Health Care: The Musical

An Arm and a Leg

Documentary, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It would sound a LOT like Explanation of Benefits, which is a musical revue that actually played in New York City in 2019.... so it would feature a parody of "Bills, Bills, Bills" — the 1999 Destiny's Child hit —rewritten for...

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0:13.0	Okay, if this podcast were a musical, it would be explanation of benefits, which is a show that
0:19.8	actually played in New York this year. It does something I've always wanted to do on this show,
0:24.8	which is to quickly walk through a big picture story of how he got into our current mess over the
0:29.5	last hundred and some years. And it includes a number with this catchy chorus.
0:34.4	Can you pay my medical bill?
0:37.8	Can you pay my deduct a bill?
0:39.8	So maybe I can get my bills.
0:41.8	Have to go viral. There's also advice at the end about protecting yourself from unexpected medical bills. I mean, these are my kind of people.
0:54.0	This is an arm and a way.
1:00.0	A podcast about the cost of health care. I'm Dan Weisman.
1:04.0	Explanation of benefits is by a young company called Heck no Techno,
1:08.0	and they did not initially set out to do a show about the cost of health care.
1:12.0	At all. Actually, they started out as two friends
1:15.2	from high school now in their late 20s Emily Loeinger and Eileen Kanil.
1:19.3	Emily and I have been trying to write something together for so long.
1:23.0	There were a couple of stabs at TV pilots
1:24.8	and then an idea for a very different kind of musical.
1:27.8	The idea was Chastity Island.
1:29.7	People are on this big brother-esque show. the winner will be the person who stays
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