HeyJaredLaura Packard
Progressive health care advocate, cancer survivor & founder of Health Care Voices and Voices of Health Care Action, host CareTalk Mondays live at 4:30pm ET, small biz owner PowerThru LLC
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 21, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
Latest issues
Can MediKids Fix America's Child Healthcare Crisis? #CareTalk (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Millions of American kids are losing health coverage. Could universal Medicaid for kids fix it? On Care Talk, joins me to talk about about children’s health care in America: how Medicaid and CHIP work today, what’s driving the rise in uninsured kids, how the One Big Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid cuts could affect children, and Senator Andy Kim’s bold new MediKids proposal for universal healthcare coverage from birth to age 26.Also Louise Norris of healthinsurance.org & <
Big Pharma Lawsuits Fail! But Will Trump's Deals Help? #CareTalk (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Big Pharma just lost again in court - but will your drug prices actually go down? On Care Talk, Merith Basey of Patients for Affordable Drugs joins me with an update on the Medicare drug price negotiation lawsuits, Trump’s Most Favored Nation secret deals with drug manufacturers, and what it all means for patients.Also Louise Norris of healthinsurance.org and of answer your health insurance questions on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid,
Doctors vs. Insurance Companies: Why We Must Ban Prior Authorization #CareTalk (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Prior authorization is not “ensuring evidence-based care.” It’s health insurance companies paying themselves to deny your care. On Care Talk, authors of the new Ban Prior Authorization report - & of - join me to explain how we went from a narrow tool to 99,290 clinicians’ worth of paperwork, why AI is making denials worse, and why 71% of voters want a ban.Also Louise Norris of healthinsurance.org<s
Trump's Vaccine Order: What It Means for Your Kids #CareTalk (opens the original)
Read excerpt
President Trump signed an executive order on August 10th, reshaping federal childhood vaccine recommendations — from limiting the vaccine schedule to splitting the MMR shot into separate visits. Pediatricians and public health experts are pushing back, with the American Academy of Pediatrics calling the measles, mumps, and rubella recommendation “dangerous.”, preventative medicine physician and leader at Doctors for America, separates fact from fear in this #CareTalk episode with myself of Healt
What's Safe to Eat? Cyclospora, Salmonella & the Food Safety Crisis #CareTalk (opens the original)
Read excerpt
What’s actually safe to eat right now? And what happens when we gut the public health agencies whose job is to catch food borne parasites before they reach your plate? of Doctors for America explains two outbreaks hitting America’s food supply now - the cyclospora outbreak linked to lettuce, and the salmonella outbreak tied to jalapeños - and the bigger story behind them in this #CareTalk episode with myself of Health Care Voices.Also Diane Archer of Just Care answers your health insurance quest
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.