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Code WACK!

HEAL California

Code WACK! shines a light on our callous healthcare system and what we can do about it. It reveals the healthcare hassles that - far from being just annoying - threaten our peace of mind, our financial security and at times, our very lives. Join us each week as we chat about the challenges that patients and healthcare providers face, amplifying their voices and examining a range of possible solutions, including Medicare for All. Powered by HEAL California, a project of the California OneCare Education Fund, Code WACK! informs the vital discussion of healthcare reform.

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351 episodes

  1. When Doctors Can't Help Patients: The Moral Injury Crisis 12:17
  2. 'The debt won't end until I'm gone.' Cancer & Medical Debt 11:16
  3. Cancer, Copays and the Cost of Staying Alive 10:20
  4. The Troubling Truth About Memory Care: What Families Need to Know 14:01
  5. Insurers Are Denying Patients Care. What Needs To Change? 15:19
  6. When Health Insurance Denies a Baby's Cancer Treatment 18:06
  7. Why Labor Unions Are Essential to Winning Medicare for All 12:12
  8. Labor Day: Why Every Union Negotiation Is Really About Health Care 16:37
  9. 340B: The Drug Discount Patients May Never See 11:33
  10. In Debt and Desperate: The Hidden Cost of Getting Sick 11:09
  11. 'Rationing by Inconvenience:' How Insurers Keep Patients From Care 14:24
  12. Health Coverage Denied? Appeal. You might win! 15:50
  13. What the New UCLA Report Reveals About California Single Payer 12:38
  14. California's Next Governor Could Transform Healthcare—or Gut It. Becerra vs. Hilton 15:30
  15. When Your Health Insurance Says 'No' to Your Doctor's Orders 14:40
  16. When Insurance Cuts Eating Disorder Care Too Soon 13:31
  17. We've accepted this healthcare system as normal. Should we? 12:53
  18. Breaking Free From America's Medical-Industrial Complex 9:47
  19. Why Nursing Home Residents Need the Essential Caregivers Act 15:06
  20. 'No Way to Live': The Cost of Nursing Home Isolation 12:50
  21. Fighting From the Grave for the New York Health Act 11:22
  22. Mariana Pineda: Presente 11:38
  23. Why Canadians Don't Have to Fight Health Insurers 8:17
  24. The Truth About Canada's Healthcare Wait Times 13:08
  25. Too Poor for Insurance, Too Sick to Wait: America's Healthcare Trap 17:55
  26. UnitedHealth's Dangerous Takeover of U.S. Health Care 10:11
  27. Why the Same Drug Costs 3x More (And Who Decides) 10:42
  28. Designed to Fail: How Insurance Denials Really Work 9:35
  29. Why Employers Are 'Flying Blind' on Healthcare Costs 13:24
  30. The Health Insurance Black Box: Why Employer Healthcare Costs Keep Rising 16:27
  31. States Push Back Against Medicaid Managed Care 18:31
  32. The Middlemen Making Money Off Medicaid 16:46
  33. The Hidden Cost of Private Equity Hospital Buyouts 15:10
  34. Is private equity in health care killing us? 18:01
  35. Insured But Still Can't Afford Care? The Underinsured Crisis 16:01
  36. The Deadly Design of U.S. Health Care 17:49
  37. Why Insured Americans Still Need Charity Clinics 17:01
  38. The Real Cost of Health Insurance Nobody Talks About 13:31
  39. Medicare Advantage Is Breaking America's Promise to Seniors 18:01
  40. No real choice.' How Medicare Advantage fails seniors 17:00
  41. Is racism in health care still a problem in 2026? Absolutely. 12:31
  42. Revisiting America's racist - and deadly - legacy 16:01
  43. Inside California's Push for Guaranteed Healthcare 14:26
  44. Why More Americans Want Medicare for All 15:01
  45. Aging in place is hard. Could neighbors be an answer? 13:12
  46. The Caregiving Crisis Is Here - and America Isn't Ready 18:31
  47. The hidden forces behind skyrocketing health insurance costs 18:01
  48. 'Widespread Panic:' Rising Premiums and Shrinking Subsidies Explained 16:02
  49. Love your Medicare Advantage plan? It does NOT love you back 18:01
  50. BS, Gaslighting & AI: Demystifying the health insurance denial process 18:01