The Health Shopper

Vimo.com has been inundated over the last 24 hours with thousands of doctor reviews – we continue to get about two a minute.  Not sure what the secret of this is yet, but we are still looking into it. Some consumers have asked us if our T-shirt offer is for real and if we will really ship them T-shirts for entering a review about their doctor. The answer is *yes* , the offer is absolutely for real.  However, please note:

– You must post a review that has at least a hundred characters.
– We take about three to four weeks to actually ship you a T-shirt.
– A review does not qualify if it has profanity, or is utterly irrelevant (as in, you write “yada yada” a few times to qualify for the review).
 
Any questions? Please drop us a line.

Review on.

For free markets to work well, we need open information and analysis available to consumers. One step in that direction is to make side-by-side comparisons available as we do on our site each day. A second approach is to build on our data and provide consumers some editorial analysis. To that end, we published a research report on the wide disparity between fees that banks charge customers for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

We found that little correlation exists between higher fees and higher interest rates, emphasizing the need for consumers to do research before they settle on an HSA and probably implying (although this was not a focus of our study) that fees have more to do with transaction support and service levels than interest rates. As mentioned in our press release, this is the first of many reports we intend to conduct over a period of time, each highlighting a different aspect of the consumer-driven healthcare landscape. As always, your feedback and thoughts are welcome.