Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
For a lot of us, just thinking about health care and insurance is enough to cause brain freeze. But we're in open enrollment season, so there are a lot of important decisions that need to be made: high deductible or low? HSA? FSA? A platinum plan or a bare bones one?
We're making decisions about our future health, and there's a lot of psychology that goes into these decision. Dr. Peter Ubel, a physician and behavioral scientist with Duke University, joins the show to tell us about the psychology behind our health insurance choices.