How to Buy Better Healthcare for Less

  • How to Buy Better Healthcare for Less

    Posted by IMA-HelenT on August 4, 2026 at 4:44 pm EDT

    You can price a car, a house, or a plane ticket before you commit a dollar. Healthcare asks something no other major purchase does: agree to services blind, sign whatever is put in front of you, and learn what it cost weeks or months later, when the bill arrives.

    Most of us were taught that insurance is the shield against those bills. Yet premiums keep climbing, deductibles keep growing, and the surprise charges keep coming. This episode of the IMA Weekly Show asks a different question: what if the best way to save money on healthcare is learning how to buy care itself?

    This episode pairs two guests who know the system from opposite sides. Dr. Mollie James is a surgeon and critical care specialist who left hospital medicine to build a direct care practice. Christine Price has spent three decades inside the health plan industry, building employer plans without PPO networks and challenging hospital bills line by line. Between them, they map where the money actually goes and how to stop sending it there.

    Watch it here: https://imahealth.org/how-to-buy-better-healthcare-for-less/

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