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Impatient: To HMO or to PPO... that's the question
A doctor makes an ultrasound to a patient at the maternity of the Argenteuil hospital, in a Paris suburb, on July 22, 2013.
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Impatient: To HMO or to PPO... that's the question
There are certainly a lot of things to consider when deciding between an HMO and a PPO.
It's an issue Southern California Public Radio's Rebecca Plevin has been pondering as part of a project she's been working on called Price Check.
She's been fielding plenty of emails from our listeners, about their childbirth experiences and from what she's seen, HMOs may be the way to go, at least when it comes to price.
To find out the whole story click on the audio embedded at the top of the post or swing on over to Rebecca's blog for her breakdown.
Rebecca joins us every week to talk about our consumer health segment, "Impatient."