This week on CounterSpin Podcast: Janine Jackson: Corporate news media obscure it, almost like it’s their job, but we still understand that laws and policies land on differently situated people differently. I can believe that there are millionaire congressmembers who genuinely 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒 pushing through a sickness, or ignoring a health concern, because they can’t afford the doctor visit…people who haven’t even ever 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 for an appointment, or struggled to fit it around a work schedule. But that’s the reality of millions of us, most of us.

So current corporate media talking about how universal care, or Medicare for All, is, as Forbes magazine puts it, “a brand, not a plan”? Media who elitesplain that “oh, you don’t want to live in Canada, just trust me on that”?  𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫, 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐮𝐬.

We’ll talk about Medicare for All—and the things you’re likely to read about it—with Abdullah Shihipar, public health researcher and writer, from the Brown University School of Public Health.