"Health Care Is a Civil Right" with Anita Cameron and Vann Newkirk (With Friends Like These episode)

“Health Care Is a Civil Right” with Anita Cameron and Vann Newkirk is the twenty third episode of With Friends Like These, hosted by Ana Marie Cox.

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We talk to ADAPT activist Anita Cameron (@adaptanita) [2:53] about the history of the disability rights movement and its recent success raising awareness about what TrumpCare would do to Medicaid. (She also has a few pointers for reporters covering the protests on how to not infantilize the activists.) Vann Newark (@fivefifths) [23:40] joins to talk about the intersection of health policy and civil rights, both philosophically and historically. Easter egg [46:15]: A mini-op-ed on how to correctly insult Donald Trump, Jr.

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Interview with Anita Cameron
(2:53 - 22:27) 3:06 Is 131 still the correct number [of times Anita Cameron has been arrested with ADAPT]? 4:28 ADAPT’s summer of resistance 4:51 ADAPTs approach towards defeating BCRA is to create the greatest amount of civil disobedience everywhere 6:14 Her organization is messaging that the BCRA is better thought of as a Medicaid decimation than an ACA repeal 7:34 The Denver Post article on ADAPT’s activism from “The Shot Heard Around the World” to present 8:05 What should be more visible about ADAPT? 10:15 While you want the attention to be on the issue, does she agree that it is eye-catching that these activists are being thrown out of their chair? 11:15 Ana’s interview with Alice Wong 12:51 People think Medicaid and Medicaid is about “taking care” of disabled people, when it is actually about letting disabled people take care of themselves 14:05 When people think of Medicaid, they think of people as either able-bodied or not able-bodied, when really that’s not how it works 16:36 Updated version of Better Care Reconciliation Act 17:27 The new BCRA will cap Medicaid and force states to make cuts to stay beneath the cap 19:21 People on the right support pro-life movement but write off babies born with disabilities immediately under the law to allow a tax break for rich people 21:18 There are many parallels in the language and tactics ADAPT is using to the racial Civil Rights movement 21:53 If people want to know more about ADAPT and the summer of resistance, what else can they do?

Interview with Vann Newkirk
(23:40 - end) 24:11 Anita says that ADAPT took their tactics from the Civil Rights movement. There is a bigger connection than that, isn’t there? 25:13 Voting is not much of a right if you’re not able to get to the polls 25:39 Mississippi Freedom Summer 26:52 You cannot create a universal health care system if you don’t think a large portion of the population is lesser 27:46 Some politicians discuss people with disabilities in language that suggests they are a burden on society 31:33 What’s been the through line of how the black influence on public health has continued to persist? 32:40 Does he think there is a different understanding in black communities about public health? 34:07 Does he think black communities have a different understanding of disability? 38:27 In black communities, the physical fragility of the body ties into black lives matter and are more at risk in their person than white people 40:36 Does he have any idea what’s going to happen next with the new Senate healthcare bill 41:30 Fact sheet of the economic cost of opioid epidemic in 2015 46:15 The correct way to insult Donald Trump Jr. is not to compare him to someone with a brain injury
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