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Ep68: Understanding the Interplay of Healthcare & Politics in America- w/ Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
“Politics are like a kaleidoscope. If you don't like where you are, just keep turning it.”
This week we are delighted to welcome physician, epidemiologist, author, and Director of Wayne County's Department of Health, Abdul El-Sayed.
He shares his opinion that our healthcare system is broken because our politics is broken.
The solution? Collective action, universal healthcare and persistent dialogue.
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We spoke about the corrosive influence of monetizing healthcare for profit, the concept of an epidemic of insecurity as a root cause of our inability to empathize with each other, the need to use politics as a constructive and healing force, and how we can tackle many of the root causes of our healthcare problems through ground level collaboration.
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