Episode #37: How to (Kind of) Fix Interstate Healthcare

Your phone might stick around wherever you go, but your medical care may not follow suit. When the time comes for you to move to a new state, change jobs, or both, your health plans and doctors would need to change as well. Insurance plans and medicine are (mostly) locked within state lines. Closed-loop healthcare built in the 20th century is part of why our current medical system gets expensive. Yet we live in a connected world where it’s perfectly normal to work from anywhere and move state-to-state like we’re crossing the street. In this pod, I’ll make our fragmented market simpler to understand so you know how to get medical care organized on the go.

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