Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Price of Privacy, HIV Infants & Major Healthcare Changes
Is privacy becoming a luxury? What's the future of healthcare in the US? And have we found a cure for HIV in infants?
By Madeleine Brand • • 52m ListenA baby born with HIV in Long Beach no longer has any trace of the disease after starting a rigorous treatment when she was only four hours old. We talk to a doctor who consulted on the case. Plus, one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act says health care as we know it will be gone in 10 years. We also find out what’s happening with the L.A. Fire Department and its recent troubles. We talk about why privacy is becoming a luxury good, and how 12 Years a Slave got one professor to look back at California’s role in the slave trade.
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In this episode
5 storiesBaby Free of HIV After Treatment
A baby born with HIV in Long Beach no longer has any trace of the disease after starting a rigorous treatment when she was only four hours old. We talk to a doctor who consulted on the case about the clinical and ethical implications.
Read the story8 minNot Your Grandfather's Health Care System
Here in California, you have until the end of the month to sign up for a health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act. Our guest says because of the new law, there will be some major changes coming in the way health care is delivered. For example, there might not be any more health insurance companies in 10 years.
Read the story10 minTrouble at the L.A. Fire Department
It’s been a bad week for the Los Angeles Fire Department. A report says the department needs nothing short of a cultural and technological overhaul to fix problems with its emergency responses. And that news came out just days after the LA Times reported on problems with the department’s hiring process.
Read the story8 minThe Price for Privacy
Each time you go online, you leave a little part of yourself behind - a trail of breadcrumbs, eagerly gobbled up by data brokers and advertisers. But there’s a bigger question at play when it comes to the idea of privacy: Is it increasingly becoming a luxury item - something only the wealthy can afford?
Read the story14 minSlavery and California
UCLA is in possession of the first edition print of Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir that describes how he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The book, of course, is the basis for this year’s Oscar-winning best picture, 12 Years a Slave .
Read the story9 min
