What Does Health Insurance Procrastination Have to do With Bruce Springsteen?

bruce_springsteenIn this Marketplace report, Dan Gorenstein explores the role procrastination played in all the last minute efforts to sign up for health insurance through Obamacare this year.  Read on to see how I managed to work “the Boss” into the story.

Updated Monday, Dec. 23: The Obama administration announced on Monday it was giving a one-day grace period to consumers shopping for health insurance under Obamacare. The deadline to sign up for a plan on the health care exchanges was supposed to be today — but has been extended until Dec. 24.
It’s been a lousy past few days for Joey Cardella.
I feel like I’m just stumbling over this stuff,” he says. “It’s just so frustrating.”
Cardella, a freelance photographer, is talking about looking through his options for insurance under the new federal healthcare law. At 29 and healthy, he’s the sort of customer that every insurer lusts for. But he’s just not sure anything of his options is a good fit for him… (Read more here)

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