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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP358: How Health Insurance Plan Design Can Lead to Patients Sacrificing Needed Care, Their Mental Health, and (Sometimes) Buying Groceries, With Wayne Jenkins, MD
Description: First of all, anybody who thinks that your average citizen in the United States today is unaware of the financial double jeopardy of going to a doctor, going to an emergency room, getting a procedure is sorely mistaken. Americans today are well aware of the financial risk that they are taking by seeking healthcare in this country. To illustrate this point, let me read the first couple of sentences from a New York Times best-selling book review: "The illness narrative, ending in financial ruin and decreased quality of life, has become one of the classic 21st-century American...