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An Arm and a Leg

If I get COVID-19, what good will my insurance do me?

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

Documentary, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2012

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Lots of people have insurance plans that only cover them with certain places —providers, certain hospitals.But: in a COVID pandemic surge, who knows if you'd end up one of those places? And if you end up someplace else... then what?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, how you doing?

0:02.8

Around here at my place, that answer is a minute by minute thing.

0:06.7

And we are incredibly lucky.

0:09.7

Three people all

0:13.2

like each other, knock wood, a cat we all adore.

0:16.5

There's food on the table, grown-ups who are used to working from home,

0:20.3

and a grocery store that lets us order in advance and brings the bags out to our car.

0:24.0

I mean, it's different.

0:27.0

We're not used to running a homeschool here too, much less a homeschool cafeteria,

0:31.0

and we are definitely not used to all being on top of each other all the

0:34.4

time.

0:36.2

And the store seems to be out of flour and butter and chocolate chips so that's going

0:40.5

to require an adjustment. And the jobs are different.

0:44.0

Me?

0:44.9

I wasn't planning on bringing this show back

0:46.5

until June for season four.

0:48.7

Now, we are figuring out how to do it every week

0:52.0

for as long as it takes. We're calling it season

0:55.0

19 like COVID 19. But I am really really glad to be able to make this show, to stay connected with you, to use

1:07.0

whatever my skills are in a way I hope will be useful.

1:10.0

And to both of those ends, I've been asking you for your questions and your stories.

1:14.0

And as usual, you have been coming through.

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