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Hey there — The end of 2025 is near, which hopefully means you get some sort of break. We’ll be taking a quick one next week ourselves — and before we go, we want to share a few suggestions for your long road trip home or time spent vegging out by the fire: some of the An Arm and a Leg team’s favorite

Hey there — We’re picking up on a series we started a few weeks ago, looking back — in a year when lots of things got bumpy — on things that states did in 2025 to make things suck at least a little less. In red, blue, and purple states, governors signed bills aimed at protecting people from things like medical

Hey there, Last year, we talked with tech worker Holden Karau, who had built an AI-powered tool to fight denials by insurance companies with the slogan “Make your insurance company cry, too!” Since then, more tools have cropped up. A few months ago, an episode of The Nocturnists (a podcast made by and for health care workers) looked at a company called Claimable. So

Hey there, Dan started An Arm and a Leg with the idea that we’re better equipped to face America’s broken health care system together. And this newsletter builds on that idea, sharing the most-useful nuggets, winning strategies, and useful resources we cover on the show. And we couldn’t have asked for better company on that journey. Since we brought this newsletter weekly,

Hey there, In a way, every year is the worst year yet to buy insurance, because rates go up every year. So each year is always cruddier than any year before. But this year is especially awful. The rate hikes on employer-based plans are the highest in 15 years, and on the Obamacare side it’s even worse. Price hikes there