Oh wow

This kind of work will be more necessary than ever in 2026,

… and we could really use your help to keep it going, and growing.

We’re a tiny, independent media outlet with a big impact.

Please do pitch in with a donation. I promise we’ll put it to amazing use.

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This has been my dream for An Arm and a Leg for years: to provide a nexus where folks can learn to help themselves *and each other* and spread that knowledge around.

That dream is starting to come true, thanks to so many people.

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And we’ve made a page for anyone who wants to:

* print, distribute, or adapt the print version
* pass around links to the mobile-friendly version
* help us keep improving the guide and the project.

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And now there are two new versions of Thomas’s medical-bill resource guide:

* A listener who’s a UX designer made a more-accessible PDF.

* We’ve made a mobile-friendly version, so patients can instantly access everything, wherever they are.

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By fall, the resource guide was looking sharper. We shared the updated version

… and talked with the med student who’d been developing it, Thomas Sanford, on the podcast.

He’d published it w a Creative Commons license, so anyone could reproduce and adapt it.

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Our med-student friend took all that input, actually *made* a one-sheet resource guide, and started handing it to patients.

He sent it to us for critique. We shared with readers— and posted a sign-up form so folks could volunteer to help buff it up.

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Readers sent in some great resources, including a couple websites that— as it happened — people in our community had built as part of their jobs (one for the federal govt, the other from the nonprofit PIRG).

We were stoked to share them.

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Last spring, a Brooklyn med student wrote in:

He’d been giving patients cards with links to info on financial assistance (via @dollarfor.bsky.social, which he’d learned about from us).

He wondered if we had something more robust— and we asked readers for ideas.

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Awesome list (and great adds in the comments)!
Adding a plug for my tiny, audience-supported @armandalegshow.bsky.social
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Also: yes— thank you so much for chiming in here!

So, any other jabs I’ve been meaning to get — Shingrix dose 2 for me, a final meningitis booster for my kid— might be prudent to grab before 9/18?

For a deeper dive -- including templates for appeal letters, and tips from people who do these appeals for a living -- @armandalegshow.bsky.social has a collection right here:
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