# Laura Packard

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Big Medicine's Monopoly Problem: Corporate Consolidation Is Costing You Everything w/ Emma Freer, American Economic Liberties Project

Giant corporate conglomerates may control your health insurance, your hospital, your doctor's office, AND your pharmacy - and it's costing American families $37,824 a year in employer coverage alone. It's time to break up Big Medicine. Emma Freer of the American Economic Liberties Project unpacks t…

Medicare and Medicaid Anniversary: Can We Protect Both Programs? w/ Margarida Jorge, Health Care for America Now

Medicare and Medicaid were created 61 years ago to protect Americans’ health and financial security. On their anniversary, we look at the future of both programs, and the growing attacks on Medicaid through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Margarida Jorge of Health Care for America Now discusses wha…

How Wellness Influencers Scam Patients w/ Jen Bordenick, Unbiased Science

While public health faces enormous cuts, the global wellness economy reached a record 6 trillion dollars, and is projected to climb to nearly ten trillion by 2029. That’s serious money. But wellness culture has a dark side - and it's costing people their health, their money, and sometimes their liv…

Corporate Health Care Crimes: Wendell Potter on the Real Waste, Fraud & Abuse #CareTalk

Corporate consolidation didn't just raise your health insurance premiums — it built a system where big insurance companies, hospitals, and PBMs profit from denying you care. Health insurance whistleblower and former Cigna VP Wendell Potter of Center for Health & Democracy joins us to expose what po…

What's Safe to Eat? Cyclospora, Salmonella & the Food Safety Crisis w/ Dr. Janet Krommes, Doctors for America

What's actually safe to eat right now? And what happens when we gut the public health agencies whose job is to catch food borne parasites before they reach your plate? Dr. Janet Krommes of Doctors for America explains two outbreaks hitting America's food supply now - the cyclospora outbreak linked …

Trump's Vaccine Order: What It Means for Your Kids w/ Dr. Didi Ray, Doctors for America

President Trump signed an executive order on August 10th, reshaping federal childhood vaccine recommendations - from limiting the vaccine schedule to splitting the MMR shot into separate visits. Pediatricians and public health experts are pushing back, with the American Academy of Pediatrics callin…

Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Health Care Cut

"They chose to give tax breaks to billionaires and… cut health care for the rest of us." — Insurance premiums went up for millions of Americans this year because of choices made by Trump and Republicans. Cancer survivor and activist Laura Packard says that's just the beginning. She warns that the b…

Big Pharma Loses Again! But Will Trump's Deals Lower Your Drug Prices? w/ Merith Basey, Patients for Affordable Drugs

Big Pharma just lost again in court - but will your drug prices actually go down? On this Care Talk, Merith Basey from Patients for Affordable Drugs joins host Laura Packard for an update on the Medicare drug price negotiation lawsuits, Trump's Most Favored Nation deals with drug manufacturers, and…

WCPT 820 Interview: Laura Packard

Richard Chew is joined by Laura Packard, progressive health care advocate, Stage 4 cancer survivor, and founder of Health Care Voices and Voices of Health Care Action. Catch "Chew's Views with Richard Chew” weekdays from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/chews-views).…

Can MediKids Fix America's Child Healthcare Crisis? w/ Dr. Tracy Tyson

Millions of American kids are losing health coverage. Could universal Medicaid for kids fix it? On this Care Talk, Dr. Tracy Tyson joins host Laura Packard to talk about about children's health care in America: how Medicaid and CHIP work today, what's driving the rise in uninsured kids, how the On…