10.11.18 Obamacare premiums going down; Google security breach; Stock market troubles

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

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🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Obamacare premiums are going down to the surprise of many. Also, a couple of new laws could make it easier for you to save on prescription drugs; Google's security breach was not handled well. Clark tells you to start using Duck Duck Go instead of Google's search tool; The stock market has had a tough couple of days. Clark gives his thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's wonderful to have you here today on the Clark Howard Show a tough day for people
0:11.4	recovering from the massive hurricane unprecedented in recent times that hit the panhandle of Florida
0:20.8	and moved through southwest Georgia and now is principally a rain event elsewhere.
0:27.9	Just want you to know that I'm thinking of you as you suffer through trying to recover.
0:34.5	And I was texting with a relative of my wife last night who was in the dark with his wife and children,
0:43.3	no power and trees were coming down around them and they lived far from the coast but sustained
0:52.5	tremendous property damage and we'll have to rebuild and you just never know you wake up one day
1:00.2	life's one way and before you know it it's something else you have to rebuild from and recover from.
1:06.9	So speaking of an organization that needs to recover it's good name Google and I'm going to talk
1:13.5	about that later how Google really messed up in a big way and has not really sufficiently
1:22.1	apologized for what they've done and that will be the Clark region later yet the stock market
1:30.6	is going through a hiccup right now I want to tell you what it means to you in your 401K or
1:37.2	investment account or anything like that what you might expect moving forward.
1:42.5	I want to talk about a couple of things with healthcare and one I was very excited
1:48.7	about the president signing a new law that addresses something that has been a Clark
1:56.4	Regis moment on our show several times so that you will know that pharmacists have been under a gag
2:05.9	rule where they have not been allowed to tell you that the medicine that you were filling a
2:13.1	prescription for was available cheaper just by you being a cash payer or using a third party discount
2:22.0	program like good RX or whatever that this restraint on your freedom to know was absolutely
2:32.3	shocking and in a bipartisan manner can you ever say that in Washington anymore the patient
2:39.7	right to know drug prices act passed and the president is now signed into law but the important
2:46.9	thing is not that the gag rule is done away with that the insurers imposed and the pharmacy benefits
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