The Remedy Podcast: NYC+ Health Uses Podcasting As Outreach

On December 4, 2024, Luigi Mangione shot and killed UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan in the early morning hours. Public reaction to the shooting was a clear sign of how fractured, dysfunctional, and inequitable health care is in the U.S. For many, Mangione was a hero for challenging a health care system with more problems than solutions.

After all, medical debt is now the number one cause of bankruptcy, with credit card debt a distant second. State medical boards are often lax on disciplining incompetent or negligent doctors, with one percent of doctors accounting for one-third of paid medical claims. Private Equity firms buy their way into health care, with the resulting focus on profits and a massive decrease in patient outcomes.

Health care needs heroes, and the warriors in white coats and scrubs include doctors, PAs, nurses, and those people we don’t see who keep the U.S. health care system from collapsing by dint of their efforts.

Health care systems, have started communicating with patients directly, through content creation, social media, podcasts, and more. The objective is to enable patients to better understand health care services that are available.