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🗓️ 3 September 2020
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Barbara Faubion got up every day psyched to go to work—which she says puzzled her friends. “They’d go, ‘You love your job?!? You spend your whole day talking to an insurance company. Are you kidding me?’”
She wasn’t kidding. Because she loved to win—and she was really, really good at untangling other people’s health-insurance problems.
She's here to teach us what she knows.
And we'll learn something else too, from a conversation with ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen: Why doesn't EVERY health insurance broker have someone like Barbara on staff? This story he did in 2019 has some big clues.
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0:00.0 | For 25 years selling health insurance in Austin, Texas, Jim Gideon had a secret weapon. |
0:05.1 | Well, not so secret. |
0:06.7 | He made sure every client and every prospective client knew about her. |
0:10.6 | We would tell our client said, listen, you don't need to be on the phone for four hours |
0:15.4 | with Blue Cross Blue Shield. Let us do that. I have a person. |
0:19.9 | That person was Barbara Fabian. |
0:21.9 | I did it as a full-time job for 25 years. |
0:26.3 | No problem too big, no problem too small. |
0:28.6 | Did you lose your prescription drug card? |
0:30.4 | And you're at the pharmacy with a sick kid |
0:31.9 | and they won't deal with you? |
0:33.0 | Call Barbara. She'll fix it. |
0:35.0 | You've got cancer and chemo and a six inch thick pile of bills you don't understand. |
0:40.0 | Barbara will go through them. |
0:42.0 | I mean it didn't matter who you were in the company. |
0:44.1 | You have a claim and you have a problem called Barbara and |
0:47.7 | Barbara took care of it. |
0:48.6 | Met for the way it was. |
0:50.6 | And I loved it. |
0:51.6 | In our last episode we talked with Steve Benasso. |
0:55.0 | He's an HR director who rassals with health insurance every month |
0:58.0 | for the people in his company. |
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