Bitchin’ Music to Navigate the Health Care Bureaucracy to

Kelsey H.
Kelsey H.
Nov 4 · 2 min read

Do you need some jams to rage to while you call around for the best rate on short arm casts, browse 34 unique but similarly unaffordable state health care plan options, scan 11 supporting document types to apply for medical bill financial assistance programs, or ride the bus across town to the pharmacy that honors your prescription coupons? Or maybe you need a tune to scream to while you unfold a medical bill totaling amounts that feel arbitrary and cruel? The U.S. health care system can be tiring, maddening, financially ruining, dehumanizing, scarring, disempowering, traumatizing, lethal. When you find yourself feeling like the system supposed to keep you alive is ambivalent to whether you continue living, I recommend:

Diagram Brother’s “My Bad Chest Feels Better Now” from Some Marvels Of Modern Science (New Hormones, 1981)

White Fence’s “Who Feels Right” from White Fence (Woodsist, Make a Mess, 2010)

Warm Bodies’ “I Need a Doctor” from Warm Bodies (Lumpy, 2018)

Bush Tetra’s “Who’s Gonna Pay” from Boom In The Night (Original Studio Recordings 1980–1983) (ROIR, 1995)

Negative Scanner’s “Health Insurance” from Nose Picker (Trouble In Mind Records, 2018)

Palberta’s “Stayin’ Alive” from Bye Bye Berta (Wharf Cat Records, 2017)

daddy’s boy’s “outcome” from punk discipline (self-release demos, 2019)

The U.S. health care system hurts, bitchin’ music can help. Full playlist HERE.

Additional leads on how to stay alive here.

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Kelsey H.

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