Hey there. Let's compare going to the doctor or God forbid the hospital to shopping for a gallon of milk.

When you're in the store to get some milk, the price it's marked on the shelf.

Maybe there's a couple of brands. You pick the one you want, pay on your way out.

Now with health care, the analogy would be you go to the store for a gallon of milk.

You have no idea what it costs. You don't know what it costs that that store compared to other

stores. You walk into a random store, pick out a gallon of milk, go through

checkout, you still don't know what it costs, you give them your credit card

information, and then a few weeks later you get a bill telling

you how much they charged you for it. That is super crazy. Yes.

That's Jenny Gold. She's an investigative reporter who writes about health care.

In this episode, Jenny's reporting will show us how insurance companies help keep those prices hidden.

Keep them high.

This is an arm and a leg.

Show about the cost of health care.

I'm Dan Weisman. And Weissman. Blake Valquier's knee was killing him.

Like he couldn't sleep at night.

He says he could feel his heartbeat in his femur.

Then he was twice its normal size. He could feel his heartbeat in his femur.

Then he was twice its normal size.

People that have had knee injuries

fully understand the feeling of it.

Everything was loose.

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