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What the differences are between HMO, PPO, medicaid, regular insurance, and the like? I am completely in the dark about this stuff! I don't know if they ask questions like this in interviews, but I figured I would try to figure it out anyways. Thanks!

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I'd read the wikipedia articles. It sounds like a PPO is a variant of an HMO with special rules attached (for profit purposes obviously...)
 
What the differences are between HMO, PPO, medicaid, regular insurance, and the like? I am completely in the dark about this stuff! I don't know if they ask questions like this in interviews, but I figured I would try to figure it out anyways. Thanks!

They generally don't ask questions like this. Don't bother - you'll probably get some kind of crash course in this at some point in med school.
 
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