Tracks by Dan Weissmann

A doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’

Lessons from “wrestling with a giant”

The bill looked like BS. So she took it to small claims court

Can They Freaking Do That?!? (2023 Edition)

2022 in Review

Like pulling teeth

The best video about health insurance, ever

Health insurance post-Roe, and a grassroots network of abortion funds

A listener asks: Could NOT having insurance be a better deal?

Quick update from Arm and a Leg HQ

California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really

Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades

The Medical-bill Negotiation Lab

The Genetic Testing ‘Bait-and-Switch’

One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System

These docs are trying to kick private equity out of their ER

Credit Where It’s Due

“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)

Sick Note, pt. 2: Dang

Sick Note: Dan has COVID. (He's fine, but ...)

Fighting for the Right to Help

Swimming with sharks

Introducing: Last Day

Meet your new rights under the No Surprises Act

2022 update: How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test (feat. Sarah Kliff)

Why rapid COVID tests are so freaking expensive

Fighting with health insurance is easy (for Jacqueline Fox)

How to avoid the crappiest health insurance

The Insurance Warrior takes on a $61B Company

Meet the Insurance Warrior

We spend 12 million hours a week on the phone with health insurance

Wait, that was legal until now?!?

We just kept right on pushing

The wild backstory of a tiny but crucial Obamacare provision (ft. David Axelrod)

A legendary lawyer sued hospitals for price-gouging their patients. And got his butt handed to him

Who's been trying to cash in on COVID vaccinations? (And how did racism help them out?)

Revisiting insulin, as relevant (and expensive) as ever

A legal strategy for erasing billions in medical debt— that works—from a 60-second video

A former bad guy lawyer shows us how the dark machinery works. And our rights

A 21st-century Christmas Carol: How one Scrooge became a health-care whistleblower

From our reporter's notebook: What we learned in 2020, and what's ahead, with T.K. Dutes

Fight! My family tries to pick health insurance for next year. COVID makes it harder

Andy Slavitt gives us a COVID check-in from 40,000 feet

How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test: with Sarah Kliff of the New York Times

How to Keep Cool in a Tough Moment: A self-defense expert breaks it down

David v Goliath: How to beat a big hospital (using small claims court)

How to handle debt collectors, with the TikTok Mom and a legal expert

Your TikTok Mom has some medical-bill tips, and a hell of a story

A Blast of Hope and Humanity: Here's what perseverance looks like

She tangled with health insurance every day for 25 years. And loved it. Here's what she can teach us

How to fight like a bulldog (against bogus medical bills)

Financial self-defense school, now in session: Make your own luck

The hug shortage, the new abnormal, and the $7,000 COVID test. What we've learned in SEASON-19

How Katelyn survived COVID—without going bankrupt. (Not easy. She has tips.)

From inside the health insurance company: Angst, and advice we can use

The severe, weird recession... in health care. And what it means for our wallets

COVID tests are free, except... when they're not

Like a fire with no one to call: 'We've left no latent capacity in health care.'

If I get COVID-19, what good will my insurance do me?

Makers unite: Speeding PPE to a COVID hospital

Watch Your Back: Outwitting the Back-Pain Industry

Christmas in July

This hospital sued thousands of patients — until a reporter called them out

Can they freaking DO that?!?

Why can't they tell you the price upfront?

Health Care: The Musical

My Neighbor the Health-Care Ninja

Mom vs. Texas

A place where they do health care more cheaply and effectively. (And yes, it’s in the U.S.)

An actor walks into a doctor’s office…

Whoa, this medical device is spying on me. In my sleep. So my insurer can deny me coverage

The surprising history behind insulin’s absurd price (and some hopeful signs in the wild)

Why are drug prices so random? Meet Mr. PBM

How much for an MRI? Well, that depends…

To get paid, hospitals get creative

We thought we had adulted properly

A “deal” on health insurance comes with troubling strings

Why are ER bills so horrible? Sarah Kliff spent a year finding out. (Season One, episode 7)

Why Health Insurance Actually Sucks (Season One, episode 6)

So, Robin Hood’s got an approach to medical bills. (Season One, episode 5)

Why you (and I) will likely pick the wrong health-insurance plan (Season One, episode 4)

How one drug got its $500,000 price tag. (With 99 Percent Invisible– Season One, episode 3)

All the Marbles: One woman’s epic quest for health insurance (Season One, episode 2)

This is Water, and it sucks. Let’s talk. (Season One, episode 1)

A $229,000 medical bill goes to court

Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster

A ‘payday loan’ from a health care behemoth

Credit Card, Please

Wait, what’s a PBM (and how do they work)?

How to Get a Surprise Bill on Your Way to the Hospital

John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 1)

John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 2)

Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists - Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (The Glaucomfleckens)”

“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medical debt

To get health insurance, this couple made a movie

When hospitals sue patients (part 1)

When hospitals sue patients (part 2)

One last tip before 2024

Self defense 101: Keeping your cool while you fight

Wait, is insulin cheaper now?

The Medicare Episode

Son of Medicare: Attack of the Machines

The Hack

We’re digging into “facility fees.” We need your help

Staying on Medicaid seems tougher than it should be

Meet the Middleman’s Middleman

The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee

Don’t get “bullied” into paying what you don’t owe

Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)

“Baby steps” in the fight against facility fees

Can racism make you sick?

Fight health insurance — with help from AI

New lessons from the fight for charity care

Revisiting ‘Christmas In July’

A listener fighting the good fight

The ‘Shkreli Awards’ — for dysfunction and profiteering in health care

How do you deal with wild drug prices?

Big news: Our ‘First Aid Kit’ newsletter is now weekly

A medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the new administration

Winning a two-year fight over a bogus bill

Why ‘The Pitt’ is our fave new drama

A longtime expert puts 2025-so-far in perspective