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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...

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/book...

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 st...

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...

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 reg...

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 Comm...

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...

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...

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 m...

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. G...

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 Chang...

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):...

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.versob...

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 (p...

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 her...

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 merc...

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-co...

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/b...

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 sexua...

Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss the end of mask mandates in healthcare settings, why masking in places like hospitals was a good idea even pre-pandemic, and the one US agency that could put the brakes on this development——but isn't. 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 alwa...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81660593 Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the pervasive, perennial myth that the Medicare and Social Security trust funds are on the brink of imminent collapse, a myth that feeds austerity in policymaking and false panic that the programs "won't be around" when younger generations grow old. Get...

Bea and Jules speak with Lexi McMenamin about the avalanche of anti-trans laws introduced in state legislatures this year, the Biden administration's very inadequate plan for how to approach trans rights under Title IX, and how traditional media outlets have almost universally failed trans kids. Lexi McMenamin is a writer and the News and Politics Editor at Teen Vogue. Find our book Health Communi...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/81319954 Bea and Artie speak with Nathan Tankus about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and why popular reporting on the bank's collapse only scratches the surface of the extraordinary measures that made up the government's response. Nathan walks us through how the Federal Reserve tipped its hand...

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea, Abby, and Jules speak with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about the overwhelming presence of blockbuster drug Ozempic in the media, and how almost every current take on it approaches the drug from a standpoint of unabashed antifatness. Find our book Health Commun...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/80998433 Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that echo our current pandemic. Find Kathryn's book "Necropolis: Disease, Power, a...