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An Arm and a Leg, a podcast about these issues, is co-produced by host Dan Weissmann and 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News. Previously, Weissmann was a staff reporter for Marketplace and Chicago’s WBEZ. His work also appears on “All Things Considered,” Marketplace, the BBC, 99% Invisible, and “Reveal” from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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Privacy concerns and coverage limits have long made insurance an unreliable option for abortion access. For decades, abortion funds have been stepping in to help people pay for what they see as essential health care.
For many Americans, it鈥檚 open enrollment season for 2023 health insurance. One listener asked: If you don鈥檛 have a job and are too old to be on your parents鈥 plan, does it make sense to rely on charity care? This episode breaks it all down.
California put up $100 million to produce its own insulin. How did this plan come to be, and what might stand in the state鈥檚 way?
In this episode, Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KHN, guides listeners through decades of dealings between Congress and Big Pharma.
A nonprofit that trains people to apply for charity care has started teaching others how to negotiate with hospitals and debt collectors to lower the amount they owe.
Her doctor told her the noninvasive genetic test would be $99. When she called, she was told $250 and if she didn't pay quickly it could be $800.
This episode is an interview with Dr. Thomas Fisher, author of "The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER."
In July, credit reporting bureaus will start taking paid medical debt off people's credit reports. Here's what you need to know.
Private equity companies are the house-flippers of the investment world, and they鈥檝e found their way into many areas of our lives 鈥 including your local gastroenterologist's office.
It's illegal for a person who isn't a lawyer to give even basic legal advice to people being sued for medical debt. Two New Yorkers are suing to change that.
The No Surprises Act offers protection from many surprise medical bills 鈥 but that protection may be only as good as a patient鈥檚 knowledge of the law and ability to make sure it鈥檚 enforced. Here鈥檚 what you need to know.
Even a personal finance expert can get stuck with a huge unexpected bill for a drug. Listen up for what you need to know about "copay accumulators."
The No Surprises Act protects patients from surprise out-of-network bills. But there are caveats. For instance, these protections apply only to care in a hospital. This episode breaks it all down.
In this episode, host Dan Weissmann talks to reporters who investigated the shortage of tests and traced the U.S. rapid-testing problem back to government agencies.
Law professor Jackie Fox looks at health insurance policies like any other contract, and she has spent 30 years making sound legal arguments to help patients get the care they need.
Listen to a journalist's first-person horror story on shopping for health insurance 鈥 and learn how to avoid the pitfalls.
Health care 鈥 and how much it costs 鈥 is scary. But knowledge is power. Take a master class in winning insurance appeals. In the case of Matthew Lientz, taking on his insurance also meant going up against his employer.
Laurie Todd calls herself the 鈥淚nsurance Warrior鈥 and is sharing her strategies for getting health insurance companies to bend to her will.
In this episode, we get our bearings on self-funded insurance plans, and how they affect the average 鈥 sometimes burned-out 鈥 American worker trying to get answers about insurance.
The law says nonprofit hospitals are supposed to offer low-income patients financial assistance. But the average person doesn鈥檛 know about it. Here鈥檚 how to get help.
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