Episode 2 of the IWALLK Podcast!
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THE IWALLK PODCAST
EPISODE 2 - LIFE IN THE SECOND CLASS
AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEX WALL
PART 1
AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEX WALL
PART 1
Raw Intro...
Hello! And, welcome to the IWALLK Podcast. I am your host Alex Wall. This program is being broadcast on February 26, 2017. This is Episode 2, titled: "Life in the Second Class - An Interview with Alex Wall - Part 1."
Well, I guess any very modest beginning can claim one like on Facebook. And, yes, that was the reaction to Episode 1 which I published yesterday. It's okay though. The birth of something great is always attended by a little humility, or sometimes a lot. Ha, ha!
Today, as the title implies, will be Part 1 of 3 episodes covering an interview and wide-ranging discussion I had with a University of Southern Maine graduate seminar group who was interested to hear about my experience of having a medical emergency - namely a heart attack - and having to deal with the health care system, with no insurance.
The "Life in the Second Class" part of the title is a continuation of a recent series of posts which started at the IWALLK.blogspot.com blog. You can check that out by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and looking through the "Blog Archives" of the last couple of months.
I did not, and still do not have health insurance. I am still falling through the crack the our governor, Paul LePage, openned up for poor, single, childless males in the state of Maine, by rejecting federal funds to expand Medicaid in Maine when the Affordable Care Act was first being adopted. He did this for purely ideological reasons. In this talk, we discuss this and speculate as to why - based on such ideological stances - society (or maybe only one hald society) so often rejects logical and egalitarian answers in preference of more complicated ones.
Interview and Discussion...
[Sorry, there is no transcript for the talk yet]
Raw Outro...
There you have it! Part 1 of the interview and discussion I had recently with a group of graduate students from the University of Southern Maine. Stay tuned for Part 2, which might also get published this week if I can edit the program before next weekend. I wanted to give a reminder that your donations are all that keeps these podcasts alive and currently it is my only source of income. So, if you can afford to send a few dollars my way by clicking the PayPal Donate button it would be most humbly appreciated. Even if you can't make a contribution, please click follow, click the like button, do share these posts with friends and family!
For now, thank you so much for joining me here today on the IWALLK Podcast.
Until next time... Try to wear your soul on the outside!
Hello! And, welcome to the IWALLK Podcast. I am your host Alex Wall. This program is being broadcast on February 26, 2017. This is Episode 2, titled: "Life in the Second Class - An Interview with Alex Wall - Part 1."
Well, I guess any very modest beginning can claim one like on Facebook. And, yes, that was the reaction to Episode 1 which I published yesterday. It's okay though. The birth of something great is always attended by a little humility, or sometimes a lot. Ha, ha!
Today, as the title implies, will be Part 1 of 3 episodes covering an interview and wide-ranging discussion I had with a University of Southern Maine graduate seminar group who was interested to hear about my experience of having a medical emergency - namely a heart attack - and having to deal with the health care system, with no insurance.
The "Life in the Second Class" part of the title is a continuation of a recent series of posts which started at the IWALLK.blogspot.com blog. You can check that out by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and looking through the "Blog Archives" of the last couple of months.
I did not, and still do not have health insurance. I am still falling through the crack the our governor, Paul LePage, openned up for poor, single, childless males in the state of Maine, by rejecting federal funds to expand Medicaid in Maine when the Affordable Care Act was first being adopted. He did this for purely ideological reasons. In this talk, we discuss this and speculate as to why - based on such ideological stances - society (or maybe only one hald society) so often rejects logical and egalitarian answers in preference of more complicated ones.
In this talk I try to answer the following questions...
Is the health care system purposefully complex, discouraging poor people from obtaining services?
Why did I lose MaineCare (which is Maine's version of Medicaid)?
Is there a bias against the uninsured?
How was I treated or mistreated during my recent medical procedures?
Did I ever try to get ObamaCare (aka, the Affordable Care Act), and why couldn't I?
So, now with no further adieu, let's get on with today's episode...
Interview and Discussion...
[Sorry, there is no transcript for the talk yet]
Raw Outro...
There you have it! Part 1 of the interview and discussion I had recently with a group of graduate students from the University of Southern Maine. Stay tuned for Part 2, which might also get published this week if I can edit the program before next weekend. I wanted to give a reminder that your donations are all that keeps these podcasts alive and currently it is my only source of income. So, if you can afford to send a few dollars my way by clicking the PayPal Donate button it would be most humbly appreciated. Even if you can't make a contribution, please click follow, click the like button, do share these posts with friends and family!
For now, thank you so much for joining me here today on the IWALLK Podcast.
Until next time... Try to wear your soul on the outside!
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