{"id":1815,"date":"2005-10-02T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T07:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2005-10-02T07:32:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T07:32:51","slug":"healthia_compar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Healthia: Comparison Shopping, Online, for Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthia.com\/\">a useful idea<\/a>.  California only, for now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>At Healthia, we are tremendous believers in the consumer driven healthcare movement sweeping America. Our goal is to provide America&#8217;s first comparison shopping and research portal for consumer driven healthcare, enabling businesses and their employees to choose health plans and ancillary health benefits objectively and transparently.<br \/>\nAt our beta launch today (2005-Aug-11), we serve the California market with a strong emphasis on HSA compatible plans. We also enable any user across the nation to compare over 50 leading HSA products.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> David Cowan has a useful <a href=\"http:\/\/whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/consumer-driven-healthcare.html\">summary of the movement<\/a> behind this: &#8220;Consumer Directed Healthcare&#8221; or CDH.   Cowan also references this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galen.org\/fileuploads\/Consumerism.pdf\">CDH study<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a useful idea. California only, for now. At Healthia, we are tremendous believers in the consumer driven healthcare movement sweeping America. Our goal is to provide America&#8217;s first comparison shopping and research portal for consumer driven healthcare, enabling businesses and their employees to choose health plans and ancillary health benefits objectively and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}