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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She tangled with health insurance every day for 25 years. And loved it. Here's what she can teach us.

Posted September 3, 202000:25:30

Barbara Faubion got up every day psyched to go to work—which she says puzzled her friends. “They’d go, ‘You love your job?!? You spend your...

How to fight like a bulldog (against bogus medical bills)

Posted August 20, 202000:23:17

Steve Benasso is an HR director who, his colleagues will tell you, hates insurance companies, and hates seeing people getting taken advantage of. So...

Financial self-defense school, now in session: Make your own luck.

Posted August 6, 202000:27:39

If you need medical care, it's like you've entered a casino, playing for your financial life, with the deck stacked against you. Lucky for us, we get...

We’re back! Dealing with the cost of health care seems pretty relevant right now.

Posted July 27, 202000:02:06

There's no time like a pandemic to (a) learn to fight back against the awful cost of health care. And (b) have a good time doing it. Yep. Let’s go....

The hug shortage, the new abnormal, and the $7,000 COVID test. What we've learned in SEASON-19

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