An Arm and a Leg

Latest Episodes
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?
The Genetic Testing ‘Bait-and-Switch’
Can a health care company make enough people mad to face actual consequences?