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DP x S23: Health and Capital (Session 1)

Sep 18, 2023
Artie and Beatrice host an introductory session discussing the intersection of healthcare, disability, and left politics. They challenge the idea of personal responsibility for health, explore how capital shapes the healthcare system, and advocate for publicly managed healthcare and the abolition of the private health insurance industry.
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  • The political economy of health needs a complete reshaping to prioritize care for all people and challenge oppressive and extractive systems.
  • Healthcare should be seen as a collective struggle, requiring a reshaping of the entire political economy, rather than superficial reforms.

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Overview of the Podcast Episode

In this podcast episode, the hosts discuss a series of sessions focused on the political economy of health and disability that they organized for the Socialism Conference. These sessions cover various topics, including health and capital, how capitalism kills and COVID-19, resisting carceral sanism, decolonial disability politics, and state austerity and the politics of healthcare. The hosts emphasize that healthcare is not separate from other social issues, and they argue that the capitalist approach to healthcare is fundamentally flawed. They call for a complete reshaping of the political economy of health to prioritize care for all people, challenging the systems of oppression and extractive cruelty embedded in the current healthcare system.

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