An Arm and a Leg
Latest Episodes
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?
One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System
Dr. Thomas Fishers book The Emergency chronicles the COVID pandemics first year in his Chicago ER.
These docs are trying to kick private equity out of their ER
Private equity-backed companies run many emergency rooms. Now a group of doctors is trying to stop them.
Credit Where It’s Due
A lot of medical debt will be coming off of credit reports. We werent convinced it was such a big deal. Turns out, we were wrong
“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)
A new golden age is dawning, and it starts where the sun dont shine.
Sick Note, pt. 2: Dang
Dans COVID hung on there for a while, kept him SUPER tired. Yoinks. Back in a couple weeks!