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The Truth About Healthcare (with a shot to dull the pain). Doctors are frustrated. Patients are frustrated. And none of us can get a straight answer on how to make it better … like, really make it better … honestly, we really need to make it better … because it could drive you to drink . . . Cue 43cc. A bi-weekly podcast that exposes how doctors really feel about healthcare in America, 43cc offers raw (and often irreverent) insider knowledge to help patients, and fellow healthcare…
Episodes
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Why the Midterms Matter: Live with Wendell Potter
Recorded live at the Pen & Pencil Club in Philadelphia one week before the midterms, former insurance executive Wendell Potter joins us on stage to talk about…
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What Makes a Great Story?
Stories are the heart of advocacy. They're why messages hit home and data comes to life. Chip Fleisher, Senior Editor of Steerforth Press, an imprint of…
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Is PE Losing Its Luster?
According to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, "PE has invested over $1 trillion in the US healthcare sector over the last decade, touching virtually…
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Welcome to the Channel, Durable Good
Starting Oct. 8, 2026, Moral Matters is partnering with Durable Productions to bring the Durable Good Podcast onto the Moral Matters Channel. Durable Good…
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Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class
In guiding our kids along the traditional path to professional success, are we really setting them up for failure? College is heralded as necessary for a…
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On Dignity
Conflict is inevitable, but lip service in lieu of resolution doesn't need to be. Dr. Donna Hicks, Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International…
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US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era
It took forty years of neoliberal policy choices to dig the 'profits over patients' hole the American health care system has fallen into today. How long will…
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Might Healthcare's Prescription Come from Prohibition?
Vertical integration, loss of competition, and encroachment of cartels. Sound familiar? What drove our nation to Prohibition, and why and how we emerged from…
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Special (Unedited) Episode: How I Doctor with Graham Walker
What does it sound like when two seasoned podcasters, who admire each others' work but don't pull punches, sit down for a chat? In this special crossfeed drop…
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Is Healthcare a Moral Marketplace?
What does a morally defensible, healthy, legal, commercial marketplace look like, and how can we design one for healthcare? Nobel laureate Alvin Roth…
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Is Private Equity Plundering Your Pastime?
What do golf, horses, and healthcare have in common? Private equity, baby. And whether you're a patient, a practitioner, a player - or, goodness help you, all…
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Lady Glaucomflecken Would Like a Word
Will and Kristin Flanary are internet sensations as Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken, posting hilarious and pointedly insightful videos about the physician and…
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What Defines You?
Reflection and introspection are not a daily practice for many of us. But would it be worth strengthening those skills if they helped mitigate moral injury?…
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When Companies Run the Courts
Forced arbitration is the secret justice system you've never heard of, and it's likely working against you. Brendan Ballou, former DOJ prosecutor and author of…
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Medicine and the Military: Parallel Lessons in Professionalism
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Mark Hertling spent decades leading soldiers in combat and across cultures before he transitioned to healthcare leadership when he…
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Balancing the Books and the Mission
Leadership matters. Steve Edwards, former President and CEO of CoxHealth, a $2 Billion Missouri-based health system, joins us to talk about his 30 years of…
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Sebastian Junger on What Being Near Death Taught Him About Life
Sebastian Junger is a master storyteller whose vast body of work speaks to our humanity and collectivism – loyalty, belonging, meaning, connection - and what…
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We Need to Level the Playing Field
DPC. Concierge Care. Upselling services. Are these new models the answer? Wendy and Matt break down what these new approaches mean for physicians and patients…
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Why We Revolt: One-On-One with Dr. Victor Montori
Dr. Victor Montori, Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic's KER Unit, and author of Why We Revolt, joins us to talk about his patient revolution and why…
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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson and Johnson
Investigative journalist Gardiner Harris joins us to talk about No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, an explosive expose of an organization…
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Trust and Betrayal
Our news feeds are rife with stories of betrayal, and as physicians, many of those stories feel shockingly familiar. We outline three levels of moral injury…
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Negotiate your contract!
New job? Congrats! Now go read the fine print in your contract. Carefully. Lawyer Dennis Hursh shares his decades of history and experience negotiating - or…
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Walt Bogdanich on Why Big Business and Medicine Don't Mix
Legendary investigative journalist and NYT reporter Walt Bogdanich (When McKinsey Comes to Town) joins us to talk about his recent article "How Private Equity…
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Goodbye 2025, Hello 2026!
New year, new beginnings. We covered a lot of ground last year and we're going to keep up the pressure and keep fighting the good fight. Wendy and Matt discuss…
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The Fall of Crozer Health, Part 6: Eight Months Later
Eight months ago, we followed along as Prospect Medical shuttered Crozer Health. In this episode, as promised, several of the doctors, nurses, medical…
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Teaser: The Fall of Crozer Health, Part 6
We promised to follow up on The Fall of Crozer Health and we'll drop our full episode on Monday. For anyone thinking of selling to private equity, you won't…
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Dialysis in the US: Blood, Death, and Dollars
Was dialysis the canary in medicine's coal mine of corporatization, as neoliberalism took hold in the US? Tom Mueller, journalist and author of "How to Make a…
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"Change the way you see things"
We make a lot of changes that don't make much difference. Why? In this episode, Wendy and Matt borrow the perspective of rancher and regenerative agriculture…
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"He Hit Me. He Hit a Police Officer."
In 2023, 82% of nurses had experienced at least one workplace violence incident, and nearly half were experiencing even more violence. And it's not just…
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Chris Deacon on Why We're Paying More and Getting Less
As the former head of the State Health Benefits Program within New Jersey's Department of the Treasury - one of the largest public health plans in the country…
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"The Perfect Tuba"
You read that correctly. Sometimes we have to look outside of medicine to be reminded why we love it so much. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning…
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Music and Medicine
Dr. Carlos Cardenas knows rock n' roll (and gastroenterology). A practicing physician in the Rio Grande Valley, Dr. Cardenas has been playing music for decades…
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A New Gilded Age?
Are we living in The Gilded Age of medicine? So many of the challenges we face in healthcare today are rooted in the motivations of the people holding the…
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"The Pitt": Behind the Scenes with Jacob Lentz, MD
Few medical dramas have resonated as deeply with physicians as HBO's The Pitt. Emergency physician Dr. Jacob Lentz, a medical consultant on the series, takes…
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"Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts"
Healthcare is awash in data. A typical hospital generates 50 petabytes - a million gigabytes - of it each year. But what are we measuring, exactly? Where does…
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"And then something changed..."
For over twenty years, Dr. Jeff Goldstein was part of a successful, thriving cardiology practice in central Illinois. And then he wasn't. Dr. Goldstein and his…
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Diplomatic Defiance
We talk to a lot of people. We hear a lot of stories. But for every person who shares their story publicly, there are ten more who hold off because they're…
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How to Inspire Others
Leaders can be infuriating or they can learn to be inspiring. Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist and the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at…
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Live! at the Pen & Pencil Club in Philadelphia, PA
What do healthcare and journalism have in common? (Hint: it has something to do with corporate interference and public trust.) Recorded in front of a live…
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"Dan was denied reimbursement for a lot of things."
Two years ago, Dr. Traci Hurley lost her husband, Dr. Dan Hurley, to cancer. Dan spent the last few years of his life battling his disease - and his insurance…
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Bad Company
Those in healthcare - or elsewhere - facing private equity's relentless encroachment will want to listen up. Journalist Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company…
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Part 5, The Fall of Crozer Health: "A Symptom of a Broken System"
The Fall of Crozer Health is a story steeped in grief, greed, and the needs for dignity and for protection. In the final installment of our special series, we…
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Part 4, The Fall of Crozer Health: "If You Think It's Bad Now"
Crozer was not an island, and what happened to them affects all the nearby health systems. In the fourth installment of this special series, we break down how…
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Part 3, The Fall of Crozer Health: "Betrayal. Plain and Simple."
When health systems are underwater, you might want to look up upstream to see what the trouble is. When you get there, sometimes you'll find out why those…
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Part 2, The Fall of Crozer Health: "It was surreal."
The story of private equity in healthcare is often told in numbers, spreadsheets and transcripts from bankruptcy court. But in Part 2 of our series, we hear…
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Part 1, The Fall of Crozer Health: "Today is not good."
The Crozer Chester Medical Center in PA is closing as we speak, but the fall of Delaware County's largest hospital system has been building for years. In…
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"Press 1 for Billing"
We're never more aware of the need for real human interaction than when faced with an automated Patient Portal. In this special bonus ep., Wendy and Matt share…
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The Last Human Job: Part 2
The 'social architecture' of an organization can make or break meaningful connections between patients and physicians, and physicians and the administration…
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The Last Human Job: Part 1
There's a growing sense of disconnection in our lives, and a growing number of reasons why. But instead of focusing on what's forcing us apart, we want to look…
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Healthcare Road Rage
Lately, there's been a lot of talk – and fear – about violence against healthcare executives. Less talked about is the near doubling of violent incidents…
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Harbingers: What healthcare can learn from Jan 6 and Charlottesville
What happens when people are betrayed by the system they took an oath to protect? Tim Heaphy, lead investigator for the January 6 Committee, as well as the…
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Know Your Sh*t
Clinicians have agency, but leveraging it on our own behalf means knowing sh*t and owning it. Matt and Wendy breakdown what you need to know on the practice…
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Who Kicked the Keg: February 2025
"Who Kicked the Keg?" is a bonus segment rounding up the news you need to know in the business of healthcare. Today's update is on the status of the FTC's rule…
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Will Unions Help Us Organize?
Corporatized healthcare increasingly views physicians as 'interchangeable workers' rather than the irreplaceable specialists they are. Many are turning to…
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Making a Case for Play at Work
We're losing play in medicine. Why should that matter? Because play isn't immature, idle nonsense or about just blowing off steam in the moment. It has deeper…
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Introducing... "Who Kicked the Keg?"
In our version of a stock ticker, this new segment will get you up to speed on who's gone bankrupt, who's sold out, and any other juicy healthcare market news…
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"It's All About the Money"
It's all about the money... until it isn't. Ron Howrigon, a former health insurance executive with some of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., takes…
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Fighting "The Texas Exodus"
Medical practices around McAllen, Texas have been under a journalistic microscope for years. But no one knows what's happening on the ground better than the…
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CPOM: Laws and Loopholes
Corporate practice of medicine laws are on the books, but the loopholes are widening and seemingly endless. Does legislation work? Or will CPOM forever find a…
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Murder Won't Restore Moral Balance
Brian Thompson's murder was shocking. But how much public hatred of the health insurance industry was smoldering just below the surface, was equally so. Wendy…