Health Care in America with Andy Schoonover

Are you frustrated with the healthcare system–health insurance, in particular? Andy Schoonover is the Founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, a company that deploys a crowdfunding model to pay its users' medical bills. I am a member of CrowdHealth and have had nothing short of an amazing experience with them thus far. It was a pleasure to speak to Andy and I’m excited to share this episode with you.

 

What you’ll hear: 

 

• Andy’s background and motivation for starting CrowdHealth (1:34)

• Challenges with traditional healthcare systems (6:47)

• The importance of community and the need for economic incentives to encourage healthy lifestyle choices (8:59)

• Understanding healthy insurance and healthcare costs (11:17)

• Alternatives to traditional health insurance (17:48)

• CrowdHealth as a viable alternative, emphasizing the community-based approach and the benefits of lower costs and better healthcare outcomes (33:28)

• The CrowdHealth model (40:10)

• Handling emergency and high medical bills (47:30)

• Future plans for CrowdHealth and expansion (57:25)

• The importance of community and mutual support (1:06:22)

 

Where to learn more: 

 

• CrowdHealth

 

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