Tune in to “Health Action” with co-host Mark Hannay
on WBAI/Pacifica Radio in NYC: 99.5 FM or www.wbai.org
Production of this program ended in Summer 2018.
Past programs are available and can be streamed or downloaded via WBAI’s archives.
PAST PROGRAMS:
July 18, 2018:
“Making Medicines Affordable and Accessible in the U.S. and Internationally”
Guest: Justin Mendoza, Acceess to Medicines Organizer, Public Citizen
“Empowering New York Consumers and Patients as Hospitals Consolidate”
Guests: Lois Uttley, Director, and Emma Chassen, Project Co-Author, MergerWatch
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“Six-Month Check-Up on Health Care and the New Tax Cut Law”
Guest: Frank Clemente, Executive Director, Americans for Tax Fairness
“New York City’s New Neighborhood Health Initiatives”
Guests: Rev, Terry Troia, Executive Director, Project Hospitality; Ana Fisyak, Deputy Director, Rockaway Waterfront Alliance
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June 28, 2018:
“Annual LGBT Pride Health Special”
Guests: Wendy Stark, President and CEO, Callen-Lorde Health Center; Katie Keith, Coordinator, Out to Enroll
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June 21, 2018:
“Washington Update on Health Care and Social Program Legislation”
Guests: Margarida Jorge (Health Care for America Now), and Ron Deutsch (Fiscal Policy Institute)
“Consumers Rights’ to Challenge Health Insurance Premium Rate Request Increases”
Guest: Amanda Dunker, Policy Analyst, Community Service Society of NY
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July 14, 2018:
“The Future of Health Care in the U.S. Under Capitalism”
Guest: Howard Waitzkin, MD, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of New Mexico; Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois
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June 7, 2018:
“Health Issues in the New York City 2018-19 Budget Negotiations”
Guests: Anthony Feliciano, Executive Director, Commission on the Public’s Health System in NYC; Winn Periyasamy, Policy Analyst, FPWA
“The Poor People’s Campaign Addresses Social Justice and Health Care”
Guests: Rev. Emily McNeill, Executive Director, New York Labor-Religion Coalition; Rev. Claudia de la Cruz, Coordinator, New York City Poor People’s Campaign
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May 16, 2018, 10 p.m. (Note special time):
“The Documentary ‘The Time is Now’ About Universal Health Care in the U.S.”
Guests: Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg (film makers)
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April 19, 2018:
“Efforts to Move Toward Universal Health Care in New York”
Guests: Katie Robbins, Executive Director, and Ursala Rozum, Upstate Coordinator, Campaign for New York Health
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April 12, 2018:
“Health Care Issues Before the New York State Legislature in 2018”
Guest: Richard Gottfried, Chair, Health Committee, New York State Assembly
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April 5, 2018:
“The Sale of Non-Profit FidelisCare to For-Profit Centene in New York”
Guests: Charles Bell, Programs Director, Consumers Union; and Lara Kassel, Coordinator, Medicaid Matters New York
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March 29, 2018:
“Trump Administration Moves to Radically Change Medicaid”
Guest: Leo Cuello, Director of Health Policy, National Health Law Program
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March 22, 2018:
“Health Care Issues in This Year’s New York State Budget Negotiations”
Guest: Ben Anderson, Director of Health Policy, Children’s Defense Fund of NY
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March 15, 2018:
“Doctors Respond to Gun Violence”
Guests: Nina Agarwal, Doctors for America; and Jeff Ostreicher, American Academy of Pediatrics, NY Chapter
“Recent Congressional and Trump Administration Moves on Health Care”
Guest: Ethan Rome, Co-Executive Director, Health Care for America Now
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February 1, 2018:
“Problems with Funding Hospital Charity Care in New York State”
Guest: Carrie Tracy, Deputy Director for Health Programs, Community Service Society of NY
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January 25, 2018:
“Health Care Issues in the Current Federal Government Shutdown Fight”
Guests: Max Hadler, Health Policy Specialist, NY Immigration Coalition; and Ben Anderson, Health Policy Director, Children’s Defense Fund of NY
“Update on New York City’s ‘Take Care 2020’ Program”
Guest: Patrick Germain, Executive Director for Policy and Planning, NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene
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January 11, 2018:
“Health Care Issues Facing Congress as it Reconvenes for 2018”
Guests: Margarida Jorge, Co-Executive Director, Health Care for America Now; and Mary Clark, Southern Tier Regional Director, Citizen Action of New York
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January 4, 2018
“New York’s New Paid Family Leave Program Starts Up”
Guests: Donna Dolan, Executive Director, and Eric Williams, Campaigns Director, New York Paid Leave Coalition