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Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid

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Ugandan soldier receiving a Covid vaccination in Somalia (photo: Amisom)

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Ugandan soldier receiving a Covid vaccination in Somalia (photo: Amisom)

(photo: African Union)

This week on CounterSpin: Some of the worst work that corporate news media do is convince us that simple things are actually, if you just ignore the role of power, more complicated than you could hope to understand. So, yes, Covid is killing millions of people, and yes, there are tests and treatments and vaccines for it, and yes, many countries in need of them—but no, we can't put those things together, for reasons that you shouldn't worry your head over. There are in fact people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving vaccines…. A story being ugly doesn't mean it isn't understandable. We talk about it with Lori Wallach, executive director of the group Rethink Trade.

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Doctors treating Covid patient.

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At the same time, we are to understand that insurance companies exist to protect us from exorbitant expenses when we're faced with healthcare crises. You might be mad paying in when you're healthy, but oh boy just wait til you're sick.  So: Covid-19. Could hardly be a bigger public healthcare crisis—and where are insurance companies? Shouldn't this be their shining hour? And if not—can we please revisit their purpose in our lives? We talk about insurance in a pandemic with physician and advocate Steffie Woolhandler.

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