Rebecca Bloom spent decades inside employee benefits law before helping women navigate cancer, insurance, disability, work, and survival. This conversation exposes the hidden administrative labor patients inherit the second they get sick.

Women delay care while healthcare systems optimize around assumptions that no longer reflect how people live. Former healthcare investment banker Vasanta Pundarika explains how caregiving, behavioral health, women’s health, and capital incentives collide inside American healthcare.

Long COVID did not create a crisis. It exposed one. Patients without clear diagnoses lose access to care, coverage, and credibility. When medicine cannot measure your illness, the system moves on. Here is what that looks like and who pays the price

Monique Gore Massy spent 2.5 years misdiagnosed while lupus shut her body down. This episode exposes bias, diagnostic delay, and the cost of dismissing patients who “look fine,” and what happens when lived experience demands real authority.