Prescription for Healthcare – WFHB

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A podcast collaboration between WFHB and Medicare for All Indiana hosted by Rob and Karen Green Stone. Airs on the WFHB Local News on the second Thursday of each month at 5 p.m.

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Prescription for Healthcare – Gloria Bent “Denied by a Medicare Advantage Algorithm” July 2026 05.07.2026 15:37

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Gloria Bent from Connecticut where she went through a nightmare of care denial from United Healthcare’s Medicare …

Prescription for Healthcare – Karen Palmer, Canadian Healthcare Policy Expert, “US Doctors are Moving to Canada ” June, 2026 17.06.2026 14:58

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.   This month we interview Karen Palmer, adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University in BritishColumbia, Canada, an independent health policy analyst, …

Prescription for Healthcare – Ethan Fairbanks MD, “Evolution of a medical student activist” May, 2026 14.05.2026 15:01

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Ethan Fairbanks, a fourth-year medical student at Indiana University School of Medicine, soon to be Dr. Ethan …

Prescription for Healthcare – Lori Clark and Helen Bassett, “Students for a National Health Program” April, 2026 07.04.2026 15:35

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Lori Clark, the National Organizer with Physicians for a National Health Program, and Helen Bassett, a fourth …

Prescription for Healthcare – Peter Hotez MD, PhD, “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science” March 2026 09.03.2026 20:08

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month, March 2026, due to spring break, we are going to re-broadcast our show originally aired in July 2026 with …

Prescription for Healthcare – Attorney Sheldon Toubman, “How Connecticut De-privatized its Medicaid Program” February, 2026 09.02.2026 15:32

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview attorney Sheldon Toubman, the litigation attorney with Disabilities Rights, Connecticut, which serves individuals with a broad range …

Prescription for Healthcare – Belinda McIntosh MD , “How Medicare Advantage Fails Seniors of Color” January, 2026 05.01.2026 17:37

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr Belinda McIntosh, a psychiatrist in Atlanta, Georgia, and board member of Physicians for a National Health …

Prescription for Healthcare – Rose Roach, “How to De-Privatize Indiana’s Medicaid Program” December, 2025 26.11.2025 15:02

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Rose Roach, the National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Chair of Healthcare For …

Prescription for Healthcare – Erin Jeffries MD, “Women’s Healthcare Indiana 2025” November, 2025 10.11.2025 15:02

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Erin Jeffries MD, a physician who has dedicated her medical practice to women’s healthcare specializing in obstetrics …

Prescription for Healthcare – Ed Weisbart MD, “Save Indiana Medicaid by Removing the Middlemen (insurance companies)” October, 2025 03.10.2025 15:20

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr Ed Weisbart from St Louis, a frequent guest on the program. On his last few visits …

Prescription for Healthcare – Tracey Hutchings-Goetz, “Hoosier Action Organizes to Protect Medicaid” September, 2025 08.09.2025 15:52

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Tracey Hutchings-Goetz with Hoosier Action, a homegrown community organization rooted in small-town Southern Indiana, and led by their …

Prescription for Healthcare – Dr. Rob Stone, “Medicaid Cuts Affect Everyone” August, 2025 10.08.2025 15:02

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Medicare for All Indiana co-founder Dr. Rob Stone to talk about the effects of the Medicaid cuts …

Prescription for Healthcare – Wade Catt Medical Student and PhD Candidate, “Medicaid at Risk” June, 2025 08.06.2025 15:03

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Wade Catt, an MD/PhD student at Indiana University School of Medicine. His PhD will be in Sociology …

Prescription for Healthcare – Diljeet Singh MD, “Hope – the reintroduction of the Medicare for All Bill” May, 2025 06.05.2025 15:20

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr Diljeet Singh, the President of Physicians for a National Health Program, to talk about the recent …

Prescription for Healthcare – Ed Weisbart MD, “Project 2025 and the Threat to Medicare” April 2025 01.04.2025 15:13

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr. Ed Weisbart, a physician in St Louis who is the board Secretary of Physicians for a …

Prescription for Healthcare – Joey Ballard MD, “Medical Debt – Advocating for Patients” March, 2025 07.03.2025 14:57

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr. Joey Ballard, a 2024 graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine, now doing an internal …

Prescription for Healthcare – Walter Tsou MD, “Healthcare should be a public good, not a market commodity” February, 2025 08.02.2025 14:59

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month is part 2 of our interview with Dr Walter Tsou, the past president of the American Public Health Association …

Prescription for Healthcare – Walter Tsou MD, “What can Cuba teach us about healthcare delivery” January, 2025 04.01.2025 15:21

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr Walter Tsou, the past president of the American Public Health Association and former health commissioner of …

Prescription for Healthcare – Linda Rae Murray MD, “Health Inequities, Racism, and Colonialism” December, 2024 10.12.2024 15:25

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr Linda Rae Murray, legendary Chicago physician for the medically underserved, and a voice for social justice …

Prescription for Healthcare – Wendell Potter, health insurance industry whistle-blower, “Moving ahead after a tough election” November, 2024 10.11.2024 14:19

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we are talking with Wendell Potter who was our very first guest on Prescription for Health Care in of …

Prescription for Healthcare – Rob Stone MD, “Medicaid and Medicare Fraud in Indiana” October, 2024 08.10.2024 15:04

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview our cohost Dr Rob Stone about Medicaid and Medicare fraud in the news in Indiana, and the …

Prescription for Healthcare – Danielle Bargo, DrPH Candidate, “Indiana’s Inequitable Hospital Charges” September, 2024 10.09.2024 15:01

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Danielle Bargo, native Hoosier, health economist, and a doctoral student in health policy at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg …

Prescription for Healthcare – Carrie Rouse MD, “Frontline Report: Reproductive Healthcare in Indiana 2024.” August, 2024 06.08.2024 14:58

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Carrie Rouse MD. Dr. Rouse is an OBGYN in Indianapolis who specializes in maternal fetal care, especially …

Prescription for Healthcare – Claudia Fegan MD, “EMTALA, Abortion, and Healthcare” July, 2024 10.07.2024 15:22

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr. Claudia Fegan, the Chief Medical Officer of Cook County Health in Chicago and the National Coordinator …

Prescription for Healthcare – Dr Ed Weisbart, “Medicare Dis-Advantage” June 2024 09.06.2024 15:30

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we welcome back and again interview Dr. Ed Weisbart from St Louis, the national Board Secretary of Physicians for …