You’re helping us shape Season 3
August 28, 2019
smartdataseo
Uncategorized
You’re helping us shape Season 3: Here’s some of what we’re learning About 500 of you responded to our listener survey, and you are amazing. I mean, to start with: you are SO NICE. Here’s a small selection of things you’re saying you get from the show: My sense of hopeful outrage I guess Because…
Episodes of An Arm and a Leg
August 12, 2019
smartdataseo
drug pricing, health insurance, hospital bills, Uncategorized
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…
A place where they do health care more cheaply and effectively. (And yes, it’s in the U.S.)
July 31, 2019
danweissmann
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For our Season 2 finale, time for some inspiration. For 30 years, James Gingerich has run a super-effective clinic in Indiana, delivering great results at low cost , to high-need, low-income patients. He’s not a modest guy, and two of his brags stand out , as a study in contrasts. One is a quote from…
An actor walks into a doctor’s office
July 24, 2019
danweissmann
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Researcher Saul Weiner has been sending fake patients , actors, wired for sound , into real doctors’ offices, to learn about what actually happens, especially: How well doctors really listen to their patients. He’s tallied up what doctors miss (a lot), and how much it costs (ditto). In today’s episode, we hear what actually happened…
Whoa, this medical device is spying on me. In my sleep. So my insurer can deny me coverage.
July 17, 2019
danweissmann
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That’s the rude awakening Eric Umansky got when he called the company that provided his CPAP machine , a device that helps him breathe at night. He got mad. And he got even, in a way: Eric is an editor at the non-profit newsroom ProPublica, and he tipped a colleague ,Marshall Allen, who covers health…
The insane, surprising history behind insulin’s crazy price (and some hopeful signs in the wild)
July 10, 2019
danweissmann
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The price of insulin is iconic , doubling, tripling, multiplying like crazy, for medicine Type 1 diabetics can’t live without. To understand it, we went back almost 100 years and dug up a story of sweaty Canadian researchers , swatting away flies and doing business with probable dog-nappers, on the way to a Nobel Prize…