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Podcast: Cato Event Podcast
Episode: Can Health Insurance Innovations Reduce Prices and Drive Cost-Effective Care?
Description: Third-party payers, private and public, have difficulty restraining healthcare prices, which are typically opaque and all over the place. A new insurance feature — known as “reference pricing” or “reverse deductibles” — has dramatically reduced prices, made prices more transparent to consumers, and spurred consumers to switch to lower-cost providers, all by making consumers cost-conscious. Please join us as we discuss this new innovation and direction in health-care pricing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.