It’s All About the Money
It’s all about the money… until it isn’t. Ron Howrigon, a former health insurance executive with some of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., takes us behind the scenes to look at how these companies put profit over patients, why he left the business, and what he’s doing now to help doctors fight the very industry he started in.
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This episode offers valuable insights into the inner workings of health insurance companies and highlights the challenges faced by healthcare providers and patients due to profit-driven motives. Listeners interested in healthcare reform and the dynamics between insurance companies and medical professionals will find this discussion particularly enlightening.
“The personal is political.” Carol Hanish
“Unlike other industries where profit maximization also produces a better product, in healthcare they make money by people not using their product or them not allowing people to use their product. It’s a very perverse incentive. It’s a money driven thing.”
Notes & Resources
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Flatlining with cohost Ron Howrigon
Moral injury plays a major role in this circumstance as well.
