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As we settle into the new year, we have two small doses of good news.
First, a new federal rule could help cut through . Host Dan Weissmann talked about the rule — which requires hospitals to make public the prices they negotiate with insurers — in a short conversation with his former public-radio colleague, Niala Boodhoo, for the daily-news podcast “Axios Today.”
You’ll find more detail on that rule in , whose reporting about a $50,000 “air ambulance” ride formed the core of about how consumers get squeezed by insurers on one side and providers on the other.
Later in the episode, a listener describes how he used what he learned from “An Arm and a Leg” to head off an insurance nightmare.
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