Hey there, I'm Dan Weisman. I host an arm in a leg. We have been on hiatus for a minute,

and I am so excited about what we are coming back with. These are stories I've been working on

for months. Some of them from more than a year, and they're big. One of them turns out to be about

how change actually happens, which, for a show about the cost of healthcare, one that promises

and we do to be entertaining and empowering and useful. Change is important. And as horrible as

things are right now, I have been learning that some things used to be worse. For instance,

this year, we've been reporting on how people can get bills forgiven by hospitals. It's called

charity care, and it's the law. 20 years ago, in most of this country, this was not a thing.

We would call and say, hey, can we have a copy of your charity care policy? They said,

we don't have them. The road to making this a right took a lot of work from a lot of people.

Like one of the country's biggest lawyers, the guy who helped bring down big tobacco. He's even

a character in a movie from 1999. The governor of Mississippi is suing his own attorney general

to abandon litigation against big tobacco. Yeah, big tobacco was tough, and he beat them,

but on hospitals, he totally failed. Well, not total, but it's a wild ride, and we will be on it

for a few episodes. This ride even takes us into the Oval Office, which is fun. And then,

I've met a couple of people who have taken me into the guts of health insurance. It actually

blown my mind about what it really is. So like your typical insurance company doesn't actually

ensure anything. That's one of my teachers. She started learning about health insurance on the

fly when she was a young lawyer, and an insurance company said they were going to deny her mom's

cancer surgery. I was like, on the phone of my office going, I am out the door to sue you over

this. You need to understand because it's four o'clock. So I only have an hour to find a judge,

and I'm not going to wait. Yeah, that worked. And she had left her door open. So the support staff

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