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(32,686 posts) Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:32 PM Jun 1

Telemarketers' New Trick to Sell Bare-Bones Health Plans - Big Take

May 8, 2025 The Big Take | Bloomberg Podcasts
A few years ago, a former sitcom writer came up with a weird way to sell Americans cheap health plans, using a loophole in the Affordable Care Act. More than 100,000 households have signed up, but many say the coverage isn’t what they were promised.

On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg reporter Zach Mider shares what he learned while investigating the plans and what it could mean for the American health-care system if more people turn to them.

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Telemarketers' New Trick to Sell Bare-Bones Health Plans - Big Take (Original Post) SouthBayDem Jun 1 OP

PEOPLE: You need to read this. It's a complicated con-job that your loved ones/friends.. chouchou Jun 1 #1

This is just what we all predicted the slightlv Jun 1 #2

chouchou

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1. PEOPLE: You need to read this. It's a complicated con-job that your loved ones/friends..

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Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:19 PM

Jun 1

...can easily fall down the proverbial rabbit hole.

Thank you, SouthBayDem.

slightlv

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2. This is just what we all predicted the

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Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:27 PM

Jun 1

Republicans' health plans would all be like. It was not hard to extrapolate, even back in the days before the ACA. It's exactly the type of plans that GW was pushing.

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