‘An Arm and a Leg’: A Look Again at 2020 — What We Realized and The place We’re Headed

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This episode turns the tables: Host Dan Weissmann will get interviewed about what he realized in 2020 and what’s forward for the present — with T.Okay. Dutes, a radio host and podcast-maker who can also be a former nurse, so she is aware of a factor or two in regards to the well being care system. She chronicled her profession transition in an episode of NPR’s “Life Equipment.”

Throughout their dialog, Dutes shared tales about life earlier than and after medical health insurance. She cash what could possibly be a brand new tagline for “An Arm and a Leg”: “The place there’s cash, there’ll be scams.”

Right here’s a transcript of the episode.

For extra of Dutes’ work, take a look at “Open World,” a podcast she printed not too long ago with Rose Eveleth. The primary episode incorporates a studying by and dialogue with the author N.Okay. Jemisin, who gained a MacArthur “genius” award the day after the present got here out. (Clearly, the MacArthur people have been listening.)

“An Arm and a Leg” is a co-production of Kaiser Well being Information and Public Street Productions.

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