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Welcome to the August edition of Prescription for Healthcare – a monthly segment dedicated to increasing the understanding of healthcare issues for the WFHB listening community through interviews with and commentary from medical and community experts.
Our guest today is Erin Bammann, a fourth-year at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Bammann was the driving force behind the Bloomington campus group, Students for a National Health Program or SNaHP. Before medical school, Erin, who is bilingual in Spanish, worked at the Volunteers in Medicine clinic in Bloomington. She prepares to apply for internal medicine residency programs with an interest in primary care and geriatrics.
She discussed how she became interested in Medicare for All.
“It really started for me when I was volunteering at Volunteers in Medicine in Bloomington,” said Bammann. “I just saw the extent to which people from a varying set of backgrounds would come through without insurance.”
She says that routinely seeing people who were unable to access the care and medicine they needed was really striking. It left enough of an impact that she pondered how society could do a better job at providing healthcare to the public.
Erin says she believes many of her peers in school are open to the idea of universal healthcare.
“People were really excited about it, and medical students were incredibly grateful to have an opportunity to learn more about the healthcare system,” said Bammann.
Hear more in today’s edition of Prescription for Healthcare – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and Medicare for All Indiana. Prescription for Healthcare airs on the second Thursday of each month on the WFHB Local News. It’s available online and wherever you find your podcasts.
