A Nasty Case of Healthcare Costs with Dan Weissmann #106

How to Money

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🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The leading cause of bankruptcy in America is the inability to pay medical bills- an estimated half a million people file for this reason every year! Almost no one is immune to the rising cost of healthcare, and fellow podcaster Dan Weissmann is here to commiserate. Dan’s podcast, An Arm and a Leg, is part journalism part personal narrative as he dives into real life experiences of Americans with their health coverage. Healthcare is definitely confusing, and based on the fact that our country spends almost 20% of our GDP on medical spending- it is also clear that costs are out of control.

During this episode we each enjoyed an SKB IPA by Sun King Brewery- a big thanks to James for donating this beer to the show! And if you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe and give us a quick review in Apple Podcasts, Castbox, or wherever you get your podcasts- we’d love to hear from you.

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1:33.0	Welcome to How To Money. I'm Joel and I'm Matt.
1:37.0	And today we're discussing a nasty case of healthcare costs with Dan Weissman.
1:47.0	Yeah, Joel has introduced Dan Weissman. He is the host and producer of the podcast, and Arm and a Leg.
2:05.0	He's a former staff reporter for Marketplace in Chicago's WPZ, but his work has also appeared on all things considered Marketplace and 99% invisible, which is one of my favorites, man. I love that show.
2:17.0	And so Dan, we're really excited to have you on the show. Thanks for joining us.
2:21.0	I'm super psyched to be here. Thanks for having me.
2:23.0	Yeah, man. We're really excited to have this conversation. You've done a lot of work, a lot of really good work on your podcast.
2:29.0	We're big fans of craft beer on the show today. We're drinking an IPA by Sun King Brewing and listener James sent that our way.
2:35.0	Speaking of which, we're big fans of craft beer. We are willing to spend more money on good beer because it's something that's important to us.
2:41.0	And we think it's really important to save for the future, but it's also important to explore something that are important to us today.
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