An Arm and a Leg
Latest Episodes
Can They Freaking Do That?!? (2023 Edition)
Can a random medical provider send you an outrageously random bill? Sure. Can you fight back and win sometimes? Yes.
2022 in Review
The Arm and a Leg team looks back on moments when work collided with real life.
Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds
Insurance is a wild card, and has always left lots of people uncovered.
A listener asks: Could NOT having insurance be a better deal?
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.
California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.
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.
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"
Negotiating medical bills can work but it can be uncertain, scary. What if there were a science to it?