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If you don’t have cash and also you don’t have a job, what are your greatest choices for getting well being care?
It’s 2023 open enrollment season, and numerous Americans are searching for medical insurance plans. And some are weighing the dangers of skipping medical insurance altogether.
One listener wrote to “An Arm and a Leg” about his son, a pupil with no earnings who has aged out of the household’s medical insurance. He requested: If his son buys a plan, would he be signing away the potential of getting charity care (monetary help) at his native hospital?
To reply this query, podcast host Dan Weissmann relied on skilled assist from Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at KFF, and Jared Walker, founding father of Dollar For and an skilled on charity care.
If you need to go deeper:
- “An Arm and a Leg” did a three-part sequence on choosing medical insurance in its First Aid Kit publication. Start right here.
- An episode from final 12 months explored different do’s and don’ts for choosing medical insurance.
- In a 2018 episode, Weissmann talked with one other listener — a “financial therapist” — who had her personal deep questions on medical insurance.
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