New book takes on health insurance industry and offers tech tools

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. It’s a new book with a pretty provocative title.. Insured to Death: How Health Insurance Screws Over Americans- And How We Take it Back. Author Neal Shah is the founds of CareYaya and co-founder of Counterforce Health…which uses AI to help people appeal health insurance claim denials. It is fast…and free for individuals. On the What’s Next, Living Longer Better Smarter podcast…Shah said the technology can help to level the playing field…“I share examples like this throughout the book of how AI is employed by insurers. How doctors are reviewing some of these, if they are reviewing them, for on average 1.2 seconds.”The book outlines many examples and how families can fight back…using technology. The tools for that are at CounterforceHealth.org.You can find us at Techstination.com. I’m Fred Fishkin.