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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Americans skipping meals or cutting back on other needs to afford health care

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

Nobody cares for you like family.

0:04.3

Family heating and air.

0:06.2

When you call to have your home or businesses heating and air serviced, what do you expect from them?

0:10.0

The salesman in a colorful truck?

0:11.7

Or do you expect a highly trained expert with your best intentions in mind?

0:14.6

The answer is obvious.

0:15.7

Call the company that treats you like family.

0:17.4

My name's Malian.

0:18.0

I look forward to answering your call.

0:19.4

Family heating and air conditioning is your trusted local independent American standard heating and air conditioning dealer.

0:23.8

Nobody cares for you like family. Family heating and air.

0:30.7

Let's see, 82 million Americans said that they had to cut back on at least one daily living expense,

0:36.9

and this is to cover their health care

0:39.7

bills. And they're cutting back on things like food, even cutting back on utilities, driving

0:45.7

less and borrowing money. Yeah, look, life has become affordable for the vast majority of people

0:51.4

in this country. And whether it's housing or health care or the

0:54.5

oppressive taxes that we get at the federal, state, and local level in this country,

0:59.3

it just seems like we're under attack from everywhere we turn. Everywhere we turn, prices are

1:06.4

going up for everything. Taxes keep going up, and the only thing that's not going up are Americans' wages.

1:12.0

Okay, according to this report, they say that health care costs have prompted tens of millions

1:16.1

of Americans to postpone major life events in recent years. This includes delaying surgeries

1:23.2

or medical treatments. 14% have held off buying a new home and just under one-tenth have put

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