She tangled with health insurance every day for 25 years. And loved it. Here's what she can teach us.
An Arm and a Leg
An Arm and a Leg
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🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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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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