We thought we had adulted properly

An Arm and a Leg

Documentary, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Caitlin and Corey Gaffer got a surprise letter from their insurance company — saying they were being dumped for non-payment. Except, as far as they knew, they were paid up. As it turned out, they’d made a couple of small mistakes,

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0:00.0	Hey there real quick, if you appreciate an arm and a leg, this is the best time to help us make the show by making a donation.
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0:14.0	dot com slash support. Thanks. Okay here's a show.
0:18.3	Hey there, this is an Arm and a Leg, a show about the cost of health care. I'm Dan Weissman.
0:24.0	Welcome to season two. I have been learning so much and really excited to share these stories
0:31.2	with you.
0:32.6	For example, as soon as this show launched last fall, I started getting emails from
0:37.5	listeners.
0:38.5	One of them had the subject line, pregnant woman and her husband in Minnesota need help.
0:46.0	This story illustrates one of the big, big themes we're exploring on this show.
0:52.0	You gotta have your guard up the whole time. Be ready for anything to happen.
0:57.0	At minimum, you got to be ready to do some pretty advanced adulting. And even then,
1:02.0	holy crap you guys.
1:05.0	I mean the couple in this story, Caitlin and Corey,
1:09.0	they had already done some pretty good adult.
1:11.0	More than two years... pretty good adult.
1:18.0	Within two years ago, Caitlin was looking at leaving her job to go back to school and Corey was self-employed and they were thinking they'd like to have a baby
1:22.0	and they were asking the tough questions.
1:23.6	So yeah we kind of had to like really walk through it and talk about what the insurance looks like
1:29.7	with having a baby and should I just hang on to this job so we can have insurance.
1:34.3	Like that was a conversation we had.
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