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cohost @deathpanel_ | coauthor Health Communism (Verso); All Care For All People (forthcoming Haymarket) | health, debility, class struggle & the state

Minneapolis, MN
Joined August 2008
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Excited to announce our next two books will be through @haymarketbooks: first, All Care for All People, on how to end the healthcare crisis and defeat ascendant health fascism; next, Stay Alive Another Week, a @DeathPanel_ reader
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Now unlocked: we’re joined by @DaShaunLH to discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule last month and how the media dogpile, from Joe Rogan to Fox News and beyond, proved our point on.soundcloud.com/cqj4RmY5X6…
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Ian Hacking: “The normal was one of a pair. Its opposite was the pathological and for a short time its domain was chiefly medical. Then it moved into the sphere of - almost everything. People, behaviour, states of affairs, diplomatic relations, molecules: all these may be normal
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needless to say, the same applies in Britain. between workers in the NHS and social care systems (as well as the people who rely on them to live) the base for a mass working class health politics is massive
more than 1 in 4 US adults is disabled. add to that everyone whose life is shaped by illness, care & the capitalist healthcare system. that's an enormous potential base for working-class politics, ample ground to build a powerful left. we should probably do something with that
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love when i think “isn’t there a good mariame kaba quote about this” and go looking for it only to confirm that yes there is. she said it to me. on an episode of @DeathPanel_
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exactly, MK made this point really well on @DeathPanel_ back in 2023 talking about how if we proposed libraries today it would be considered an unattainable, utopian pipe dream
Cause eventually EVERYTHING gets labeled as “unrealistic.” Even things we have either already previously done or are CURRENTLY DOING smaller scale.
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Cause eventually EVERYTHING gets labeled as “unrealistic.” Even things we have either already previously done or are CURRENTLY DOING smaller scale.
so much of what passes as political pragmatism is just a commitment to cementing the limits of the current system as the limits of your own imagination. “realism” is a flattering way to explain away a deep psychological attachment to the status quo
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In Medicare, public program pays for care—in Medicare Advantage, public pays private insurer to manage care. Nebraska report shows 94% experience care delays from these plans. Medicare for All can’t mean Medicare Advantage for All—abolish private insurance nebraskahospitals.org/sites/…
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88% of hospitals say Medicare Advantage contributes to healthcare worker burn out, 96% say the plans are so confusing that beneficiaries don’t understand them, 94% say it risks the hospital These plans have only taken over more of the market each year—— it has to stop
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so much of what passes as political pragmatism is just a commitment to cementing the limits of the current system as the limits of your own imagination. “realism” is a flattering way to explain away a deep psychological attachment to the status quo
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more than 1 in 4 US adults is disabled. add to that everyone whose life is shaped by illness, care & the capitalist healthcare system. that's an enormous potential base for working-class politics, ample ground to build a powerful left. we should probably do something with that
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This has been talked about a lot on the podcast Death Panel and idk if I can remember anyone else talking about it. The government is going to keep taking away more and more healthcare, starting with groups everyone hates. That's why we've been seeing so much ableist propaganda.
I’m sorry but I’m begging people talk about this and speak up. So many people (me included) will lose their medical insurance and will be unable to pay for their specialist appointments or expensive life saving medication. People will die because of this.
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SNAP update: Another cut from the Republican reconciliation law takes effect today, cutting the federal match for SNAP administrative costs from 50% to 25%. Every state now gets half as many federal dollars to ensure SNAP gets to eligible families on time & in the right amount.
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I urge everyone to read 'Health Communism'
You pay taxes to cover welfare for people who just choose not to work. That’s why I launched a welfare-to-work requirement. If you’re young, healthy, and get government assistance, you should work, go to school, or volunteer.
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If only Carol read Health Communism by @realLandsEnd
For some reason I found the movie about the woman who develops an illness everyone including doctors dismiss until she finds help from people who just want to take advantage of her super relevant. Listen to this one!
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my diatribe on data centers and AI is now unlocked
In today’s episode, we walk through what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral panic”—now unlocked on.soundcloud.com/J2547t8ONj…
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