This is episode 50, “Public Option, Unions, Obligation, Part 1.“
My guest, James McGee, has spent his career in and around collectively bargained benefit plans, especially health care plans. He has primarily worked on union benefit plans, which are technically known as Taft-Hartley plans.
Mr. McGee recently retired after 17 years working for the Transit Employees' Health & Welfare Fund as its Executive Director. The Fund provides the health care benefits for the active and retired members of ATU Local 689 employed by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). In this role, he become acutely aware of the deficiencies of our current health care system and began to take an active role in organizations advocating for reform, especially a single-payer solution.
Mr. McGee is on the Steering Committee of the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer, the Montgomery County Chapter of Healthcare-NOW, and on the Board of Directors of Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN).
My interview with Mr. McGee covers two episodes 50 and 51. This episode discusses problems with the public option. Part 2, available on March 1st, discusses how unions would benefit from Medicare for All and why health care is an obligation.
Do not miss this episode as Mr. McGee explains why the public option is bad for the public.
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The Free Market Cannot Solve Every Problem
The Security Threat of Our Current Healthcare System
Why We Need Single-Payer Medicare for All in the United States
The Illogic and Fraud of Medicare Advantage Plans
Medicare: A Complicated Mess
The American Healthcare Mess
Puerto Rico’s History of Single-Payer
Why Medicare For All Is Cool!
Electronic Health Records and Interchangeable Data
Little Things That Can Make a Difference
A Catastrophic Ruling: The Overturning of Guaranteed Abortion Access
Gun Violence and Public Health in the U.S.
Public Health, Single-Payer and the American Public Health Association
The Healthcare Skin-in-the-Game Myth
Achieving the Cancer Moonshot in 10 Years
Jeffrey Sachs Testimony from the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Medicare for All
Highlights from the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Medicare for All
Some Survey Results on Why Having Health Insurance Doesn’t Mean Squat
Well-Known and Lesser-Known Problems With Our Healthcare System
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