The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part Two

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In February, we asked you, our listeners, to share the tips, tricks, and tactics you’ve learned for getting the medicine you need at prices you can manage.

And of course some of you work in health care and have insider knowledge. Which we’re passing along in this second episode of The Prescription Drug Playbook.

We’ll hear from a listener who works to help seniors find healthcare, a pharma sales rep, an employee benefits advisor, and a battle-worn hospital caseworker – all bringing something a little surprising, and possibly even life-saving to the table.

Of course—for all their advice, there is a BIG caveat: there is no one solution for everyone. This is a set of patches, workarounds, bandaids.

We deserve SO much better. But in the meantime, maybe some of these tips can help.

Here’s a link to the Find a Health Center Tool that we told you about in the episode—it’s worth checking out!

And here's the full drug-price song by producer Claire Davenport and some robots

Find the whole Prescription Drug Playbook series – including our First Aid Kit newsletters — at armandalegshow.com/drugs

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0:00.0	AI, self-driving cars, violent heat domes, and the all-too-occational glimmer of hope.
0:07.4	Is it just me or is science fiction getting a little too real these days?
0:11.7	I'm Katie Campbell, and on the latest episode of Meet Me Here, we're predicting what to expect at Clarion West's speculative fiction write-a-thon this summer.
0:20.8	What kind of future could you imagine?
0:23.2	Listen to meet me here on the K-U-O-W app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:28.6	Hey there.
0:30.3	Let's meet Jeannie Chamberlain from North Carolina.
0:33.4	She regularly talks with people who take like 15 different medications every day.
0:38.6	You're like, oh my gosh.
0:41.3	And literally where the retail costs are $20,000 a month.
0:46.8	Jeannie is an expert, twice over.
0:49.7	Since retiring from a career managing hospitals and medical groups,
0:53.1	she has been helping her fellow
0:54.2	seniors figure out how to manage what they pay for health care as a county-level volunteer
0:59.7	coordinator for a program called SHIP.
1:02.4	And SHIP stands for seniors health insurance information program.
1:07.4	Actually, in some cases, it stands for a state health insurance assistance program.
1:12.5	Whatever you want to call it, it's a federally funded program that helps seniors with all things
1:17.1	Medicare.
1:18.1	And every state has its own version of ship.
1:21.5	During the busy season that's in the fall when people can pick new insurance for the coming year,
1:26.1	Jeannie says she and her team speak to more than 100 people a week.
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