This is "An Arm and a Leg" — a show about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can maybe do about it. I’m Dan Weissmann. I’m a reporter, and I like a challenge.

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Zdon's prosthetic arm and leg give him mobility. He's self-sufficient, drives, cuts his grass, cooks, and cleans. He's very active. The arm is very high-tech.

Finally last week, to the team’s visible relief, Theismann broke his leg. A tall, blond Californian with a high-caliber arm, Jay Schroeder, 24, came in against the Giants and won the game.

Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza was trapped in an arm-bar by up-and-coming middleweight Andre Muniz that fractured the 41-year-old Souza’s right arm during their fight at UFC 262.

Last month, an alligator bit off the leg of a 72-year-old man at a Florida RV resort in Titusville. And in March, a man was attacked by a 7-foot, 10-inch long, alligator at his doorstep in Daytona ...