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Unemployed, Uninsured and Falling Through the Cracks

Unemployed, Uninsured and Falling Through the Cracks

FromPrognosis: Losing it


Unemployed, Uninsured and Falling Through the Cracks

FromPrognosis: Losing it

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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Jul 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As a second Coronavirus wave threatens America, a wave of job losses since the disease first hit has left millions without health insurance. Reade Pickert explains that in other developed economies, the newly unemployed could rely on systems of universal health care. In America, they’ve had to navigate a bewildering menu of options to figure out if they have access to a patched-together safety net.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Jul 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

For much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. No matter how much the number on the scale drops begins to go down, chances are that the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says. But when it comes to weight, the facts just don’t seem to matter. Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, looks at how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a better way forward.