This is episode 14, “Health Care in Rural America,”
My guest, Dina van der Zalm, discusses health care problems faced by rural Americans.
Ms. van der Zahm has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from New York University. After a brief stint with corporate America, she joined the Peace Corps. She worked in Lanzhou, China teaching English for two years on the edge of the Gobi Desert. When she completed her Peace Corps service, she moved to Missouri where sheattended the University of Missouri and received her MSW and Masters of Public Health in 2016.
She has been working as a Health Care Organizer at the Missouri Rural Crisis Center for three years.
Do not miss episode 14 as it discusses the unique and common problems that rural Americans have obtaining and affording health care.
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Plain Economics: The Main Problem With Rural Health Care
Retrospective Denials
Racial Inequities in Health Care
Stop Using Health Insurance Industry Language
Surprise Medical Bills
Insurance Companies Are Practicing Medicine, And They Are Doing It in a Way That If a Doctor Did That, They Would Absolutely Lose Their License
Why Drug Prices Are So Expensive in the United States
The Average Family Is Going to Get Much More and Pay Much Less
Mothers for Medicare for All – Part 2
Mothers for Medicare for All - Part 1
Dealing with HIV
How Do We Meet the Needs of People Who Need Mental Health Services? Poorly!
We Can’t Truly Help People in This For-Profit System
Every Shift I Would See Patients Struggling for Their Care
A Different Kind of Going Broke
A Revelation
We’ll Win by Building a Grassroots Movement
When You’ve Got a For-Profit System, True Care Goes Out the Window
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