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An Arm and a Leg
An Arm and a Leg
A show about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can (maybe) do about it. Hosted by award-winning reporter Dan Weissmann (Marketplace, 99 Percent Invisible, Planet Money, Reveal). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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4.8 stars from 1,096 ratings
Last show soured all previous episodes
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“The show had a lot of good episodes. The latest show talking about the health effects of racism was ridiculous. I can’t understand the reasoning behind massaging such an idiotic narrative. i’m very disappointed.”
jmart444 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/19/24
i’m a nurse
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“I can’t complain about my health benefits as a nurse my partner and I are under my companies health benefits. We are super grateful for our healthcare insurance. This podcast is genius how it exposes healthcare systems and all the tactics insurance companies have to deeper their pockets on the...”Read full review »
Mearmen0629 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/17/24
Must listen!
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“My god this is an amazing podcast. As someone who works in the healthcare industry, we need to be more informed about the behemoth insurance companies, healthcare being continually a huge expense for ALL of us. This podcast MUST be on the top podcast list.”
Vy Waghorn via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/20/24
Recent Episodes
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Longtime listeners to this show know we’ve been talking about something called “charity care” for years. Federal law requires that all nonprofit hospitals have charity care policies –...
Published 11/22/24
Published 11/22/24
Several listeners sent us an article with the headline Make your health insurance cry, about a new AI tool to fight health insurance. We had to learn more.
Meet Holden Karau: a Bay Area software engineer who says she’s “trying to make health insurance suck a little bit less.”
So she’s created an...
Published 11/01/24
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