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The gloves (think gardening glove) take some getting use to, so be aware and prepare for some banged up fingers while getting used to catching :)
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A small group health plan isn't likely to be much less expensive, if any, and the small business health exchange SHOP (CoveredCA, Healthcare.gov, etc), the plans are pretty much the same individual plans.
The Affordable Care Act defined Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) which are basically a way to ensure that common and critical types of health care are guaranteed to be covered, along with a variety of other market making aspects (individual mandate, pre-existing conditions, etc). Prior to this, people could sell "health insurance" which covered few services, had strict amount limits, and could deny claims for various unclear reasons.
If you're going to earn less than $50k in 2017, then you'll qualify for a subsidy on your plan. If not, your options are going uninsured (potentially getting a tax fine at the end of the year), or enrolling in an individual market plan.
Stride Health, https://www.stridehealth.com helps consumers enroll in plans through CoveredCA and Healthcare.gov, as well as directly through the health plans. * Prices are the same you'll find anywhere else (they're set by law). I'd encourage you to try it, and hopefully it will take some of the headache out of it. * There's a support line with a very knowledgable staff if you have more questions about the impact of your income earning for the next year, or any more questions about your health care needs. * We'll also be there to help you throughout the year, and make sure to close the loop with your taxes the following year.
Key Roles: DevOps/Infrastructure engineer, Scala and Nodejs platform engineers, iOS developers and mobile tech lead, UI/Design developer, Infrastructure Product Manager.
Passions: Consumer products, using data to help individuals make smart decisions and stay right-side-up, working in positive+feedback driven organization.
Stride empowers independent workers to make intelligent health coverage and financial decisions, helping them to stay healthy and focused on achieving their personal goals.
We're looking for passionate people to fill a variety of product-focused software engineering roles, ranging from front-end to dev-ops and data science. Some of our base technologies include:
front-end/web: angularjs, nodejs, redis
backend: scala/spray, postgres, cassandra, elastic-search
dev-ops: chef, aws/ec2/opswork
data science: python, pandas, spark
Reach out through https://jobs.lever.co/stridehealth or email anna@A user builds a health profile, and we use that information to predict their medical costs for the year and recommend a best-fit plan. After that, we're in it for the long haul: our personal support team is on call to help the user manage their health wisely, day-in, day-out. We're also well on our way to launching additional products that will evolve us into a broader HR support structure for independent workers.
Striders work hard, sweat the details, and enjoy life away from our computers together, too. We're looking for true team players that are passionate about our product, loyal to our users, and excited to heal a sick industry.
"the campaign generated about twice as much revenue as R.B. spent on the ads"
Which is put into light by the channel cost comparison from the article: “I can go to television at a quarter the price.”
Seems like the classic media sales approach is alive and well, and that it's boosting Facebook's revenues. The issue is that the way that Facebook shares data (or rather doesn't) makes meaningful analysis possible. "the [Facebook] ad strategists were saying they wanted him to spend money to show ads to every American woman 45 and older on Facebook — as many as 32 million people."
no kidding...
A bigger challenge is ensuring people get the right coverage for their situation and understand the plan and provider network they're buying.
Disclaimer: I work at Stride Health, we help individuals buy plans in-context of their doctors, drugs, and health conditions they're treating. We're also hiring, sans the $840MM budget (https://stridehealth.com/jobs)
Covered is consumer-focused health startup focused on personalizing health plan recommendation for individuals and families. We're hiring for + Sr. Software Engineer - API Services (Scala) + Rich Data Engineer (Python, strong DB experience)
Check us out at http://www.covered.co
Personalized Consumer Health Tech:
http://www.gocovered.com/#/jobs
Sr. Software Engineer: Scala + REST API, Rich Data Engineer: Python + DB Ninja, Lead Designer, Digital Marketing Manager