Your phone might stick around wherever you go, but your medical care may not follow suit. When the time comes for you to move to a new state, change jobs, or both, your health plans and doctors would need to change as well. Insurance plans and medicine are (mostly) locked within state lines. Closed-loop healthcare built in the 20th century is part of why our current medical system gets expensive. Yet we live in a connected world where it’s perfectly normal to work from anywhere and move state-to-state like we’re crossing the street. In this pod, I’ll make our fragmented market simpler to understand so you know how to get medical care organized on the go.
