Hey there! It has been a heck of a year. It's time to celebrate, or at least, you know, remember.

I got together with members of the Arm and a Leg editorial team recently

to look back on the stories that left their mark on us. I mean, we got together virtually.

Okay. Dan, are you recording on Zoom?

I'm recording from Zoom.

Fab.

This is an Arm and a Leg.

I show about why healthcare costs so freaking much and what we can maybe do about it.

I'm Dan Weissman.

I'm Marian Wang. I edit the Arm and a Leg podcast.

I'm Emily Pisa Crita. I'm a producer and reporter for an Arm and a Leg.

And I'm Gabrielle Healy. I, at the first aid kit, are newsletter.

We're journalists and we like a challenge. So our job here is to take one of the most

raging, terrifying, depressing parts of American life and bringing something

entertaining and powering and useful. And welcome to our debrief.

I'm super happy to have you all here. And we're going to talk about some of the things that we've

done and covered and seen this year that have left the biggest impressions on us.

And Emily, I think you volunteered to go first.

Yeah. Emily, go first.

Okay. It was really exciting this year to be able to do a story about insulin, which I have focused

on for a long time in my research and my writing. And that also is the medicine that I have to take

every day to stay alive. We looked at California's initiative to make its own insulin.

...