Dan Weissmann
Host and Producer at An Arm and a Leg
Reporter, Writer, and Editor at Freelance
Host @armandalegshow. The most fun you might have while also getting super-mad. Also, useful.
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1 week ago |
m.kuow.org | Libby Denkmann |Jason Burrows |Dan Weissmann
A harried emergency room doctor rushes between patients; his waiting room is filled to the brim with sick and injured people, he’s dodging a RAT infestation, all while overseeing a new crop of residents getting up to speed on their ER rotation. AND oh yes… sparring with a hospital administrator who’s reminding him: He needs to get those patient satisfaction scores up.
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2 weeks ago |
kuow.org | Dan Weissmann
People who work in real-life emergency rooms have raved about how accurately the new drama The Pitt (Max) captures the dynamics and the medical details of their workplaces. Here at An Arm and a Leg, we’ve been nerding out about how the show depicts the financial forces that shape the ER’s day-to-day problems like crowding, eternal wait times, and scary bills. For this episode, we got Dr. Alex Janke, an emergency medicine doctor and health policy researcher to nerd out with us.
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1 month ago |
kuow.org | Dan Weissmann |Emily Pisacreta |Ellen Weiss
A few months ago, we got a note from a listener named Meagan, who wanted to thank us. She said the stories she heard on this show had given her the advice and encouragement she needed to finally win a fight against a medical bill she didn’t owe — a battle she’d been waging for more than two years. As Meagan tells us, those two years were filled with wild twists and turns and a lot of disappointment.
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1 month ago |
kffhealthnews.org | Dan Weissmann
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring medical debt from Americans’ credit reports and went after debt collectors who pressured customers to pay bills they didn’t owe. But in early February, the Trump administration moved to effectively shutter the agency.
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1 month ago |
kuow.org | Dan Weissmann |Emily Pisacreta |Ellen Weiss
A federal agency called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — CFPB for short — has taken big steps to help people with medical debt. In early February, the Trump administration moved to effectively shutter the agency. We talked with credit counselor Lara Ceccarelli about how the CFPB has helped clients at the nonprofit where she works, and how she’s navigating the sudden change.
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An awards show for nerds like me! The Shkreli Awards — named for pharma bro Martin Shkreli — 'honor' the worst in American health care. You know we covered it, and interviewed the host, Dr. Vikas Saini. New ep, out today. https://t.co/MYvaK2bNEs
I got to talk about health insurance with @nytimes personal-finance column last week. They picked the right quote: “Like everything else with health care, evaluating insurance options is just extremely annoying.” You know it’s true. Gift link: https://t.co/yfRDqwNkFM
RT @armandalegshow: Charity care can reduce or wipe out hospital bills for a LOT of people. Most hospitals are legally required to offer ch…
