the moment it became clear the US was going to "end the pandemic" not by stopping covid, but by re-narrating its social and political meaning. 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82700562 Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss how the end of the public health emergency has become an opportunity for pundits and media organizations assert some interpretations of the last three years over others, making—and denying—the meaning of the pandemic as a result. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:16:32, 8 May 2023 🧬

With one week until the official end of the public health emergency, Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's long-promised and newly unveiled plans to continue providing free covid vaccines and therapeutics to the uninsured, and just how remarkably their announced plans fall short. 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/82338265 Bea speaks with Zoé Samudzi and M.E. O’Brien about the first issue of Parapraxis Magazine: “The Family Problem,” the anti-trans “groomer” panic, and the evangelical promotion of adoption as a policy replacement for abortion. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:07:45, 1 May 2023 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss Eric Adams' initiative to broadly expand involuntary hospitalization law and policy in New York, and the dark history of psychiatric institutionalization he appears to want to bring back. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Read Bea and Artie's piece about this in The Nation (from December) here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/adams-forced-hospitalization/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/81971897 Bea and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the medication abortion case that made its way to the Supreme Court last week, and discuss the long and sordid history of the Comstock Act, a 19th century “anti-obscenity” law that continues to shape the modern US state’s regulation of sexuality. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:44:30, 24 April 2023 🧬