Kaiser Health News (KHN) announces a new partnership with An Arm and A Leg podcast
May 23 2019 - 10:38AM
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.
Rakesh Singh
Kaiser Family Foundation
(650) 854-9400
rsingh@kff.org
Dan Weissmann
Arm and a Leg
Dan@armandalegshow.com