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An Arm and a Leg

Fight health insurance — with help from AI

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

Documentary, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

“I hate insurance companies,” says tech worker Holden Karau. So she made a bot to battle with them.

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0:00.0

Hey, before we get started super quick, if you appreciate what we're doing here on an arm

0:05.3

and a leg, I want to ask you to help us out by donating to support the show. And I'm asking you

0:11.0

right now because right now, any money you give us gets matched dollar for dollar thanks to

0:16.9

newsmatch from the Institute for Nonprofit News. So you give us 50 bucks, they make it 100,

0:22.2

just like that. You can do that right now at arm and a leg show.com slash support.

0:31.4

Hey there. Let's start with introductions. My name is Carolyn D. Savon, and I have a super cute dog. His name is

0:39.0

Professor Timbitt. He's a professor because he's always researching something. My name is

0:44.6

Holden Caro, and I'm trying to make health insurance suck a little bit less. Carolyn and Holden

0:50.1

are married, and I talked with them in September because listeners had been sending me links

0:55.3

to a story from the San Francisco standard with the headline, Make Your Health Insurance Company

1:01.4

cry, one woman's fight to turn the tables on insurers. That woman was Holden. She works in

1:07.9

tech, and the story was about a tool she had built to help people fight

1:11.1

health insurance by writing appeal letters using AI, of course. She's made it available at a

1:17.4

website, Fighthealthinsurance.com. And I lose count of how many of you sent me that link, but

1:24.1

thank you so much. Holden and Carolyn live in San Francisco. I talked to them on

1:30.5

Zoom with a local reporter Lee Romney setting up mics for the two of them in their living room.

1:35.9

And the bookshelves I could see in the background had, along with books, lots of little stuffed

1:40.9

creatures. When I squinted, I could see a Pikachu.

1:44.8

So there's a few Pikachos, actually.

1:48.1

And we have a stuffed poop.

1:51.8

It's a wombat poop.

1:53.9

That's why it's square here.

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