What You Need to Know for Open Enrollment

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of year again when many Americans have to choose a health insurance plan — a decision that will affect, and possibly haunt them throughout the entire year. Worst of all: many are forced to make a choice with imperfect information. To help walk us through open enrollment, Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Elisabeth Rosenthal, the doctor turned health journalist (and author who wrote An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back), who has made it her mission to demystify the process. This episode was produced by Andrea Kane and Sofía Sanchez Showrunner: Amanda Sealy Senior Producer: Dan Bloom Technical Director: Dan Dzula Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there. Welcome to Paging Dr. Gupta. This is one of my favorite shows because I get to answer your questions about health, and today we've decided to tackle a big one.
0:13.1	It's an issue that I know is on many of your minds this time of year, and frankly, it can be even spookier than Halloween.
0:20.7	I am talking, of course, about open enrollment. Okay. and frankly, it can be even spookier than Halloween.
0:24.2	I am talking, of course, about open enrollment.
0:31.6	And if you're anything like me, you might be doing your best to avoid even thinking about this.
0:36.6	What I worry about right now, and particularly in this season of renewing insurance,
0:40.2	is that people avoid going to see doctors and avoid going to the hospital because they're just afraid of the bad experiences
0:46.5	they've had.
0:49.5	To help me explain it, I've invited Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal.
0:54.0	She is a doctor. She's a journalist.
0:55.9	She's an author like me. She spent 22 years at the New York Times. Now she's senior contributing
1:01.3	editor at KFF Health News. She is the best-selling author of a book called An American Sickness,
1:07.8	how health care became big business and how you can take it back.
1:12.7	I'm just trying to figure out how to make it better for people, which has kind of been
1:17.0	my journalistic mission for decades. She will take us through the ins and outs of open enrollment,
1:24.0	hopefully helping you get through it right after this short break.
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