Navigating Insurance
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First Aid Kit
August 15, 2025
How to mentally and financially prep for the 2026 health insurance marketplace
Health insurance sucks. We’ve always said it. And this year it’s going to be even...
First Aid Kit
August 7, 2025
They thought they bought insurance. Turned out, they had a new “job”
Hey there — Here’s one way today’s podcast episode is timely: It’s not too early...
First Aid Kit
July 2, 2025
A local clinic might have a line on affordable meds
To wrap up our series on workarounds for high drug prices, we’re looking at a strategy...
Podcast Episode
June 12, 2025
The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part One
How to get prescription drugs at an affordable price. First in a two-part series....
Podcast Episode
January 16, 2025
The ‘Shkreli Awards’ — for dysfunction and profiteering in health care
The Lown Institute’s contest for this year’s most outrageous stories of health care greed....
Podcast Episode
November 1, 2024
Fight health insurance — with help from AI
A new tool helps fight back against health insurance denials, by writing appeal letters with...
Podcast Episode
May 3, 2023
Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster
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Podcast Episode
December 29, 2022
2022 in Review
The Arm and a Leg team looks back on 2022. ...
Podcast Episode
December 19, 2022
Like pulling teeth
Health insurance usually doesn’t cover dental work. It’s as if teeth aren’t part of our...
Podcast Episode
December 1, 2022
Is this the best video on health insurance ever?
Listeners told us: ‘you gotta watch this video from Brian David Gilbert about health insurance....
Podcast Episode
November 17, 2022
Insurance in a post-Roe world, and a grassroots network of abortion funds
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade put some people’s health insurance into...
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