Uncared For
Episodes
Fighting for Maternal Healthcare in Arkansas
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the U.S. being the most dangerous high-income nation for childbirth, postpartum is a critical time for new mothers to have continuous, uninterrup...
Why Is It So Hard To Find a Therapist?
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
About half of people with mental illness aren’t able to access treatment – and it's not just because the U.S. is facing a provider shortag...
Rural Health Care is in Crisis
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rural healthcare is in crisis. Nearly 200 rural hospitals across the country have closed in the past two decades, and many more are on the brink. In t...
Insurance Denials Feel Like a Death Sentence
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly one in five people report that they or a family member have been denied coverage for a service that their own doctor recommended. For cancer pa...
Medical Debt: Sinking Into The Abyss
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Four in ten people in the United States have medical debt. It's something many of us deal with every day – by avoiding bills, paying with our cr...
Uncared For Season 3 (Official Trailer)
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When your loved one is sick, all you want is to make the pain go away. But for far too many Americans, finding – and paying – for healthca...
Send Us A Voice Memo
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A request from the Uncared For team: Tell us about your experience with medical debt or struggles to find a therapist. Record a voice message at ...
Bonus: Showing Up for Care in 2025
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does the upcoming Trump presidency mean for the care economy and the over 105 million family caregivers in our country? In this post-election bon...
Bonus: Your Health is at Stake This Election
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode, host SuChin Pak talks with health policy expert Julie Rovner about the most pressing health care issues on the minds of...
From Partner to Caregiver
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For years, Kim Moy cared for her kids and husband, while helping to care for her parents – an experience she describes as being in a “pressure coo...
Fighting for Care
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can a family caregiver look after her loved ones and herself while navigating a broken healthcare system? Renee Hanania has been advocating for...
Caring For The Caregivers
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One in six Americans is over age 65, and that number is only going to climb in the next few decades. So how can we collectively prepare for this elder...
Stuck in the Sandwich Generation
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A big chunk of family caregivers in this country are part of the “sandwich generation” – people caring for young children and aging parents at t...
Living Long Enough to Be a Caregiver
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As someone living with HIV, Vince Crisostomo couldn’t imagine aging past thirty, let alone getting old enough to care for his parents. But when the ...
The Life of a Millennial Caregiver
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Jessica Guthrie became a caregiver at age 26, her life turned upside down. Her career, friendships, and love life went on the back burner as she ...
The Joys and the Burden of Caregiving
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Poet and artist Yosimar Reyes moved home to take care of his grandmother during the pandemic. Sometimes he cries in his car from the stress and pressu...
When Caregiving Leads to Bankruptcy
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When you’re caring for an aging parent, you want the best care possible. But what does that care cost? And who pays for it? AARP’s caregiving expe...
Uncared For Season 2 (Official Trailer)
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roughly 42 million Americans are caregivers for an older loved one. It's work that is exhausting, gratifying, and lonely all at once. In Season 2 of U...
Bonus: Why Millions Are Getting Kicked Off Medicaid
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why are millions of us – kids included – losing Medicaid coverage, oftentimes by accident? And how can we get it back? We’ll answer these quest...
Bonus: Care Denied
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Insurance plays a big role in deciding the kind of health care we receive in this country – and how much it’ll cost us. Today, we’re speaking w...
Bonus: A Year After Dobbs
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One year after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we sit down with two women working in the reproductive ...
Reimagining Birth
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our last episode, we return stateside to see how the Minneapolis-based Roots Community Birth Center is reimagining maternal care by prioritizing st...
Costa Rica: By Boat, By Horse, By Bicycle
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we head to Costa Rica, the final destination on our maternal health “world tour,” where we explore the country’s unique community-bas...
The Netherlands: Fairy Godmothers of Postpartum Care
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we travel east to the Netherlands. Here, midwives and “kraamzorgs,” or postnatal maternity aides, help parents during every step of the...
Germany: Where Parents Feel Supported
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On our first stop in the “healthcare world tour,” we travel to Germany, where midwives are a legal right, childcare is subsidized, and parents are...
Who Gets A Choice?
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is abortion care healthcare? In the United States, the answer to that question depends entirely on your ZIP code. In this episode, we’ll hear from t...
America the Outlier
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The maternal mortality rate in the United States is more than double that of our peers – and it’s especially high among Black birthing people. In ...
Uncared For (Official Trailer)
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The maternal mortality rate in the United States is more than double that of our peers. How can we get maternal care right? In this season of Uncared ...