2022 update: How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test (feat. Sarah Kliff)
An Arm and a Leg
An Arm and a Leg
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2013
⏱️ 24 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey there real quick, if you appreciate an arm and a leg, this is the best time to help us make the show by making a donation. |
| 0:07.3 | That's because right now a program called Newsmatch matches every dollar you give. |
| 0:12.1 | The place to go is Arm and a Lake Show. |
| 0:14.0 | dot com slash support. Thanks. Okay, here's a show. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey there, it is 2022, but a lot of the big questions feel very 2020. |
| 0:24.8 | Like, is my kid's school open this week? |
| 0:27.8 | Where can I get a COVID test? |
| 0:29.2 | How much is it going to cost me? |
| 0:30.7 | I mean, does anybody else feel like we're living in a messed up version of that |
| 0:33.9 | movie Groundhog Day you know the one where Bell Murray relives the same day over and |
| 0:38.5 | over again we talked all about home COVID tests on an episode of this show last month and unfortunately that |
| 0:46.1 | episode is still pretty darn relevant except you know the tests are even harder to find now |
| 0:50.2 | than they were a few weeks ago and last week I expanded on some advice from that |
| 0:54.6 | episode for our first aid kit newsletter. You might want to check it out and when I |
| 0:58.7 | wrote it up I found myself also looking back at an episode we did in late 2020 about how to avoid |
| 1:04.8 | getting stuck with a giant bill for a COVID test you get from a medical provider. |
| 1:08.7 | Because unfortunately that episode is still pretty darn relevant as well. And it seemed like about the best |
| 1:15.6 | service we could do for you right now would be to bring it back right here. I'll have a couple |
| 1:20.2 | updates for you at the end. Meanwhile, here we go. |
| 1:23.0 | This story idea actually came up when someone who is very temporarily |
| 1:27.6 | uninsured was asking me, hey, where should I get tested? And I was saying, okay, well, |
| 1:31.8 | here's how I would think about it and |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from An Arm and a Leg, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of An Arm and a Leg and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.