Hey there as I was starting to write the script for this episode

I got an email from Walmart. It said your package has been delivered

And I went right downstairs to grab that thing. I did not want to risk some stupid porch pirate getting it. I

Open the door

Oh boy got it inside. Let's see is this what I hope it is

Took up my keys

Rip the box open it. Yep

Yeah, that was a short live burst of joy

This is like

It's the shittiest thing that this is the most excited. I've been about receiving a package for a really really long time

Because you know it was inside that box ten little two packs of covid tests

Walmart sells them at cost $14 a two pack, which is like nine or ten bucks less than anywhere else

When you can get them which completely sucks because these are my family's key not to living a normal life but to

Doing some normal things like having dinner with my mom who's 91

Occasionally seeing a friend without a mask without worrying we could be passing long covid

Especially with this super transmissible Omicron variant that is no freaking joke and even at seven bucks a pop these tests are

stupidly expensive. I mean it's the holidays. I want to see a few people

Today on the show why we want these tests and why they're so expensive and hard to find in

In the United States because guess what it's not this way in other countries and it didn't have to be this way here

But you know on the upside some people are definitely making a nice dollar this way

This is an arm and a leg show about why health care costs so freaking much and what we can maybe do about it

Dan Weissman I'm a reporter and I like a challenge

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