07.12.24 Clark Answers His Critics on Clark Stinks / PBMs and Your Rx Costs

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Friday - Clark Stinks day! Christa shares Clark Stinks posts with Clark. Submit yours at Clark.com/ClarkStinks. Also, Clark discusses how he handles prescriptions in order to save money, and announces our new cash back credit card tool at Clark.com Clark Stinks: Segments 1 & 2 PBMs and Your Rx Costs: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: CREDIT CARDS - Clark.com Why Our Travel Expert Thinks This New Tool Is a “Game Changer” 7 Ways To Maximize Credit Card Rewards in 2024 ICS® & CDARS Can I Trust the FDIC’s Recommendations on Getting Insured for More Than $250,000 at a Single Bank? Warning: Why You Should Never Buy Visa Gift Cards What Does Clark Howard Think About Vanguard’s New Cash Deposit Feature? NYTimes: The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs NYTimes: What to Do if You’re Overpaying for Prescriptions Amazon Pharmacy expands $5 monthly subscription to Medicare patients 10 Ways To Save on Prescription Drugs Will Mark Cuban's Prescription Company Really Save You Money? Team Cuban Card - Home Hospitals Are Refusing to Do Surgeries Unless You Pay in Full First Thank you for listening today, Clarkies! If you want to be part of our “Clarkie” segment, call 404-981-2071 to leave a comment or story. We may play it during a future episode! Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Public.com+Public Investing Disclosure: Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show where our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you to make better financial decisions in your life.
0:17.0	Now we're going to start out today's show with my favorite opportunity to learn, to break bad habits, to enlarge my mind, Clark Stinks.
0:28.8	I'm also going to discuss how I've changed the way I get my prescriptions to save money and one thing I want to talk about
0:38.1	before we go on to Clark Stinks is our new cash back credit card tool at Clark.com. So we have a team of people that now
0:52.0	create different tools to help you make decisions that are hard,
0:57.6	that you just go by hunches and now we have the ability where we're putting up more and more calculators and tools where you can
1:05.3	put in variables and you see instead of a hunch or instead of going with inertia in your life you
1:11.7	see oh oh I should be doing this not that or I thought
1:16.9	that would be better but it's not so we're making that possible so with the new credit card tool you can see if you're somebody
1:27.4	pays your balances in full that to once a reward card or cash unless you do that
1:31.9	Yep. You can see oh reward card. or cash. Unless you do that, yep.
1:33.0	You can see, oh, this is the best one.
1:36.5	I never thought about that one.
1:38.1	Like you input, like what you spend money on.
1:39.9	I'm spending money on restaurants or this or that and we tell you what's the best
1:44.1	card is best we've been able to analytically use analytics to figure out
1:50.3	because the reality is people pick a credit card based on who is
1:55.7	advertising the most and soliciting the most and that's not necessarily going
2:00.1	to be what you should be using the most, or at all.
2:03.5	Now it's time for Clark Stakes.
2:06.5	I should have never encouraged you to speak.
2:08.3	You much think I'm pretty stupid.
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