Hey, first: This is a GREAT time to support us — right now, every gift gets matched! Click here to support us.   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 –...

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...

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.....