HeyJaredAn Arm and a Leg
An Arm and a Leg is a podcast about why health care costs so freaking much and what we can (maybe) do about it.If you’ve ever been surprised by a medical bill, you’re in good company.
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- Sep 3, 2026
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- Jul 23, 2026
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System meltdown: employer-sponsored health insurance (opens the original)
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Employer-sponsored health insurance covers 165.6 million Americans. It’s the default. For lots of workers, it’s a key reason to accept a job offer, or to stay in a job. But that system is slowly imploding. As premiums have grown explosively — the average employer plan now prices out at $27,000 for family coverage — businesses have passed more costs onto their workers. And, as STAT News reporter Bob Herman wrote in July: America's Small Businesses are Giving Up on Health Insurance . That story ki
A Texas doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’ (from 2023) (opens the original)
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We’re bringing back a favorite episode from 2023 that raises a question as relevant as ever: What if we had a decent, publicly-funded health system, available to everybody, with or without insurance? We’ve got one, says Dr. Ricardo Nuila. It’s where he works. And it could be a model for the whole country. Yes, really. That’s the pitch he made in his 2023 book, The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine . It’s a love letter to Houston’s Ben Taub hospital, and an argument for bring
Julie Rovner is worried: Checking in with a veteran DC reporter. (opens the original)
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Last May, just a few months into the second Trump Administration, changes to federal health programs were happening at a bewildering pace. We brought in KFF Heath News Chief Washington Correspondent Julie Rover to help give us — and you — a big picture look at what some changes would mean . A year-and-change later, we wanted to check back in. We talk about the “crumbling Jenga tower” of public health infrastructure, the fallout from cuts to Obamacare subsidies, and Medicaid, and what Julie sees
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