An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg


Latest Episodes

Can They Freaking Do That?!? (2023 Edition)
January 19, 2023

Can a random medical provider send you an outrageously random bill? Sure. Can you fight back and win sometimes? Yes.

2022 in Review
December 29, 2022

The Arm and a Leg team looks back on moments when work collided with real life.

Like pulling teeth.
December 19, 2022

Insurance bites, but we've learned a bunch here.

The best video about health insurance, ever
December 01, 2022

... and how it came to be.

Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds
November 17, 2022

Insurance is a wild card, and has always left lots of people uncovered.

A listener asks: Could NOT having insurance be a better deal?
November 03, 2022

Open enrollment for health insurance is here. A listener asks: Should my son even sign up for insurance? I may have found a better deal.

Quick update from Arm and a Leg HQ
October 20, 2022

... and a preview of what's coming up

California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.
September 29, 2022

California has put up $100 million to produce its own insulin. How's it going to work? (IS it going to work?)

Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.
September 08, 2022

Lots of seniors have to pay many thousands of dollars for drugseven tens of thousandsor do without life-saving medicine. Thats finally going to change.

The Medical-bill "Negotiation Lab"
August 18, 2022

Negotiating medical bills can work but it can be uncertain, scary. What if there were a science to it?