My Neighbor the Health-Care Ninja

An Arm and a Leg

Documentary, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Meredith Balogh has spent years learning to navigate the financial side of the health-care system. She’s a type-one diabetic, she’s never had a lot of money, and for years she didn’t have health insurance.It hasn’t been easy, but she’s become a mast...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm in Meredith Bayle's kitchen where she's pulled up an old Facebook messenger exchange on her phone.
0:05.0	Okay, awesome.
0:07.0	And I start reading it to myself.
0:08.0	Hello Kelly, hello, I'm working today so I'm in and out.
0:10.0	That's okay.
0:11.0	It's from a couple of years ago. Kelly is a mom who had been
0:14.2	posting about her daughter in a group for type 1 diabetics. The daughter was
0:18.0	12 and had just been diagnosed. About 20 years ago, Meredith had been that kid.
0:24.0	She went to a special camp for type 1 kids,
0:26.0	and it made a huge difference for her.
0:28.0	Immediately, she had a plan for this family.
0:31.0	I said, ah, I will get you into a free camp.
0:35.1	Like I just knew I could.
0:38.7	So she invited the mom into a private chat.
0:41.4	I get Meredith to do the reading from here on in.
0:43.6	If I can find you a contact for your daughter to go to camp for free, would you be
0:47.8	interested? I can't make promises, but I have a few connections I can try to pull.
0:52.2	Let me know.
0:53.0	A few days and a bunch of messages later,
0:56.0	Meredith has found camps near Kelly's home,
0:59.0	with generous financial aid policies.
1:01.0	She's connected Kelly with the right people and pushed her to turn in the paperwork.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from An Arm and a Leg, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of An Arm and a Leg and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.