An Arm and a Leg
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 rep
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Quick update from Arm and a Leg HQ
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You may have noticed, we've been keeping a slower pace for the last few months — publishing every three weeks instead of every two...
California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.
This year, the state of California put up $100 million to produce its own insulin, and sell it for cheap. How’s it going to work? (Is it going to...
Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.
Lots of seniors have to pay thousands of dollars for drugs—even tens of thousands—or do without life-saving medicine. That’s finally going to...
The Medical-bill "Negotiation Lab"
It’s often possible to negotiate medical bills. It sounds hard — and it can be — but what if we got it down to a science? Mapped...
The Genetic Testing ‘Bait-and-Switch’
Is it possible for a health care company to make enough people mad about their billing practices that it hurts their business? For one genetic testing...
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