An Arm and a Leg

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Something different: We talk with journalist Cara Anthony about topics that don’t always come up in conversations about the cost of health care. For the last four years, she’s been reporting on the public health effects of racism, violence, and intergenerational trauma in a small Missouri town.. The result: A new documentary and podcast series called Silence in… Play episode

Special Feature: A Beloved Nursing Home, from “To See Each Other”
“Baby steps” in the fight against facility fees
Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)
Don’t get “bullied” into paying what you don’t owe
We want to see your hospital bills
The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee
Coming soon: your stories on facility fees
Meet the Middleman’s Middleman
Staying on Medicaid seems tougher than it should be
We’re digging into “facility fees.” We need your help.
The Hack
Son of Medicare: Attack of the Machines
The Medicare Episode
Wait, is insulin cheaper now?
Self defense 101: Keeping your cool while you fight
One last tip before 2024
When hospitals sue patients (part 2)
When hospitals sue patients (part 1)
To get health insurance, this couple made a movie
“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medica…
Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists - Conversations: Wi…
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 2)
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 1)
Something's coming, something good.
How to Get a Surprise Bill on Your Way to the Hospital
Wait, what’s a PBM (and how do they work)?
Credit Card, Please
A ‘payday loan’ from a health care behemoth
Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster
A $229,000 medical bill goes to court
A doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’
Lessons from “wrestling with a giant”
The bill looked like BS. So she took it to small claims court.
Can They Freaking Do That?!? (2023 Edition)
2022 in Review
Like pulling teeth.
The best video about health insurance, ever
Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds
A listener asks: Could NOT having insurance be a better deal?
Quick update from Arm and a Leg HQ
California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.
Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.
The Medical-bill "Negotiation Lab"
The Genetic Testing ‘Bait-and-Switch’
One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System
These docs are trying to kick private equity out of their ER
Credit Where It’s Due
“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)
Sick Note, pt. 2: Dang

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Can racism make you sick?