The Many Obstacles of Health Insurance
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Karen Pollitz, senior fellow and co-director of the program on patient and consumer protections in health insurance at KFF, a nonprofit organization focused on health policy, breaks down a new survey from her organization which shows exactly where Americans with different insurance plans hit snags when it comes to coverage.
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| 0:00.0 | We talked on yesterday's show about the corporatization of medicine as experienced by doctors. |
| 0:18.6 | We'll talk now about the corporatization of medicine as experienced by patients, even |
| 0:23.1 | when they're insured, with Karen Pollitz from the Health Policy Organization, KFF. |
| 0:28.4 | She will share the results of a new KFF survey in which Americans described where their |
| 0:33.5 | health insurance falls short. |
| 0:35.2 | KFF is the group formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation. |
| 0:39.5 | Karen Pollitz is Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the program on patient and consumer protections |
| 0:45.2 | in health insurance at KFF. |
| 0:48.2 | Karen, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome to WNYC. |
| 0:50.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:51.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:52.4 | What was this survey that you did? |
| 0:54.5 | What were you trying to learn and who were your respondents? |
| 0:58.3 | But we were trying to learn how health insurance actually works for people when they go to |
| 1:03.4 | use it. |
| 1:04.4 | We had a nationally representative sample of over 3,000 people covered by all of the major |
| 1:11.8 | types of insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, employer-sponsored coverage, and coverage that Obamacare |
| 1:20.1 | policies that people buy on the marketplace. |
| 1:23.5 | We found that most people are rate their coverage favorably overall, about 8 in 10 say it's |
| 1:33.6 | excellent or good. |
| 1:35.6 | Even so, most of them also report about 60 percent that when they actually go to use their |
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