10.14.24 Consumer Warning: Booking Travel / How To Shop Prescriptions

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In the news we’re seeing stories of travelers stranded and out thousands of dollars, because of the way they booked flights and hotels. Clark explains how to avoid this trap when making your travel plans. Also today, why PBMs - the prescription benefits managers included in many employer insurance programs - are often more costly than self-paying for meds. Clark gives you ways to save more on prescriptions. Warning - Fake Travel Agencies: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 How To Shop Prescriptions: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: Travel Archives - Clark Howard 5 Big Travel Updates Clark Wants You To Know How To Freeze and Unfreeze Your Credit With Experian, Equifax and TransUnion FTC sues drug middlemen for allegedly inflating insulin prices Warning: One Way You Should Almost Never Fill Prescriptions 10 Ways To Save on Prescription Drugs Will Mark Cuban's Prescription Company Really Save You Money? Raisin Review: Can You Trust This Online Savings Marketplace? 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When Kate and Jervais founded Health and Her in 2019, they set out to transform Menopause
0:05.6	care.
0:06.6	Through Barclay's Eagle Labs, they gained specialist industry and business expertise, with
0:11.2	support and training for the whole team.
0:14.0	But the story doesn't end here.
0:17.0	Because Health and Her are only just getting started,
0:20.0	selling at major UK retailers,
0:22.0	and making a real difference to thousands of lives.
0:25.0	Grow your business. Bank on Barclays.
0:28.0	Search Barclays Business Banking. I'm so glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard show. You know our mission is to serve you with
0:39.2	you with advice and information that empowers you to make better financial decisions in your life.
0:47.0	And I'm going to start today with an important warning for you when you book airline tickets. This is an important consumer warning, especially for people who
0:57.8	book infrequently. I also want to tell you about how important it is to shop your prescriptions.
1:05.6	There's new information about how important it is not just to go to where you've gone to get your prescriptions.
1:15.1	So there's been story after story after story
1:19.6	about people who get to the airport to fly and they don't exist with the airline.
1:27.8	People are having their money stolen repeatedly by sketchy pretend travel agencies that are showing up when you search
1:42.4	for a deal and you'll see at many different sites where you can
1:48.1	search for airfares there will be a list after you say, oh, I like that deal, and it'll show you a list of places you can book with.
1:59.0	Unfortunately, a lot of those, and this is also true in the hotel business as well, a lot of those are really sleazy sketch or aren't even real agencies.
2:14.2	And they're paying to be listed.
2:18.4	And I'll see this over and over again
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