Share our essential resource guide and help build on it.

We made a guide that could help someone get care and avoid debt.

Journalists at An Arm and a Leg worked with our listeners to develop a list of top resources for anyone who needs help with medical expenses. 

It’s a community-driven project, and you can help.

How to get involved

Share the link. Send anyone who could use this resource to armandalegshow.com/help. 

Print and distribute a physical copy of the list. Make as many copies as you want of this one-sheet with QR codes. Find a bulletin board in town and pin some there! Distribute copies at your local library! Throw dozens off the top of a stairwell! (OK, maybe be a little more judicious than that — but be creative.)

Customize it for your community. You can add local or state-based resources to the list. Or translate it into another language. Here’s a template that you can use. (It requires a free account on canva.com.) It comes with a menu of instructions to guide you through the process so you can easily adapt the guide to fit your needs.

Please note: This resource is shared under a Creative Commons license. Meaning: you can share it, adapt it, and use it — just make sure appropriate credit is given to the original creators and that any new copies and/or versions are licensed under the same terms. 

Connect with others to build on the idea. Get in touch with the project organizers, with the form below, and let us know how you’d like to contribute further.

The backstory 

An Arm and a Leg is a reporting project about the cost of health care in the U.S. that includes a podcast and newsletter.

Earlier this year, med student Thomas Sanford wrote to the An Arm and a Leg staff asking if we had a list of tried-and-true resources he could share with patients about managing medical expenses. 

We didn’t have one, but we gave it our best first shot. And after we shared that draft, more folks across the Arm and a Leg community pitched in to help Thomas adapt that resource to what you see today. 

You can listen an episode of the podcast to get the whole backstory of this project and hear from the people who started it — and a follow-up episode on where the project stands at the end of 2025.