I help many people each year during open enrollment and it tells us a lot about the broken healthcare system in America.
About The Podcast:
Millions of Americans feel confused and frustrated in their search for quality healthcare coverage.
Between out-of-control costs, countless inefficiencies, a lack of affordable universal access, and little focus on wellness and prevention, the system is clearly in dire need of change.
Hosted by healthcare policy and technology expert Marc S. Ryan, the Healthcare Labyrinth Podcast offers accessible, incisive deep dives on the most pressing issues and events in American healthcare.
Marc seeks to help Americans become wiser consumers and navigate the healthcare maze with more confidence and certainty through The Healthcare Labyrinth website and his book of the same name.
Marc is an unconventional Republican who believes that affordable universal access is a wise and prudent investment. He recommends common-sense solutions to reform American healthcare.
Tune in every week as Marc examines the latest developments in the space, offering analysis, insights, and predictions on the changing state of healthcare in America.
About The Episode:
On this episode, Marc tells us about the people he helped during the open enrollment season. The experiences tell us a lot about the broken healthcare system in America.
Key Takeaways:
Each year I help many people during open enrollment. Many are having major health events and life experiences.
Open enrollment causes great stress and means big financial decision. It is complex and confusing. Major plan terminations have complicated things.
Premiums, deductibles, and cost-sharing are rising. Benefits are being cut back.
The American healthcare system is unreasonably complex and burdensome.
We have far too many lines of business, products, and plan types — a product of an irrational system and a lack of uniform pricing and network strategies.
We are fast becoming a nation of underinsured if we are not uninsured.
It is easy to blame insurers for premium costs and plan benefit designs, but provider prices drive this.
Costs in the system are out of control and we desperately need to tackle price.
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Resources
The Healthcare Labyrinth: A Guide to Navigating Health Plans and Fixing American Health Insurance
