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Podcast Episode
November 16, 2023
To get health insurance, this couple made a movie
To qualify for health insurance, Ellen Haun and Dru Johnston made a movie about health...
Podcast Episode
October 19, 2023
Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists- Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (The Glaucomfleckens)”
As Dr. Glaucomflecken, Will Flanary’s punchy and funny videos on our awful health care system...
Podcast Episode
July 27, 2023
How to Get a Surprise Bill on Your Way to the Hospital
Ambulance rides are one of the most common sources of surprise medical bills. So why...
Podcast Episode
July 6, 2023
Wait, what’s a PBM (and how do they work)?
If you’ve been told your insurance won’t cover your meds, you’ve met a PBM: a...
Podcast Episode
September 8, 2022
Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.
Lots of seniors have to pay thousands of dollars for drugs,even tens of thousands,or do...
Podcast Episode
July 7, 2022
One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic— and the Health Care System
Dr. Thomas Fisher’s book ‘The Emergency’ chronicles the COVID pandemic’s first year in his Chicago...
Podcast Episode
December 30, 2021
Our year in review
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Podcast Episode
December 20, 2021
Why rapid COVID tests are so freaking expensive
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First Aid Kit
November 9, 2021
Introducing First Aid Kit: A financial survival guide to health care
We live in hell. Who wants some burn cream?...
Podcast Episode
February 25, 2021
Revisiting insulin, as relevant (and expensive) as ever
Revisiting and updating a story from 2019: How insulin got to be so horribly expensive,the...
Podcast Episode
December 18, 2020
From our reporter’s notebook: What we’ve learned in 2020, and what’s ahead, with T.K. Dutes
This episode turns the tables: Host Dan Weissmann gets interviewed about what he’s learned this...
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