Health Insurers Spying On You And Raising Your Rates
Wellness insurance companies are screwing you over! Cenk Uygur as well as Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, simplify. TYT has a brand-new audio network: https://tyt.com/audio/
Learn more here:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/17/629441555/health-insurers-are-vacuuming-up-details-about-you-and-it-could-raise-your-rates
” To an outsider, the elegant cubicles at a June health and wellness insurance coverage sector celebration in San Diego, Calif., aren’t really compelling: a handful of firms pitching “way of living” information and also salesmen proclaiming jargony phrases like “social determinants of wellness.”
Dig deeper and also the effects of just what they’re marketing might offer lots of people time out: a future in which everything you do– the things you purchase, the food you consume, the time you spend seeing TELEVISION– could help determine how much you pay for health insurance coverage.
With little public examination, the medical insurance market has signed up with pressures with data brokers to vacuum up individual information about numerous countless Americans, consisting of, chances are, many viewers of this tale.
The business are tracking your race, education and learning degree, TV routines, marriage condition, total assets. They’re collecting exactly what you post on social networks, whether you’re behind on your expenses, exactly what you get online. They feed this details into difficult computer system formulas that spit out predictions regarding just how much your health and wellness treatment can cost them.”
Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian
Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian
***
The Largest Online News Show in the World. Organized by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian.
Sign up for The Young Turks on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks
Like The Young Turks on Facebook: http://facebook.com/theyoungturks
Follow The Young Turks on Twitter: http://twitter.com/theyoungturks
Purchase TYT Merch: http://www.shoptyt.com
Download audio and also video of the complete two hour show on-demand + the members-only blog post video game program by coming to be a member at http://www.tytnetwork.com/join/. Your subscription sustains the everyday operations and is crucial for our ongoing success and development.
Youthful Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or anarchical member of an organization, movement, or political event. 2. A young person that rebels versus authority or societal assumptions.( American Heritage Dictionary).
