(2014/10/10) Mind the coverage gap (Health Care) - a podcast by BestOfTheLeft.com
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Edition #867
Mind the coverage gap
Today we take a look at the progress of the states adopting the medicaid expansion option created by the Affordable Care Act, what’s happening to those who continue to reject it and, as always, we get a reminder of what we really need to do to fix the system
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: AZ Expands Medicaid, Hospitals Increase Margins - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 07-16-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Messages - Food In the Belly
Ch. 4: Act 2: Gov Says No To Obamacare, Then Blames Obama - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 08-02-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Master Plan - It Still Moves
Ch. 6: Act 3: Docs: Kentucky learns to love Obamacare - @BBC Documentaries - Air Date: 7-17-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Success - Lust for Life
Ch. 8: Act 4: Why Super-Conservative States Now Bending on Obamacare - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 09-06-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Where You Don't Belong - From the Beats to the Bible
Ch. 10: Act 5: Republican Mike Kennedy's Insane Reason to Repeal ObamaCare... - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 09-05-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Fixing My Brain - I Don't Know What I'm Doing
Ch. 12: Act 6: Anti-Obamacare ads (REALLY) didn't work - @OnTheMedia - Air Date: 7-18-14"
Ch. 13: Song 6: Shades of Grey - River of Dreams
Ch. 14: Act 7: Even Red State Voters Want to Keep Obamacare - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 09-21-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) - Joe Jackson: Greatest Hits
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Health Center Funding Cliff via @CFAHC - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Time for Action - Time for Action - the Very Best Of
Ch. 18: Act 9: Universal Health Care, A Scary Choice - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 8-1-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: You Don't Scare Me - Chimney's Afire
Ch. 20: Act 10: There's Only One Way To Solve Health Care - @RalphNader - Air Date 8-30-14
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Arming people has a long track record of not working - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
Ch. 22: Declaring what's real is exclusionary - Dan from New York
Ch. 23: Calling some people real is dehumanizing - Dave from Canada
Ch. 24: Conservative humor is sophomoric - Larry in Fort Worth, TX
Ch. 25: Right-wing comedy - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 26: Bigotry and hate in conservative comedy - Quy Franklin
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 27: Final comments on my feast of good voicemails
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: Health Center Funding Cliff via @CFAHC
TAKE ACTION:
Get involved with Campaign for America’s Health Centers Save America’s Heath Centers Project
Follow Campaign for America's Health Centers on Twitter and Facebook
Additional Activism/Resources:
Access For All America via National Association of Community Health Centers
Sources/further reading:
"Health advocates decry lack of Miss. Medicaid expansion” via AP
"Community Health Centers To Receive $295M in ACA Grants” via California Healthline
"Federally funded health centers brace for financial loss” via USA Today
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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