The Drug League

About this episode

The episode discusses health anxiety, the American healthcare system, and the surreal nature of politics.

One random bump on your body can turn into a full mental spiral, and we start right there: the weird mix of health anxiety, gallows humor, and the reality that American healthcare costs can feel like a coin flip. When the “best plan” is comparing lumps and hoping you don’t need a GoFundMe for medical bills, it says a lot about the system and about what we’ve normalized. We also poke at how politics has gotten so surreal that you can say almost anything and it sounds plausible, which sets the ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Rob Lapham, Liam Layton

Topics covered

• health anxiety
• American healthcare
• politics
• mental health
• gallows humor

Keywords

• health anxiety
• healthcare costs
• mental spiral
• gallows humor
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American healthcare

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