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.
Public Option, Unions, Obligation, Part 2
A Local Resolution Supporting Medicare For All
Covid and Racial Inequities
The U.S. Pandemic Response and How to Improve It
Medicaid Is Helpful; Medicare for All Would Be Better
Falling Back in Love With Clinical Practice
Why We Need the Medicare for All Act
Disaster Preparedness and COVID-19
State Level Medicare for All: Is It Possible?
Racism, Health Care, and Medicare for All
Join the Fight
How Medicare Integrated Hospitals
Health Inequality and Physical Structure
A Living Wage Home Cleaning Company and COVID-19
We don’t have a health care system in the United States
Racial Inequities: COVID-19 has essentially ripped the cover off of some of the deepest cracks in our current healthcare system
An Ongoing Issue: Drug Prices and Supplies Before and During the Pandemic
Patients Are Just Pawns in the Game
If There's an Argument for Medicare for All That Ought to Convince Everyone, It's This Epidemic
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