
Sean Parnell is the author of The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Healthcare Choices in the Age of Obamacare and blogs at www.TheSelfPayPatient.com. He also runs Impact Policy Management, LLC, a public policy consulting firm.
Understanding that bulk buying in health care is largely a myth is necessary to allow for a renewed focus on other, viable options.
“An economist is someone who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” There’s more to the quip than you think.
By keeping sick people out of the market for a month, the administration’s decision will mean insurers have one less month of claims data to use in setting premiums for 2015.
Anybody considering opting out of Obamacare should take the time to know their options and become savvy self-pay patients.