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Tracks by Dan Weissmann
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A doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’
29 min
Podcast
Lessons from “wrestling with a giant”
20 min
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The bill looked like BS. So she took it to small claims court
26 min
Podcast
Can They Freaking Do That?!? (2023 Edition)
21 min
Podcast
2022 in Review
14 min
Podcast
Like pulling teeth
26 min
Podcast
The best video about health insurance, ever
19 min
Podcast
Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds
26 min
Podcast
A listener asks: Could NOT having insurance be a better deal?
27 min
Podcast
Quick update from Arm and a Leg HQ
5 min
Podcast
California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really
19 min
Podcast
Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades
26 min
Podcast
The Medical-bill Negotiation Lab
24 min
Podcast
The Genetic Testing ‘Bait-and-Switch’
18 min
Podcast
One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System
21 min
Podcast
These docs are trying to kick private equity out of their ER
22 min
Podcast
Credit Where It’s Due
18 min
Podcast
“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)
20 min
Podcast
Sick Note, pt. 2: Dang
1 min
Podcast
Sick Note: Dan has COVID. (He's fine, but ...)
2 min
Podcast
Fighting for the Right to Help
19 min
Podcast
Swimming with sharks
26 min
Podcast
Introducing: Last Day
41 min
Podcast
Meet your new rights under the No Surprises Act
18 min
Podcast
2022 update: How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test (feat. Sarah Kliff)
23 min
Podcast
Why rapid COVID tests are so freaking expensive
21 min
Podcast
Fighting with health insurance is easy (for Jacqueline Fox)
19 min
Podcast
How to avoid the crappiest health insurance
25 min
Podcast
The Insurance Warrior takes on a $61B Company
24 min
Podcast
Meet the Insurance Warrior
24 min
Podcast
We spend 12 million hours a week on the phone with health insurance
20 min
Podcast
Wait, that was legal until now?!?
27 min
Podcast
We just kept right on pushing
26 min
Podcast
The wild backstory of a tiny but crucial Obamacare provision (ft. David Axelrod)
26 min
Podcast
A legendary lawyer sued hospitals for price-gouging their patients. And got his butt handed to him
23 min
Podcast
Who's been trying to cash in on COVID vaccinations? (And how did racism help them out?)
32 min
Podcast
Revisiting insulin, as relevant (and expensive) as ever
31 min
Podcast
A legal strategy for erasing billions in medical debt— that works—from a 60-second video
26 min
Podcast
A former bad guy lawyer shows us how the dark machinery works. And our rights
24 min
Podcast
A 21st-century Christmas Carol: How one Scrooge became a health-care whistleblower
22 min
Podcast
From our reporter's notebook: What we learned in 2020, and what's ahead, with T.K. Dutes
23 min
Podcast
Fight! My family tries to pick health insurance for next year. COVID makes it harder
19 min
Podcast
Andy Slavitt gives us a COVID check-in from 40,000 feet
28 min
Podcast
How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test: with Sarah Kliff of the New York Times
22 min
Podcast
How to Keep Cool in a Tough Moment: A self-defense expert breaks it down
28 min
Podcast
David v Goliath: How to beat a big hospital (using small claims court)
23 min
Podcast
How to handle debt collectors, with the TikTok Mom and a legal expert
28 min
Podcast
Your TikTok Mom has some medical-bill tips, and a hell of a story
25 min
Podcast
A Blast of Hope and Humanity: Here's what perseverance looks like
27 min
Podcast
She tangled with health insurance every day for 25 years. And loved it. Here's what she can teach us
26 min
Podcast
How to fight like a bulldog (against bogus medical bills)
23 min
Podcast
Financial self-defense school, now in session: Make your own luck
28 min
Podcast
The hug shortage, the new abnormal, and the $7,000 COVID test. What we've learned in SEASON-19
22 min
Podcast
How Katelyn survived COVID—without going bankrupt. (Not easy. She has tips.)
22 min
Podcast
From inside the health insurance company: Angst, and advice we can use
17 min
Podcast
The severe, weird recession... in health care. And what it means for our wallets
18 min
Podcast
COVID tests are free, except... when they're not
21 min
Podcast
Like a fire with no one to call: 'We've left no latent capacity in health care.'
17 min
Podcast
If I get COVID-19, what good will my insurance do me?
32 min
Podcast
Makers unite: Speeding PPE to a COVID hospital
21 min
Podcast
Watch Your Back: Outwitting the Back-Pain Industry
29 min
Podcast
Christmas in July
26 min
Podcast
This hospital sued thousands of patients — until a reporter called them out
23 min
Podcast
Can they freaking DO that?!?
28 min
Podcast
Why can't they tell you the price upfront?
26 min
Podcast
Health Care: The Musical
22 min
Podcast
My Neighbor the Health-Care Ninja
30 min
Podcast
Mom vs. Texas
29 min
Podcast
A place where they do health care more cheaply and effectively. (And yes, it’s in the U.S.)
23 min
Podcast
An actor walks into a doctor’s office…
18 min
Podcast
Whoa, this medical device is spying on me. In my sleep. So my insurer can deny me coverage
17 min
Podcast
The surprising history behind insulin’s absurd price (and some hopeful signs in the wild)
27 min
Podcast
Why are drug prices so random? Meet Mr. PBM
18 min
Podcast
How much for an MRI? Well, that depends…
22 min
Podcast
To get paid, hospitals get creative
16 min
Podcast
We thought we had adulted properly
24 min
Podcast
A “deal” on health insurance comes with troubling strings
22 min
Podcast
Why are ER bills so horrible? Sarah Kliff spent a year finding out. (Season One, episode 7)
19 min
Podcast
Why Health Insurance Actually Sucks (Season One, episode 6)
17 min
Podcast
So, Robin Hood’s got an approach to medical bills. (Season One, episode 5)
16 min
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Why you (and I) will likely pick the wrong health-insurance plan (Season One, episode 4)
19 min
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How one drug got its $500,000 price tag. (With 99 Percent Invisible– Season One, episode 3)
25 min
Podcast
All the Marbles: One woman’s epic quest for health insurance (Season One, episode 2)
19 min
Podcast
This is Water, and it sucks. Let’s talk. (Season One, episode 1)
20 min
Podcast
A $229,000 medical bill goes to court
27 min
Podcast
Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster
25 min
Podcast
A ‘payday loan’ from a health care behemoth
23 min
Podcast
Credit Card, Please
22 min
Podcast
Wait, what’s a PBM (and how do they work)?
22 min
Podcast
How to Get a Surprise Bill on Your Way to the Hospital
20 min
Podcast
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 1)
23 min
Podcast
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 2)
27 min
Podcast
Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists - Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (The Glaucomfleckens)”
64 min
Podcast
“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medical debt
26 min
Podcast
To get health insurance, this couple made a movie
19 min
Podcast
When hospitals sue patients (part 1)
28 min
Podcast
When hospitals sue patients (part 2)
37 min
Podcast
One last tip before 2024
4 min
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Self defense 101: Keeping your cool while you fight
25 min
Podcast
Wait, is insulin cheaper now?
25 min
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The Medicare Episode
29 min
Podcast
Son of Medicare: Attack of the Machines
30 min
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The Hack
22 min
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We’re digging into “facility fees.” We need your help
10 min
Podcast
Staying on Medicaid seems tougher than it should be
23 min
Podcast
Meet the Middleman’s Middleman
25 min
Podcast
The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee
26 min
Podcast
Don’t get “bullied” into paying what you don’t owe
24 min
Podcast
Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)
27 min