Season 1: Fall/winter 2018 Episode 1: This is Water, and it sucks. Let’s talk. The cost of health care is like water. We’re all surrounded by it. We don’t even see it anymore. And why am I making this show? Episode 2: All the Marbles: One woman’s epic quest for health insurance Laura Derrick takes a drug that costs more than $500,000…

The new season launches June 4! I’m so excited to share the trailer with you.  This season is full of stories from listeners , and every single one of them opens up vital, maddening questions about the cost of health care… which I get to run down. In fact, we spend about half the season starting to wrap our minds…

Hey there! We’ve been working hard on season 2. We hope you enjoy this preview , there’s so much good (and frightening) stuff ahead.

This is our latest newsletter. You can sign up to get these every couple of weeks. YEP!  That’s right: Season 2 starts in June!  Whitney, Daisy and I agreed on the dates just last Friday. I am having a great time working on this batch of stories-in-progress. And it’s going a LOT more smoothly than last season, thanks in part to…

The spiraling cost of medical care shapes people’s lives: The jobs we’re afraid to leave because of insurance, the risk that a trip to the doc could end in bankruptcy. It’s not healthy. This is my story too, and that’s why I’m making this podcast. Here’s what I’ve got in mind. An Arm and a Leg will be entertaining, empowering, even…

The AWESOME Foundation is … a really, really lovely thing, powered by a simple idea, a website, and a bunch of wonderful people. The idea: If ten people in a given place all agree to put up a hundred bucks a month, suddenly they’re a foundation! They can make thousand-dollar grants. As of this writing, people do this in 96…