Alternative Health Insurance Options The FI Planner podcast

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If you’re opting out of traditional health insurance, it’s important to understand the risks and benefits of nontraditional health care.

In this episode, Ben and Andrew continue their discussion about health care coverage and dive into two alternative health insurance options.

In this episode, you’ll also hear:

Recognizing the risk of unconventional health care options
Direct Primary Care Model and health share plans
Challenges of leaving conventional insurance coverage

Must-listen moments:

[00:12:32] Because this is non-conventional, there are some inherent risks that are associated with this. There are variations in quality across these different plans and so you need to fully appreciate and recognize that you do need to do your due diligence per any of these suggestions to make sure that even an individual provider is the right provider for you and your family and your needs.

[00:28:36] These two ways of getting health coverage, they are trying to work lockstep in with each other to create a more complete package and alternative to conventional insurance.

[00:36:43] Definitely you want to run the numbers both ways. Take a look at what your healthcare costs would be under a marketplace plan, or how they would be under a D P C plan and a health share plan.

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