Demystifying Health Insurance and Building Alternatives to the Status Quo

<p>Josh Jeffreys is a Managing Director with Risk Strategies.</p> <p>While merging companies with his business partner in 2010, Josh began working on his MBA which gave him the opportunity to learn the US healthcare reform implemented March 23, 2010 inside and out. He views the biggest barrier to change in the healthcare industry as status quo; thinking there are no alternatives. There are always alternatives and he is dedicated to presenting options that offer better care and reduce overall costs to employers.</p> <p>In this episode….</p> <p>Josh Jeffreys started out as a soccer player in college but he realized he couldn’t make a living playing soccer and switched to selling life insurance. Early on in life he watched his father and father’s friends lose their jobs with the Hoover company which motivated him to not want to work for someone else. The entrepreneurial drive served him well and he found a business partner and began working on a way to reshape the structure of health insurance for employers.</p> <p>Josh used the US healthcare reform of March 2010 for the basis of almost everything he did; he learned the reform inside and out whereas his competitors were spending money trying to fight it. He believes an ideal would be a community-based structure where a person’s safety net shouldn’t have to change just because their job did. He challenges the status quo with the work he does.</p> <p>In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and Josh Jeffreys dive into the health insurance industry and examine how Josh came to work in it and why. Josh explains the high rate of medical bankruptcies in the US and how they come about, he breaks down why the industry contains so much price gouging, and he lays out the basis of how he approaches insurance from a different perspective. Martin and Josh discuss the ways in which access and cost are barriers to healthcare and also examine Josh’s business model.</p>