1244: How to Save on Health Care and Medical Bills with Dan Weissmann

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Guest Dan Weissmann is the host of the podcast An Arm and a Leg, where he takes one of the most enraging, terrifying, depressing aspects of American life—the cost of health care— and produce a show that's entertaining, empowering and useful. Topics discussed on today's show: How to negotiate your medical costs, securing health care when you leave a job, and the importance of shopping around for health care. More about Dan: Before creating An Arm and a Leg in 2018, partly as a response to his own family's quest for affordable health care, Dan worked in public radio. He's been a staff reporter for Marketplace and Chicago’s WBEZ, and has done stories for outlets like 99 Percent Invisible, Planet Money, Reveal, Code Switch, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, money episode 1244, Navigating, Healthcare, and Negotiating Medical Bills with Dan Weissman,
0:07.0	host of an Arm and a Leg podcast.
0:30.0	One thing that's true is, like, errors are common.
0:40.7	That's one thing I've learned from talking to people who work with insurance, who work
0:43.6	in insurance, who work in billing offices, like, happens all the time.
0:48.8	Welcome to So Money, everybody.
0:50.0	I'm your host, Farneesh Tarabi.
0:51.9	You know, I started a new job recently and I'm at a crossroads trying to figure out which
0:57.2	health insurance to take on.
0:59.4	I have my husband's health insurance that I've been on for many years, that he gets
1:02.7	through his employer.
1:04.1	Now working with red ventures and CNET, they have their own health plan and I'm trying
1:08.4	to figure out if it makes sense to switch.
1:11.1	My gut is telling me, just go at the flow, stay with the plan you have, don't rock the
1:15.5	boat.
1:16.5	But if there's significant savings to be had, it's worth considering, right?
1:20.6	Anyway, all this to say, the focus of today's podcast will be health care.
1:25.6	This is something we all have a story about, right?
1:28.7	Whether we are on our own health insurance plan because we're self-employed, we get it
1:33.0	through our employer, or we have nothing and we're trying to figure out how to get coverage.
1:37.8	Our guest is Dan Weissman, who is a former reporter from Marketplace and WBEZ.
1:44.0	He has recently started his own podcast called An Arm and a Leg, exploring the crazy
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