The debate on National Healthcare is without a doubt one that ignites people’s passions to a combustible level. Just tune into such talk radio shows as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Neal Boortz and listen as the phones lines light up with passionate callers. It is a topic that played a decisive role in Scott Brown’s historical victory in Massachusetts recently, in which he declared, “I will be the 41st Senator of Massachusetts and will stop National Healthcare.”
The Health Insurance Advocate Radio Show has been on the air in the Midwest for 6 years and the interest in our show has never been stronger. The show devoted specially to health insurance has allowed us to drill down on issues that typically remain unanswered on the average political talk show; myths out of Washington are debunked and facts allowed to replace them. Such myths include the idea that if you get sick your health insurance will cancel your coverage, or you will be singled out for a premium increase. It is on the Health Insurance Advocate Radio Show that we explain why both of these statements are patently false (Federal law prohibits insurance companies from doing either). It is this kind of misinformation that we are able to dispel. Perhaps that is why Cary Hall, host of The Health Insurance Advocate Radio Show, is doing more guest appearances on local talk shows that run from one to three hours like Shanin and Parks, EJ and Ellen and Darla Jaye on News Radio 980 KMBZ or McGraw Milhaven and John Brown on the Big 550 AM KTRS in St. Louis with a constant board full of callers. Whether in St. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita or Springfield, there is an enormous thirst for knowledge regarding health insurance, and the ongoing debate on National Healthcare and what it will mean to the average American when it comes to the cost and the type of coverage that will be available.
These topics and debates are what drive listeners to the phones demanding answers. The trick is to have enough in-depth knowledge to give the answers to the burning questions on these multi-faceted issues. Whether it is regarding how the $128 billion in cuts from HR3962 will affect my Medicare Advantage Plan or why Ezekiel Emanuel is proposing a “best practices” model patterned after the National Institute for Clinical Excellence who ration health care in the UK, people want and need to know the answers. That is what The Health Insurance Advocate Radio Show and it’s host, Cary Hall, bring to it’s listeners and sponsors during every broadcast, because everybody has skin in this game.