An Arm and a Leg: How To Pick Health Insurance In the Worst Year Ever
As millions face skyrocketing health insurance premiums, the Arm and a Leg team navigates their own limited options.
An Arm and a Leg: A Few Good Things From 2025 (Really)
Good news for health care access this year includes new state laws to rein in prior authorization and medical debt collectors.
An Arm and a Leg: This Health Economist Wants Your Medical Bills
A longtime health economist sets her sights on lowering Americans insurance premiums.
An Arm and a Leg: A Listener’s DIY Project Helps Others Deal With High Medical Bills
A medical students DIY project brings An Arm and a Leg listeners together with new tools to fight medical debt.
An Arm and a Leg: The Struggle To Afford Insurance in 2026 Hits Home
The senior producer of An Arm and a Leg starts planning for health insurance in 2026, and like millions of others signing up during this years open enrollment faces a steep price increase.
An Arm and a Leg: A Wild Health Insurance Hustle
A couple in New York thought they bought insurance. Instead, they got fake jobs.
An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part II
In this second part of a two-part series on dealing with the high price of prescription drugs, experts share their insider tips.
An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I
In Part 1 of a two-part series on dealing with the high price of prescription drugs, a father explains the strategies he used to get his daughter the medicine she needs to treat her epilepsy.
An Arm and a Leg: A Mathematical Solution for US Hospitals?
An immigrant mathematician is on a mission to save U.S. hospitals billions of dollars and improve the lives of doctors, nurses, and patients. At one hospital, it’s working.
An Arm and a Leg: A Health Policy Veteran Puts 2025 in Perspective
Two stories from Washington, D.C., give listeners a sense of what changes the Trump administration has been making to health policy, with 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner and Arthur Allen.
An Arm and a Leg: Why The Pitt Is Our Fave New Drama
An emergency room doctor says what the TV show The Pitt gets right about hospitals, including why theyre so crowded and the bills so high.
An Arm and a Leg: Winning a Two-Year Fight Over a Bogus Bill
How one Arm and a Leg listener stayed encouraged during a two-year fight over a bill she didnt owe.
An Arm and a Leg: Medical-Debt Watchdog Gets Sidelined by the New Administration
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is offline for now. Heres what that could mean for people with medical debt.
An Arm and a Leg: How Do You Deal With Wild Drug Prices?
An Arm and a Leg is collecting stories for a new series about how Americans get the medicine they need when faced with sticker shock.
An Arm and a Leg: The Shkreli Awards For Dysfunction and Profiteering in Health Care
The Lown Institute, a health care think tank, holds a contest every year for the most outrageous stories of greed in health care.
An Arm and a Leg: A Listener Fighting the Good Fight
A medical resident who listens to An Arm and a Leg is pushing for change with the American Medical Association and at the hospital where he works.
An Arm and a Leg: Revisiting Christmas In July
From the archives of An Arm and a Leg: a family tragedy, a 40-year tradition, and a million dollars in medical debt erased.
An Arm and a Leg: New Lessons in the Fight for Charity Care
Host Dan Weissmann checks back in on the fight for hospital charity care, with lessons from Dollar For and a savvy listener.
An Arm and a Leg: Fight Health Insurance With Help From AI
Meet the tech worker on a quest to use artificial intelligence to combat denials for coverage from patients health plans.
An Arm and a Leg: Can Racism Make You Sick?
In this episode of An Arm and a Leg, host Dan Weissmann sits down with 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Cara Anthony to talk about the documentary and podcast series she produced about the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing on a rural Missouri community. The project is called Silence in Sikeston.
