An Arm and a Leg
By An Arm and a Leg
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Subscribers: 701
Reviews: 9
Episodes: 135
Andrew Fox
Jan 10, 2023
fantastic idea for a podcast and some really great content but there is like one real episode every few months.
Linda
Dec 24, 2020
This is a podcast that all Americans should listen to. Lots of great info about how to navigate our healthcare system, whether you have insurance or not. And yet presented in a way that makes it fun to listen to.
Jul 4, 2020
Jul 5, 2019
arewenotmen
Jun 15, 2019
Love this show! Makes a difficult topic approachable and even darkly funny and entertaining. Love the host!
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Revisiting ‘Christmas In July’
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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New lessons from the fight for charity care
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Fight health insurance — with help from AI
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Can racism make you sick?
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Special Feature: A Beloved Nursing Home, from “To See Each Other”
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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“Baby steps” in the fight against facility fees
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Don’t get “bullied” into paying what you don’t owe
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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We want to see your hospital bills
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Coming soon: your stories on facility fees
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Meet the Middleman’s Middleman
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Staying on Medicaid seems tougher than it should be
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May 23, 2024 |
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We’re digging into “facility fees.” We need your help.
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May 02, 2024 |
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The Hack
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Son of Medicare: Attack of the Machines
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The Medicare Episode
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Wait, is insulin cheaper now?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Self defense 101: Keeping your cool while you fight
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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One last tip before 2024
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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When hospitals sue patients (part 2)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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When hospitals sue patients (part 1)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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To get health insurance, this couple made a movie
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medical debt
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists - Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (The Glaucomfleckens)”
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 2)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 1)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Something's coming, something good.
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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How to Get a Surprise Bill on Your Way to the Hospital
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Wait, what’s a PBM (and how do they work)?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Credit Card, Please
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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A ‘payday loan’ from a health care behemoth
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May 25, 2023 |
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Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster
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May 03, 2023 |
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A $229,000 medical bill goes to court
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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A doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Lessons from “wrestling with a giant”
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The bill looked like BS. So she took it to small claims court.
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Can They Freaking Do That?!? (2023 Edition)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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2022 in Review
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Like pulling teeth.
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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The best video about health insurance, ever
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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A listener asks: Could NOT having insurance be a better deal?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Quick update from Arm and a Leg HQ
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Medical-bill "Negotiation Lab"
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Genetic Testing ‘Bait-and-Switch’
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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These docs are trying to kick private equity out of their ER
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Credit Where It’s Due
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May 26, 2022 |
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“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Sick Note, pt. 2: Dang
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Sick Note: Dan has COVID. (He's fine, but ...)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Fighting for the Right to Help
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Swimming with sharks
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Introducing: Half Vaxxed
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Introducing: Last Day
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Meet your new rights under the No Surprises Act
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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2022 update: How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test (feat. Sarah Kliff)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Our Year in Review, with members of the Arm and a Leg team
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Why rapid COVID tests are so freaking expensive
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Fighting with health insurance is easy (for Jacqueline Fox)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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How to avoid the crappiest health insurance.
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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The Insurance Warrior takes on a $61B Company
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Meet the Insurance Warrior
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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We spend 12 million hours a week on the phone with health insurance
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Wait, that was legal until now?!?
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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"We just kept right on pushing"
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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The wild backstory of a tiny but crucial Obamacare provision (ft. David Axelrod)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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A legendary lawyer sued hospitals for price-gouging their patients. And got his butt handed to him.
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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We’re back! Starting Aug 19. And we’ve got some doozies for you.
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Badass volunteers help Jared level up, in the fight to crush medical debt
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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A whole book about fighting effed-up medical bills? Yes, please.
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Want to write a killer letter to insurance? Meet Jeannine.
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Mini-episode: One guy skirts a medical-bill trap, and shares the secret.
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May 19, 2021 |
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Why picking the right insurance is so hard (bonus/encore)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Programming note: We're working on some cool new stuff.
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Who's been trying to cash in on COVID vaccinations? (And how did racism help them out?)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Revisiting insulin, as relevant (and expensive) as ever
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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A legal strategy for erasing billions in medical debt— that works—from a 60-second video.
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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A former "bad guy" lawyer shows us how the dark machinery works. And our rights.
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Mini-episode: Two small doses of good news
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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A 21st-century Christmas Carol: How one Scrooge became a health-care whistleblower
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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From our reporter's notebook: What we learned in 2020, and what's ahead, with T.K. Dutes
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Fight! My family tries to pick health insurance for next year. COVID makes it harder.
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Andy Slavitt gives us a COVID check-in from 40,000 feet
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test: with Sarah Kliff of the New York Times
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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How to Keep Cool in a Tough Moment: A self-defense expert breaks it down
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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David v Goliath: How to beat a big hospital (using small claims court)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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How to handle debt collectors, with the TikTok Mom and a legal expert
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Your TikTok Mom has some medical-bill tips, and a hell of a story
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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A Blast of Hope and Humanity: Here's what perseverance looks like
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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She tangled with health insurance every day for 25 years. And loved it. Here's what she can teach us.
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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How to fight like a bulldog (against bogus medical bills)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Financial self-defense school, now in session: Make your own luck.
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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We’re back! Dealing with the cost of health care seems pretty relevant right now.
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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The hug shortage, the new abnormal, and the $7,000 COVID test. What we've learned in SEASON-19
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May 27, 2020 |
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How Katelyn survived COVID—without going bankrupt. (Not easy. She has tips.)
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May 20, 2020 |
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From inside the health insurance company: Angst, and advice we can use.
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May 13, 2020 |
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The severe, weird recession... in health care. And what it means for our wallets
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May 06, 2020 |
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COVID tests are free, except... when they're not
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Like a fire with no one to call: 'We've left no latent capacity in health care.'
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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If I get COVID-19, what good will my insurance do me?
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Makers unite: Speeding PPE to a COVID hospital
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Whoa. Welcome to SEASON-19
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Reporter's Notebook: What we've learned so far, and what's ahead.
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Watch Your Back: Outwitting the Back-Pain Industry
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Christmas in July
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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This hospital sued thousands of patients — until a reporter called them out.
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Can they freaking DO that?!?
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Why can't they tell you the price upfront?
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Health Care: The Musical
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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My Neighbor the Health-Care Ninja
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Mom vs. Texas
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Hey there! Season 3 is coming November 14. Here’s a preview.
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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A place where they do health care more cheaply and effectively. (And yes, it’s in the U.S.)
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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An actor walks into a doctor’s office…
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Whoa, this medical device is spying on me. In my sleep. So my insurer can deny me coverage.
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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The surprising history behind insulin’s absurd price (and some hopeful signs in the wild)
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Coming next week: The price of insulin
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Why are drug prices so random? Meet Mr. PBM
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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How much for an MRI? Well, that depends…
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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To get paid, hospitals get creative
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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We thought we had adulted properly
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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We’re back! Here’s a taste of Season 2, launching June 4.
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May 23, 2019 |
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A “deal” on health insurance comes with troubling strings
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Why are ER bills so horrible? Sarah Kliff spent a year finding out. (Season One, episode 7)
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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Why Health Insurance Actually Sucks (Season One, episode 6)
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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So, Robin Hood’s got an approach to medical bills. (Season One, episode 5)
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Why you (and I) will likely pick the wrong health-insurance plan (Season One, episode 4)
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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How one drug got its $500,000 price tag. (With 99 Percent Invisible– Season One, episode 3)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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All the Marbles: One woman’s epic quest for health insurance (Season One, episode 2)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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This is Water, and it sucks. Let’s talk. (Season One, episode 1)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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A podcast about the cost of health care, coming November 2018
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Oct 11, 2018 |