Jonquilyn Hill

This episode was produced by Hadi Mawagdi.

It was edited by Jenny Lawton, fact-checked by Melissa Hirsch, and engineered by David Tadashore.

Miranda Kennedy is our executive producer, and I'm your host, Jonquilin Hill.

Thank you so much for listening.

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It feels pretty bad to be in healthcare in America.

It makes me want to move.

You guys, it's time.

We got to choose our health insurance again.

Gonna be honest, I've been off my parents' insurance for almost a decade now, and I still call my mom to try to figure out which plan is best for me.

Because somehow, it keeps getting more complicated.

So if the HR specialist isn't helpful, who else are we supposed to ask on what these policies mean for us?

Well, Natalie, we got you.

I'm Jonquan Hill, and today on Explain It to Me from Vox, we're going to make sense of open enrollment together.

What all those acronyms mean, why we're paying so much more this year, and whether there's an alternative that actually works.

First up, I talked to Lisa Jarvis.

She writes about healthcare for Bloomberg, and she says that like with any major decision, the key to choosing insurance is to start by looking within.

I would say the first thing to think about is how you use your healthcare.

Are you going to the doctor regularly?