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Hidden Help: What Happened When Oregon Forced Hospitals to Boost Financial Aid? (From Tradeoffs)
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Medicare plans keep disappearing
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System meltdown: employer-sponsored health insurance
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A Texas doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’ (from 2023)
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Julie Rovner is worried: Checking in with a veteran DC reporter.
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How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial With a Little-Known Tool (from ProPublica’s "Paper Trail")
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The Prescription Drug Playbook (Full Version)
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The Chatbot Will See You Now: Big Tech In Therapy (from Organized Money)
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The Supreme Court case that could slow generic drugs
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Why drugs cost so much, 101: Medicine monopolies
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‘Not workable’: How two Americans picked a plan this year — or didn’t
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The EpiPen and Food Allergies (from Drug Story)
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NYT’s Ron Lieber: ‘These people are not going to win.'
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'Sh**’s wild': Scaling up, doubling down, and buckling in
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Our favorite project of 2025 levels up – and you can help
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Some more things that didn’t suck in 2025

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How to pick health insurance — in the worst year ever

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Some things that didn’t suck in 2025 (really)

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This health economist wants your medical bills

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We love this listener’s project — and your response

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Will we be able to afford insurance in 2026?

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The Insurance Warrior battles a $61 billion company (from 2021)

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A wild health insurance hustle

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The great American drug shortage isn't an accident, it's artificial (from Organized Money)

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The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part Two

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Trailer: The Prescription Drug Playbook

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The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part One

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Could this mathematician’s formula fix US hospitals?

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A longtime expert puts 2025-so-far in perspective

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Why ‘The Pitt’ is our fave new drama

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Winning a two-year fight over a bogus bill

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A medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the new administration

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Big news: Our ‘First Aid Kit’ newsletter is now weekly

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How do you deal with wild drug prices?

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The ‘Shkreli Awards’ — for dysfunction and profiteering in health care

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This is An Arm and a Leg

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A listener fighting the good fight

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Revisiting ‘Christmas In July’

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New lessons from the fight for charity care

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Fight health insurance — with help from AI

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Can racism make you sick?

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Special Feature: A Beloved Nursing Home, from “To See Each Other”

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“Baby steps” in the fight against facility fees

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Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)

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Don’t get “bullied” into paying what you don’t owe

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We want to see your hospital bills

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The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee

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Coming soon: your stories on facility fees

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Meet the Middleman’s Middleman

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Staying on Medicaid seems tougher than it should be

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We’re digging into “facility fees.” We need your help.

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The Hack

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Son of Medicare: Attack of the Machines

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The Medicare Episode

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Wait, is insulin cheaper now?

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Self defense 101: Keeping your cool while you fight

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One last tip before 2024

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When hospitals sue patients (part 2)

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When hospitals sue patients (part 1)

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To get health insurance, this couple made a movie

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“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medical debt

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Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists - Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (The Glaucomfleckens)”

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John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 2)

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John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 1)

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Something's coming, something good.

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How to Get a Surprise Bill on Your Way to the Hospital

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Wait, what’s a PBM (and how do they work)?

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Credit Card, Please

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A ‘payday loan’ from a health care behemoth

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Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster

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A $229,000 medical bill goes to court

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A doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’

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Lessons from “wrestling with a giant”

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The bill looked like BS. So she took it to small claims court.

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Can They Freaking Do That?!? (2023 Edition)

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2022 in Review

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Like pulling teeth.

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The best video about health insurance, ever

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Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds

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A listener asks: Could NOT having insurance be a better deal?

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Quick update from Arm and a Leg HQ

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California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.

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Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.

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The Medical-bill "Negotiation Lab"

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The Genetic Testing ‘Bait-and-Switch’

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One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System

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These docs are trying to kick private equity out of their ER

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Credit Where It’s Due

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“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)

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Sick Note, pt. 2: Dang

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Sick Note: Dan has COVID. (He's fine, but ...)

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Fighting for the Right to Help

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Swimming with sharks

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Introducing: Half Vaxxed

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Introducing: Last Day

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Meet your new rights under the No Surprises Act

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2022 update: How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test (feat. Sarah Kliff)

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Our Year in Review, with members of the Arm and a Leg team

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Why rapid COVID tests are so freaking expensive

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Fighting with health insurance is easy (for Jacqueline Fox)

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