Hey there. When this show started, one of the big questions was, geez, what's my family going to do for health insurance?

And you can hear some of how that played out in episodes from our first season.

And the great news was

more than our rent, like hundreds of dollars more,

which we have a good deal on rent but still.

And then this fall we got a spreadsheet from our insurance broker, Kurt.

That premium would be going up by about 200 bucks come January 1st.

Or there were some lower cost options we could look at.

We've been wrestling with it.

And we're not the only ones.

The deadline for buying insurance

on the Obamacare exchange is coming up,

and a lot of workplaces have open enrollment right now, too.

So this show wasn't due to put out its next episode till next week but we

figured an inside look at our deliberations could maybe be useful to a lot of folks right now

especially because I get to call up an expert and debrief.

This is an arm in a leg, a show about the cost of health care.

I'm Dan Weissman.

I'm a reporter and I like a challenge.

So my job is to take one of the most enraging, terrifying, depressing issues in American life and bring you something entertaining, empowering, and useful.

And what's more entertaining than listening to an actual married couple talking about money?

I mean, it's not real. Housewives are sure, but...

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