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Marketplace All-in-One

A costly lesson, often learned the hard way

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

Business, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Medicare does not pay for general, long-term care. Now, Kamala Harris, the Democrat’s candidate for president, wants to expand Medicare to pay for long-term care for older people in their home. That would need an amenable new Congress, but many families are presently left trying to piece together care for older relatives. Also on today’s show: potential structure changes to Google and the rising value of the U.S. dollar.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

0:03.4

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

0:09.6

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

0:14.4

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

0:18.6

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

0:22.6

This could be the warmest year on record.

0:24.6

Climate change is here.

0:25.7

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

0:29.5

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

0:35.9

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

0:44.7

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

0:47.5

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

0:51.0

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:55.0

There been rumblings of this, but now the legal machinery is ramping up.

1:00.0

The Justice Department is considering asking a judge to break up alphabet Google in the name of competition.

1:07.0

I'm David Brancatrio in New York.

1:10.0

This summer a federal judge had found that Google had built an illegal monopoly and online

1:14.9

search. Now as a remedy the government says it may seek from the same judge

1:19.2

structural changes to that business, Marketplace's Nova Safo reports.

1:24.0

In a court filing, the Justice Department said it may seek structural changes to Google's business.

1:29.0

Google appeared to interpret that as splitting off its chrome browser or Android operating system.

1:35.7

This is the opening salvo in what will surely be a years long battle.

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