Today we’re talking moral injury and how it’s impacting our doctors and the healthcare we get from them. What’s moral injury? Well, you may not have heard the term before, but trust us, if you’ve been watching The Pitt, you’ve already gotten a taste! Moral injury is the trauma that happens when someone knows the right thing to do but is prevented from doing it on a regular basis thanks to factors beyond their control. Researchers coined the term to describe combat veterans experiencing PTSD because they had been forced to do things in war that ran contrary to their sense of morality, but more and more, the folks who study this phenomenon are seeing it show up in unexpected groups of people — including the folks who provide your healthcare! In this episode we talk with Dr. Diljeet Singh of Physicians for a National Health Program about their new report on how working in an unjust healthcare systems is hurting doctors, and what that tells us about why we need Medicare for All!

Plus, as always, we’ve got the latest healthcare news!

In addition to being a badass lady, Dr. Diljeet Singh is a physician, an advocate, and the president of Physicians for a National Health Program, the national organization bringing together doctors to fight for change in our healthcare system! You can read the PNHP report on moral injury among doctors here!

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When the U.S. Congress wants to get together, they don’t just check the shared Google calendar for a time when nobody’s using the House floor. Scheduling when or if a bill will ever get discussed or voted on is entirely up to the majority party. These days, that means that lawmakers outside the MAGAverse can’t do some pretty basic parts of their jobs like holding hearings. The Congressional Progressive Caucus has responded with a series of alternative “shadow” hearings on topics like healthcare – you know, life or death stuff that Republicans never seem to get around to talking about. Medicare for All got its turn in the shadows on July 22, with a hearing hosted by Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell. Today we’re getting a full report-back on the hearing from Kara Sheehan, Political Director for National Nurses United.

Plus, as always, we’ve got the latest healthcare news!

Kara Sheehan is the Political Director of National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in U.S. History!

You can see the full video of the Shadow Hearing here.

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The national political media has been in a frenzy this week about friend-of-the-pod Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate primary victory in Michigan! Sayed made Medicare for All the centerpiece of his campaign, and at the polls, over 700,000 Michiganders got behind that vision of healthcare justice.

But there’s another Medicare for All story unfolding in Michigan – the campaign to win a statewide universal healthcare system in Michigan as a stepping stone to national Medicare for All. Michigan State Representative Carrie Rheingans is leading the charge for universal healthcare in Michigan and organizing with state legislators across the country who are tired of waiting for the federal government to take action. Today she’ll tell us about her work in the Wolverine state and the 50-state strategy to introduce state-level Medicare for All bills in every state in the country.

Plus, as always, we’ve got the latest healthcare news!

Carrie Rheingans represents the 47th District of Michigan in the state legislature. She hosted a panel at Netroots with other state legislators to talk about their work introducing state-based Medicare for All legislation. You can watch it here.

You can connect with One Payer States, a coalition of organizations fighting for state-based Medicare for All here.

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