Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Health care: President Joe Biden wants every legal resident to have insurance
One of the major challenges facing President Joe Biden is a health care crisis — and not just COVID. The pandemic has only highlighted the shortcomings of our health care system and the deep inequities built into it.
By Madeleine Brand • • 8m ListenOne of the major challenges facing President Joe Biden is a health care crisis — and not just COVID. The pandemic has only highlighted the shortcomings of our health care system and the deep inequities built into it. Biden’s health care agenda centers on beefing up the same law he helped usher through Congress more than a decade ago as vice president — the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Angie Perrin
Producer, Press Play
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Jonathan Cohn
Senior National Correspondent at Huffington Post, where he writes about health care politics and policy; author of “The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage”