Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds
An Arm and a Leg
An Arm and a Leg
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, today's episodes started with a question that seemed pretty of the moment, |
| 0:04.5 | and very much our kind of question. |
| 0:06.9 | The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. |
| 0:09.9 | How does that affect my insurance coverage? |
| 0:12.4 | And we found a couple of things. |
| 0:15.1 | One, it's probably not changing your insurance, like not yet. |
| 0:18.4 | And for a lot of people, not at all. |
| 0:20.2 | But if you get your insurance from work, there's no one answer. |
| 0:24.1 | We've entered an extremely weird period, and we're going to be here for a while. |
| 0:29.6 | And two, producer Emily Pisa Kratos reporting for this episode shows there's actually another |
| 0:35.1 | question. |
| 0:36.1 | Like a whole other story here that turns out to be even more our kind of thing. |
| 0:40.1 | Hey Emily. |
| 0:41.1 | Hey Dan, and yep, this is a story about people organizing to help each other get the health |
| 0:45.9 | care they need, building a huge network, and making the most of limited resources in |
| 0:51.4 | the face of so much powerful opposition. |
| 0:54.2 | Yeah, and look, however you happen to feel about abortion itself, I hope you're going |
| 0:58.0 | to agree, that's the kind of story we can all learn from. |
| 1:02.0 | This is an arm in a leg, a show about why healthcare costs so freaking much, and what we can |
| 1:06.2 | maybe do about it. |
| 1:07.2 | And Dan Weissman, I'm a reporter, and I like a challenge. |
| 1:10.2 | So our job on this show is to take one of the most raging, terrifying, depressing parts |
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