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An Arm and a Leg

Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

Documentary, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Insurance is a wild card, and has always left lots of people uncovered.

Transcript

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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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