An Arm and a Leg

By An Arm and a Leg

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Subscribers: 709
Reviews: 9
Episodes: 100

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!

Filio
 Apr 30, 2019
Everything is nicely done, music, storytelling, subject, investigations ... Even thoe I'm from Europe I love this podcast


 Mar 28, 2019

notestown
 Dec 3, 2018
These stories are so relatable. Who hasn't dealt with some insane healthcare bill. And the host does a really nice job...


 Nov 24, 2018

Description

An Arm and a Leg is a podcast about why health care costs so freaking much and what we can (maybe) do about it. If you’ve ever been surprised by a medical bill, you’re in good company. But as our team of seasoned journalists has learned from years of reporting — you’re not always helpless. We don’t have all the answers, but we’ll offer you tools and big picture insights with plenty of humor and heart.  An Arm and a Leg is co-produced with KFF Health News and distributed in partnership with KUOW. You can support An Arm and a Leg by donating at armandalegshow.com/support/ Show Credits: Created, hosted, and produced by Dan Weissmann with senior producer Emily Pisacreta and engagement producer Claire Davenport, edited by Ellen Weiss. Audio wizard: Adam Raymonda. Music is by Dave Weiner and Blue Dot Sessions. Bea Bosco is our consulting director of operations. Lynne Johnson is our operations manager.

Episode Date
Winning a two-year fight over a bogus bill
Mar 20, 2025
A medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the new administration
Feb 27, 2025
Big news: Our ‘First Aid Kit’ newsletter is now weekly
Feb 24, 2025
How do you deal with wild drug prices?
Feb 03, 2025
The ‘Shkreli Awards’ — for dysfunction and profiteering in health care
Jan 16, 2025
This is An Arm and a Leg
Jan 06, 2025
A listener fighting the good fight
Dec 30, 2024
Revisiting ‘Christmas In July’
Dec 12, 2024
New lessons from the fight for charity care
Nov 22, 2024
Fight health insurance — with help from AI
Nov 01, 2024
Can racism make you sick?
Oct 17, 2024
Special Feature: A Beloved Nursing Home, from “To See Each Other”
Oct 01, 2024
“Baby steps” in the fight against facility fees
Sep 26, 2024
Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)
Sep 05, 2024
Don’t get “bullied” into paying what you don’t owe
Aug 15, 2024
We want to see your hospital bills
Jul 25, 2024
The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee
Jul 11, 2024
Coming soon: your stories on facility fees
Jul 03, 2024
Meet the Middleman’s Middleman
Jun 13, 2024
Staying on Medicaid seems tougher than it should be
May 23, 2024
We’re digging into “facility fees.” We need your help.
May 02, 2024
The Hack
Apr 11, 2024
Son of Medicare: Attack of the Machines
Mar 21, 2024
The Medicare Episode
Feb 29, 2024
Wait, is insulin cheaper now?
Feb 08, 2024
Self defense 101: Keeping your cool while you fight
Jan 18, 2024
One last tip before 2024
Dec 28, 2023
When hospitals sue patients (part 2)
Dec 21, 2023
When hospitals sue patients (part 1)
Dec 07, 2023
To get health insurance, this couple made a movie
Nov 16, 2023
“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medical debt
Nov 02, 2023
Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists - Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (The Glaucomfleckens)”
Oct 19, 2023
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 2)
Sep 28, 2023
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 1)
Sep 07, 2023
Something's coming, something good.
Aug 17, 2023
How to Get a Surprise Bill on Your Way to the Hospital
Jul 27, 2023
Wait, what’s a PBM (and how do they work)?
Jul 06, 2023
Credit Card, Please
Jun 15, 2023
A ‘payday loan’ from a health care behemoth
May 25, 2023
Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster
May 03, 2023
A $229,000 medical bill goes to court
Apr 13, 2023
A doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’
Mar 23, 2023
Lessons from “wrestling with a giant”
Mar 02, 2023
The bill looked like BS. So she took it to small claims court.
Feb 09, 2023
Can They Freaking Do That?!? (2023 Edition)
Jan 19, 2023
2022 in Review
Dec 29, 2022
Like pulling teeth.
Dec 19, 2022
The best video about health insurance, ever
Dec 01, 2022
Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds
Nov 17, 2022
A listener asks: Could NOT having insurance be a better deal?
Nov 03, 2022
Quick update from Arm and a Leg HQ
Oct 20, 2022
California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.
Sep 29, 2022
Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.
Sep 08, 2022
The Medical-bill "Negotiation Lab"
Aug 18, 2022
The Genetic Testing ‘Bait-and-Switch’
Jul 28, 2022
One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System
Jul 07, 2022
These docs are trying to kick private equity out of their ER
Jun 16, 2022
Credit Where It’s Due
May 26, 2022
“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)
May 05, 2022
Sick Note, pt. 2: Dang
Apr 21, 2022
Sick Note: Dan has COVID. (He's fine, but ...)
Apr 07, 2022
Fighting for the Right to Help
Mar 24, 2022
Swimming with sharks
Mar 10, 2022
Introducing: Half Vaxxed
Feb 24, 2022
Introducing: Last Day
Feb 10, 2022
Meet your new rights under the No Surprises Act
Jan 27, 2022
2022 update: How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test (feat. Sarah Kliff)
Jan 13, 2022
Our Year in Review, with members of the Arm and a Leg team
Dec 30, 2021
Why rapid COVID tests are so freaking expensive
Dec 20, 2021
Fighting with health insurance is easy (for Jacqueline Fox)
Dec 09, 2021
How to avoid the crappiest health insurance.
Nov 24, 2021
The Insurance Warrior takes on a $61B Company
Nov 11, 2021
Meet the Insurance Warrior
Nov 01, 2021
We spend 12 million hours a week on the phone with health insurance
Oct 14, 2021
Wait, that was legal until now?!?
Sep 30, 2021
"We just kept right on pushing"
Sep 16, 2021
The wild backstory of a tiny but crucial Obamacare provision (ft. David Axelrod)
Sep 02, 2021
A legendary lawyer sued hospitals for price-gouging their patients. And got his butt handed to him.
Aug 19, 2021
We’re back! Starting Aug 19. And we’ve got some doozies for you.
Aug 05, 2021
Badass volunteers help Jared level up, in the fight to crush medical debt
Jul 15, 2021
A whole book about fighting effed-up medical bills? Yes, please.
Jun 30, 2021
Want to write a killer letter to insurance? Meet Jeannine.
Jun 09, 2021
Mini-episode: One guy skirts a medical-bill trap, and shares the secret.
May 19, 2021
Why picking the right insurance is so hard (bonus/encore)
Apr 28, 2021
Programming note: We're working on some cool new stuff.
Apr 07, 2021
Who's been trying to cash in on COVID vaccinations? (And how did racism help them out?)
Mar 17, 2021
Revisiting insulin, as relevant (and expensive) as ever
Feb 25, 2021
A legal strategy for erasing billions in medical debt— that works—from a 60-second video.
Feb 11, 2021
A former "bad guy" lawyer shows us how the dark machinery works. And our rights.
Jan 28, 2021
Mini-episode: Two small doses of good news
Jan 14, 2021
A 21st-century Christmas Carol: How one Scrooge became a health-care whistleblower
Dec 29, 2020
From our reporter's notebook: What we learned in 2020, and what's ahead, with T.K. Dutes
Dec 18, 2020
Fight! My family tries to pick health insurance for next year. COVID makes it harder.
Dec 11, 2020
Andy Slavitt gives us a COVID check-in from 40,000 feet
Dec 04, 2020
How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test: with Sarah Kliff of the New York Times
Nov 23, 2020
How to Keep Cool in a Tough Moment: A self-defense expert breaks it down
Nov 12, 2020
David v Goliath: How to beat a big hospital (using small claims court)
Oct 29, 2020
How to handle debt collectors, with the TikTok Mom and a legal expert
Oct 15, 2020
Your TikTok Mom has some medical-bill tips, and a hell of a story
Oct 01, 2020
A Blast of Hope and Humanity: Here's what perseverance looks like
Sep 17, 2020