DIP Ep 656: The Clutch Health Insurance Podcast (Part 2)

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All right. Welcome. Uh, my name is Divine. Uh, this is episode six hundred and fifty-six of the Divine Intervention podcast. And in today's podcast, we're gonna be continuing the series on health insurance, right? So again, this is the clutch health insurance podcast. This is gonna be s- uh, series two. Again, this stuff is pretty high yield to know for your exams. And we're gonna start off with a discussion of, uh, you know, so we talked about like the government stuff last time. Uh, but again, I'm gonna delve a little deeper into some topics and talk about payment models today, right? They really love to test those things on the exams. And one thing you wanna pay attention to today is, as I explain, I will discuss, hey, how can they test this, right? How can they test this, right? So just kinda keep those nuggets in mind as we go through this podcast, right? So, you know, I think I'm gonna-- it makes sense to talk about the Affordable Care Act for a bit, right? So this is something we know that came in twenty ten, right? You know, during the reign of, uh, President Obama. Um, you know, many people call it Obamacare, right? Again, I'm not gonna get political here. My job is just to teach you concepts for your exams, right? But it made a really, really big change in the US insurance system, you know, compared to, you know, it's probably one of the biggest changes that has, that has ever happened literally since, you know, Medicare, Medicaid were, were created, right? So what are some of the key Affordable Care Act, and I'm gonna keep calling it ACA, uh, provisions you should know for your exams? Well, the, the, the very first thing is that, again, it, it, it had this, uh, thing that it provided called guaranteed