How The Coronavirus Exposes Faults in Our Healthcare System; NYC’s Tech Sector’s Gifts (& Costs)
Coming up on today’s show:
Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at Community Service Society, co-founder of Healthcare for All New York, talks about how the coronavirus crisis highlights the disparity of healthcare coverage in this country, and the government is up to the task of protecting, and paying for coronavirus testing and treatment for all Americans.
Sharon Zukin, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center and the author of The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy (Oxford University Press, 2020), talks about how New York’s economy has boomed since the Great Recession its booming tech sector — and the costs