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News Release
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Thursday,
May 23, 2019
Kaiser Health News (KHN) announces a
new partnership with An Arm and A Leg
podcast
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & CHICAGO, Il. -- KFF
(Kaiser Family Foundation) and Public Road Productions announce that Season 2
of An Arm and A Leg podcast will be co-produced in
partnership with Kaiser Health News (KHN), KFF’s editorially independent
national health and health policy newsroom.
KHN will co-produce the second season of An Arm and A Leg, which debuts June 4. In the
first season of the podcast, Dan Weissmann, creator and host of the health
care podcast, dug up revealing and surprising stories that helped consumers
learn more about the complicated world of health care costs. In season two,
Weissmann digs into how we’ve ended up with such crazy prices— starting with
hospital services like an MRI, prescription drugs in general, and the deep
story behind the insane price of insulin, starting with its discovery almost
100 years ago. This season is a public conversation, starting with stories,
tips and questions from listeners.
Weissmann is a veteran reporter for outlets
like Marketplace, 99% Invisible, Planet
Money, and Chicago’s WBEZ. His work reflects sophisticated reporting, an
engaging narrative voice, and a knack for accurate breakdowns of complex
subjects.
Through this partnership, KHN and Weissmann will
share expertise and resources to explore and explain our often puzzling
health care system in season 2. KHN will also produce stories and other
multimedia content building on the themes and stories featured in the
season’s episodes. An Arm and A Leg episodes are available for free on
Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and Spotify, as well as at
KHN.org. Check out the trailer for Season 2, and follow the show on social at @armandalegshow.
“I'm delighted and proud to get the chance to
partner with these journalists whose work I admire, and from whom I've
already learned so much,” said Weissmann.
“We’re excited to pair KHN’s health reporting
expertise with An Arm and a Leg’s creative and powerful storytelling
capacity,” said Drew Altman, KFF’s CEO and KHN’s founding publisher. “This
new partnership plays to both our and Public Road’s strengths and will help
us each produce more impactful journalism that reaches a wider audience than
either of us could alone.”
About An Arm and A Leg:
Dan Weissmann designed An Arm and A Leg to
be entertaining, empowering and even useful — to help us all get a bit less
scared and confused by the crazy cost of health care. The second season is a
public conversation, starting with stories, tips and questions from
listeners. Follow the show on social at @armandalegshow.
About The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and
Kaiser Health News:
Filling the need for trusted information on national
health issues, KFF (the Kaiser Family Foundation) is a nonprofit organization
based in San Francisco, California. KHN is an editorially independent program
of KFF and is the nation’s leading and largest health and health policy
newsroom, producing stories that run on khn.org and are published by hundreds of news
organizations across the country.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019
Kaiser Health News (KHN) announces a new partnership with An Arm and A Leg podcast
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