Sam and Emma are joined by ProPublica reporters J. David McSwane & Ryan Gabrielson to discuss their recent piece “A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank, and an Airline”. David and Ryan break down their new bombshell reporting in ProPublica about Liberty HealthShare, a healthcare-sharing ministry that, under the auspices of providing health services as a religiously affiliated non-profit, avoided almost all regulatory scrutiny while committing massive amounts of fraud.
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I want to Welcome to the program Propublica reporters J. David McSwane and Ryan Gabrielson. They have written a piece in Pro Publica a Christian Health non-profit, saddled thousands with debt as it built a family Empire including a pot farm, a bank, and an airline. That is quite a title for a piece. guys thanks so much for joining us. David, let's start with you. Can you just explain I've seen ads for these in the past many times and have wondered what is going on here? I don't even know what they're called necessarily. These Christians like this one you did a story about Liberty Health share. but it is like a sharing Ministry. or a sort of Christian Health sort of insurance. like what are these things called? well, that's pretty close. So if you saw ads you knew more than I did before Ryan called me to talk about this thing that he was looking at. so Healthcare sharing Ministries are. I listen to a lot of right-wing radio. I gotta say so that's why. I yeah yeah I don't I don't have time for that. But Healthcare sharing Ministries are essentially these non-profits that are unregulated that look and act like insurance. So instead of paying a premium each month to a corporation for insurance, you give money to this non-profit and you expect that if you break your leg or you get sick, those bills will be paid. and it's really sort of taken from a tradition in the Mennonite and Amish communities of you know people who didn't really want to be involved in traditional insurance. And they just you know agreed we are all Christians. We'll take care of each other. And you know we found sort of starting really ramping up in the 80s you know this particular family in Canton Ohio had found a way to commoditize it.
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Executive Board member bargaining co-chair of the Oakland Education Association and an Elementary School teacher in the Oakland school system Vilma Serrano joins the program. The weeks-long strike by Oakland teachers has concluded, but its impact continues to reverberate among education leaders in the Bay Area and beyond. The standoff between the Oakland Education Association and the school district resulted in a three-year contract that includes a historic raise for all full-time teachers and stipends for specialty educators and staff.
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I want to Welcome to the program Vilma Serrano. She's an Executive Board member bargaining co-chair of the Oakland Education Association and an Elementary School teacher in the Oakland school system. Vilma is welcome to the program. Thank you. three thousand striking Public School Educators have been striking for I think like what oh it's seven days. seven days. And what tells us about what brought you guys to the picket lines. Well you know the job has really changed. I mean teaching has always been hard since before covid and I think covid really exposed how vulnerable our systems are in ways that became all the more apparent to everyone who wasn't working in the school system. And I think we also realized how crucial it is to really sustain and really improve it right? We couldn't really continue with the system we've had. so we really thought that this was an important campaign to really remind people about the kinds of schools that we have an opportunity to really rebuild. And so you know we had seven months of very fruitless negotiations. Very frustrating for everyone. And we really were just stuck. We knew that this was where we had filed for unfair labor practice charges from the district because of the lack of preparedness. Just the lack of seriousness around bargaining. And so that's what ended up that's why we ended up on the line you know? and we were really trying to work really hard trying to avert the strike. We knew that it could have been really hard on our members. But we realized that this was the next step. We had to do it. and we had to remind ourselves too of our own commitment to really improving our schools. And so that's why we were on the line. and you know what? It was absolutely worth it. We needed to be on the line and remind ourselves of our own power.
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