There are in fact people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving vaccines…. We talk about it with Lori Wallach, executive director of the group Rethink Trade. Transcript: ‘A Handful of Billionaire Companies Have Monopoly Control Over Life-Saving Medicines’At the same time, we are to understand that insurance companies exist to protect us from exorbitant expenses when we’re faced with healthcare crises. Could hardly be a bigger public healthcare crisis—and where are insurance companies? We talk about insurance in a pandemic with physician and advocate Steffie Woolhandler.