Emily Pisacreta
Senior Producer, An Arm and a Leg
About
Emily is a journalist, writer, and audio producer based in New York City. In addition to her work at An Arm and a Leg, she produces podcasts for the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Geneseo and Columbia Journalism School, where she focused on health care reporting and radio and podcast production.
Podcasts
Stories
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California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.
California has put up $100 million to produce its own insulin. How's it going to work? (IS it going to work?)
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The best video about health insurance, ever
... and how it came to be.
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Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.
Lots of seniors have to pay many thousands of dollars for drugs—even tens of thousands—or do without life-saving medicine. That’s finally going to change.
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“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)
A new golden age is dawning, and it starts where the sun don’t shine.
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Wait, that was legal until now?!?
Hospitals in Maryland were suing patients over bills that should’ve been forgiven. It wasn’t illegal. Until now. How a coalition changed that. This year. Plus, our friends at Dollar For build their bill-crushing army, one Zoom training at a time.
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Introducing: Half Vaxxed
Last year we told the story — part caper, part tragedy — of how Philly handed off its COVID vaccine program to a wannabe tech bro right out of college. Now, the reporters who broke that story have made a terrific podcast of their own, Half Vaxxed.
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From our reporter's notebook: What we learned in 2020, and what's ahead, with T.K. Dutes
This episode turns the tables: Host Dan Weissmann gets interviewed about what he's learned this year, and what's ahead for the show— with T.K. Dutes, an ace radio host and podcast-maker ... who was a nurse in a previous life, so she knows a t...