Company Profile

Company Description:

An Arm and a Leg is a podcast about the cost of health care that’s more entertaining, empowering and useful than enraging, terrifying and depressing. Our slogan: “We’re screwed, but we’re together. Let’s talk.” 

The show takes inspiration from smarty-pants storytelling/explainer classics like 99 Percent Invisible and Planet Money (both of which have run our stories), and from projects that build community via intimate conversations about sometimes-difficult, personal stories — like Death Sex & Money, Terrible Thanks for Asking, and Last Day.  

We’re also inspired by projects that respond to questions from the public — like WBEZ’s Curious City and its many descendents— and even solve problems, like Reply-All’s “Super Tech-Support.” So listener stories, questions and voices play a big part in lots of our episodes.

An Arm and a Leg is audio journalism as storytelling, consumer advocacy, and community- building. So, a little ambitious.

We seek to engage a diverse public, and we’re tackling a subject that hits people across many divides in American life; we’ll do a much better job and be much more successful if the show is made by the most-diverse possible group of people. We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds, races, genders and abilities to apply for any positions here.