12.18.24 American Healthcare Needs A Full Rethink / New Employment Challenges

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has created a lot of argument and discussion about healthcare and health insurance. Clark addresses the problems and challenges we face with the U.S. healthcare system including lack of choice, hidden pricing, and consumers being squeezed on cost and denied care. Also - Clark discusses new statistics on how long it is taking many workers to find a new job, and how you should prepare. American Healthcare: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Employment Update: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: After a shocking shooting, Americans vent feelings about health insurance National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Home NAELA How Much Money Do I Need in My Emergency Fund? How Much Do You Need To Save a Month To Get $10,000? 17 of the Best High-Yield Online Savings Accounts in December 2024 Is Robinhood Gold Worth It? How To Open a Roth IRA What Is a SIMPLE IRA and How Does It Work? What Is a SEP IRA and Who Is Eligible? 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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0:25.3	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
0:27.2	This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.
0:34.9	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 so you make better financial decisions in your life.
0:48.1	I was shaken to my foundations by the brutal murder of the United Health Care CEO.
0:55.2	And it's created a lot of back and forth about what's going on with health care
1:02.0	and health insurers in particular.
1:05.1	I want to address that in today's episode.
1:08.5	And later, there's a shift in the economy where employment still
1:16.6	remains historically exceptionally low in the United States. But people who are being laid off
1:23.9	from a job, many of them it's taking a lot longer to find a new job than it has in years.
1:31.3	And there are implications in that that we got to talk about.
1:35.6	That's later.
1:37.0	But right now, I was devastated by the cold-blooded murder of the CEO of one of the United Health Care Operating
1:47.4	Units in New York.
1:49.6	I was so surprised by the people who expressed glee on a variety of social media sites about
2:00.5	his cold-blooded assassination.
2:04.9	Brian Thompson was a man who in the healthcare world was in the news
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