Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Budgeting for Healthcare

Humana's released another of their "Now You Know" type videos; this one is a sort of follow-up to last month's vid about handling catastrophic losses. I'm not sure I agree with their snarky comment that "if your savings get wiped out because of health care costs, you won't be getting a bailout:" what makes them so sure?

Still, I like the way they introduce how to budget for health care costs; one of the things they recommend is choosing Consumer Driven Health Plans. Regular readers are familiar with Bob's characterization of co-pay plans as "Phantom Insurance;" it appears that Humana endorses this principle (that's a good thing):

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