Forbes November 11, 2019
An Arm and a Leg, is a podcast, entering its third season this month, about something on people’s minds—the rising cost of health care. The podcast is helmed by host and executive producer, Dan Weissman, who developed the idea while he was an on air radio reporter for WBEZ in Chicago.
I spoke with Dan about the evolution and meaning of the podcast (with an average of 50K downloads per episode and growing).
EE: Dan, where do you get your stories?
DW: It doesn’t take much, because the stories are everywhere. I like to cover the everyday story—I’m doing this test or this procedure, does my insurance cover it? What are behind us taking those random $500 blood...