Health care open enrollment is here — and you probably have questions.
We’re answering your health care questions
Trying to figure out how to pick a health plan? Wondering why the health care system is so complicated? Vox senior correspondent Dylan Scott answers your questions.
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Dylan Scott covers health for Vox, guiding readers through the emerging opportunities and challenges in improving our health. He has reported on health policy for more than 10 years, writing for Governing magazine, Talking Points Memo, and STAT before joining Vox in 2017.
This week, we sought to elucidate some of the more confounding issues Americans encounter during this strange, baffling annual ritual. Among them:
- Why you’re stuck with your employer’s health plan
- Who thought flexible spending accounts were a good idea?
- Why even Medicare can’t save you from open enrollment
- Why dental insurance isn’t a scam — but isn’t really insurance either
Nevertheless, you’ll need to pick a health plan this fall — we have a guide for that too — because open enrollment is here to stay, thanks to a combination of inertia, complacency, and the influence of the health care industry.
As a thank-you to our recurring contributors (that’s you!), I’ll be answering questions about the American health care system, our stories, and how we reported them. Drop your questions in the comment box below and on Thursday, October 19, I’ll pop in to answer as many as I can.
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