Health insurer Anthem recruits from Apple to bolster digital plans

"Aneesh Kumar, Anthem's company vice president of commercial products who spent six years as an Apple product manager in 1990."

I guess it must have felt like it was 6 years... :*

Strange, I thought Anthem was dying since they left California.  They're no longer offering any insurance here.

macseeker said:

Strange, I thought Anthem was dying since they left California.  They're no longer offering any insurance here.

Anthem is still offering insurance but it might be limited to corporate, group accounts where they can rake in the big bucks.

Of course, once Medicare For All is implemented, Anthem and all the other health insurance loan shark companies won't have any customers. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, please check how much these insurance companies charge for their insurance. I was paying >$2K/mo for Anthem EPO coverage for myself and my wife. I now pay a third of that for Medicare with a gap plan (that would also go away). This doesn't have anything to do with this article except for the possible poor judgement on the part of Apple employees going over to a company that might dump them at any time.

rob53 said:

macseeker said:

Strange, I thought Anthem was dying since they left California.  They're no longer offering any insurance here.

Anthem is still offering insurance but it might be limited to corporate, group accounts where they can rake in the big bucks.

Of course, once Medicare For All is implemented, Anthem and all the other health insurance loan shark companies won't have any customers. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, please check how much these insurance companies charge for their insurance. I was paying >$2K/mo for Anthem EPO coverage for myself and my wife. I now pay a third of that for Medicare with a gap plan (that would also go away). This doesn't have anything to do with this article except for the possible poor judgement on the part of Apple employees going over to a company that might dump them at any time.

Living both in the Netherlands and California, I can tell the US healthcare system is one big, corrupt, rigged game. Pay premium, get nothing. Health care in the Netherlands, as well as the entire infrastructure behind it, is so much better, the difference is huge! The US feels like it’s either the worst of a developed country, or the best of an undeveloped country. 

rob53 said:

macseeker said:

Strange, I thought Anthem was dying since they left California.  They're no longer offering any insurance here.

Anthem is still offering insurance but it might be limited to corporate, group accounts where they can rake in the big bucks.

Of course, once Medicare For All is implemented, Anthem and all the other health insurance loan shark companies won't have any customers. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, please check how much these insurance companies charge for their insurance. I was paying >$2K/mo for Anthem EPO coverage for myself and my wife. I now pay a third of that for Medicare with a gap plan (that would also go away). This doesn't have anything to do with this article except for the possible poor judgement on the part of Apple employees going over to a company that might dump them at any time.

Your Medicare is cheaper because you (and others) have been paying into it your entire working life.   The basic driver of our out-of-control health care spending is the providers:  Big Pharma and the Large provider organizations.   We keep looking at different ways to juggle paying for those expenses (Obamacare, unregulated insurance, Medicare for all, etc...) -- but that's like a family juggling its bill paying after they have already spent the money. 

That's not to defend insurers or demean Medicare -- just to point out that we need to find ways to attack the source of the problem rather than the result of the problem.