These days, we’re used to shopping around and getting price information for just about anything within a few clicks! But, it’s not that easy with healthcare. Unlike shopping for clothes, food and most other professional services, it can be tricky to figure out how much different healthcare services cost, or which part of those costs you’ll have to cover out of pocket.
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If we are ever going to get healthcare costs under control here in the U.S., it’s clear that we will have to get more Americans to develop relationships with primary care providers (PCPs).
Note: I originally published this post in February 2017. A lot has changed in the healthcare marketplace since then. And a lot has not. I decided to update this post to see whether I could find a healthcare system two years later.
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Healthcare is expensive. We know that and we are trying to do something about it. Here at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, we are using DATA to solve real healthcare problems.
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Congratulations! You have managed to hang in through two parts of a rather elaborate series in which I’m trying to show what could happen if courts uphold the current court decision in Texas v U.S. declaring the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.
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PART 1: Your Health Insurance Benefits and Protections
I spend a ton of time out in public, doing presentations, speeches, interviews and compliance seminars and I get bombarded with questions about the healthcare topic du jour.
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