In Good Society Sydney Sauer

Insulin is one of the most disproportionately expensive drugs in America, and for many diabetics, the consequences of that cost can be life-threatening. On this episode, activist and mutual aid organizer Zoe Witt explains how our current healthcare system prevents many diabetics from being able to afford their insulin and how that lack of access affects health outcomes. They also share their personal experiences rationing insulin and explain how their organization, Mutual Aid Diabetes, is tackling the problem head-on.

Read more about the insulin crisis: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-10-07/insulin-cost-cap-democrats-biden-congress

Contribute to MAD: https://mutualaiddiabetes.com/donate/

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Not only do health outcomes in the US fall short of other developed countries, but some groups disproportionately carry the burden of poor health. In this episode, we look at how race, class, and gender affect the quality of care that people receive and their odds of living a long, healthy life. Licensed social worker and University of Texas at Austin doctoral candidate Liana Petruzzi walks us through the reasons why medical care varies so widely between these groups and how factors like immigration and gender nonconforming identities make things even more complicated. By the end of the show, you'll understand how identity impacts access to care and why universal healthcare is an important step towards resolving these disparities.

Explore health disparities by race: https://americanprogress.org/article/health-disparities-race-ethnicity/

By gender: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/60/Special_Issue_2/S40/2965171

By class: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/49116/2000178-How-are-Income-and-Wealth-Linked-to-Health-and-Longevity.pdf

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Around the world, the US is an outlier when it comes to healthcare policy. In this episode, University of Notre Dame PhD candidate Mette Evelyn Bjerre walks us through the ways that healthcare in the US sticks out from other countries. From how much we pay to how long we wait for the doctor, Eve shares the surprising facts and experiences that make American healthcare so different—and so much less efficient—than the other places she's lived. You'll also hear stories from Giulia Zattoni, an Italian international student at the University of Cincinnati, about the culture shock of American healthcare.

Drug pricing data: https://waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ways-and-means-committee-releases-report-international-drug-pricing

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What is universal healthcare, and why is the United States the only major country without it? Throughout November and December, we're exploring the push for universal healthcare and investigating how it could benefit Americans. To kick off our discussion, Dr. Lindy Hern from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo answered my burning questions about the topic. We talked through our nation's current healthcare system and the problems it causes, what different types of universal systems look like around the world, and how a single payer system would make healthcare in the US more efficient, inclusive, and affordable.

Read Dr. Lindy Hern's book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42764-1

Explore statistics about US healthcare: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2019

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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a program that allows undocumented immigrants who came here as children to work and attend school legally for a limited period of time. To close out our discussion of the No Human Is Illegal movement, I talk with Dr. Alessandra Bazo Vienrich about how this legislation has helped young immigrants and where it still falls short. We discuss what it takes to get DACA status, how being undocumented inhibits students' educational success, and what would happen to these undocumented students if DACA ceased to exist. By the end of the episode, you'll not only understand how DACA works, but you'll also get a glimpse into the complicated process of making "good" immigration policies. 

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Each year, thousands of children show up alone at the US-Mexico border, and each new president tries to find an answer to the obvious yet unresolved question—how do we take care of them? In this episode, we'll explore how immigration policies have tried to protect unaccompanied minors and where the current programs fall short. Joining us is immigration reporter Laura Morel of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. She has been on the front lines of exposing the harsh realities of unaccompanied children's experiences, from ice-cold detention facilities to police brutality, while simultaneously working to correct the ways that mainstream media has misrepresented the crisis. We discussed where unaccompanied children go once they reach our border, how facilities care for their mental and physical wellbeing, migrant children's interactions with police, and more. By the end of the episode, you'll understand how our current immigration policies protect and fail to protect children, and you'll learn some human-centered ways that we could change the system for the better.

Listen to the podcast about police interactions with migrant children: https://revealnews.org/podcast/minor-violations/

Read Aura Bogado's article: https://revealnews.org/article/the-disappeared/

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