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ποΈ 8 December 2021
β±οΈ 64 minutes
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0:00.0 | Like a mall is here, we got a special bit before we start the show today with Andy |
0:15.5 | Schoonover, who is the CEO of crowd health. |
0:17.8 | I've never done this before, but since Andy's product is something that I thought is of |
0:22.2 | interest to a lot of you and bears explaining at length, I was happy to bring him on to discuss |
0:27.5 | this now. |
0:28.7 | What crowd health does is provides market based alternatives to the corporate government |
0:34.6 | health care system. |
0:36.0 | Andy, can you explain why you had this idea and how it works as an alternative to traditional |
0:42.4 | health care? |
0:43.4 | Yeah, sure. |
0:44.4 | So I had sold my company and it was rolling off of that. |
0:47.0 | And so like many Americans was not getting my health insurance to my employer. |
0:51.1 | And so I went to healthcare.gov, which I thought was my only alternative. |
0:55.4 | My wife and my two girls got on as $1,200 a month. |
0:59.4 | And it worked great until I actually had to use it. |
1:01.4 | So my little one was having a recurring ear infection. |
1:04.7 | So we go to the ear nose and throat doctor who said she needs tubes in her ears, go to |
1:08.6 | the local hospital, get tubes in her ears, got the bill for $8,000 for 15 minute procedure. |
1:15.6 | And the health insurance plan said they weren't going to cover it because it was medically |
1:21.0 | unnecessary. |
1:22.4 | Even though we have an ear nose and throat doctor looking into her ears, she had a perforated |
1:26.1 | ear drum and said it was medically unnecessary. |
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