We’re back! Dealing with the cost of health care seems pretty relevant right now.
An Arm and a Leg
An Arm and a Leg
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🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, my name is Dan Weisman. I'm a reporter, and for the last couple years, I've been making a show about the cost of health care called an arm and a leg. |
| 0:09.0 | I spent this spring making a special pop-up season about the cost of COVID-19. We learned about |
| 0:14.7 | testing. Oh my God that woman took my soul out of my head with that cute tip. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah and then she sent a big fat bill. |
| 0:24.0 | And we learned a lot about how some people |
| 0:26.0 | survived the pandemic financially, |
| 0:28.0 | by fighting with insurance. |
| 0:31.0 | I just annoy the tar out of them, |
| 0:32.0 | and I'm at this point trying to do a full-time job, barely able to breathe, and I'm having to spend hours of my day on the phone with these chuckle bucks. |
| 0:46.0 | And we learned who was making bank. |
| 0:48.0 | I just got a spreadsheet showing that some labs are charging as much as $6,000 for a single test. |
| 0:54.0 | What? |
| 0:55.0 | To run a single person's COVID-19 test? |
| 0:57.0 | Yes. |
| 0:58.0 | There's a lab that wants six grand? |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, that's crazy. |
| 1:01.0 | And one thing I learned for sure, all the stuff I've been learning over the last couple of years making this show, that stuff is more relevant than ever. |
| 1:09.0 | So we're coming back, starting August 6th. |
| 1:13.6 | Last year, I interviewed a woman I called a Medical Bill Ninja. |
| 1:17.2 | And as this year started, I was like, |
| 1:19.6 | I think we ought to build a dojo. |
| 1:21.6 | So yeah, we're doing that. I've been lining up teachers. I've got a |
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