Once a week, the Insurance Podcast Roundup brings you brand new episodes of podcasts that talk about topics that are related to insurance. Listening to these episodes is a good way to stay on top of the news that could affect the insurance policies that protect your family.
NPR has an episode of “Weekend Edition Saturday” that was released on May 5, 2012. This episode is called “In New Orleans, A Health Clinic for Working Musicians”. Many of the musicians who are preforming at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival do not have health insurance. The New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic provides health care for them, and educates them about exercise, diabetes prevention, and other health related issues.
PBS NewsHour has a video that was released on May 3, 2012. This video is called “High-Deductible Health Plans: Your Questions Answered”. The video, and the blog that goes with it, answers several common questions that people have about high deductible health insurance plans. This content is being offered online only.
The Clark Howard Show has an episode that was released on May 4, 2012. One of the topics discussed in Hour One of this podcast talks about employers who are doing health care incentives and punishments. The new trend is “red light, green light”. Certain behaviors will allow an employee to be rewarded with bonuses. This includes getting an annual checkup, walking, etc. Employees who smoke will be punished with a charge added to the cost of their health insurance premiums. It is a form of behavior based rewards and punishments, and has become a trend.
Citizen Action of Wisconsin has an episode that was released on May 4, 2012. This episode is called “Walker Cuts 17,000 Off BadgerCare – Battleground Wisconsin #45”. A panel of people discuss the topic of Governor Walker cutting 17,000 Wisconsinites off BadgerCare. BadgerCare is a health care cost-reimbursement program that was available to citizens of Wisconsin who had an income that was too high for them to qualify for Medicaid coverage and who had employers that didn’t provide health care coverage. This topic starts around 13:55.
Ethical Society of Saint Louis has an episode that was released on May 6, 2012. This episode is called “Podcast Health Care Sunday, “Private Insurance – Induced Stress Disorder” by Dr. Carol Paris”.
This episode features Dr. Carol Paris, who is a Maryland psychiatrist and an advocate for single payer health care. She discusses Private Insurance – Induced Stress Disorder, or PIISD. It is an adaptation of the criteria used to describe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to describe the symptoms in trying to deal with the bureaucracy of private health insurance or to cope with being sick and uninsured.
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