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Good morning again, everyone.

We're going to talk now about something

that health insurance doesn't do more often than it used to not do it. I think that's English.

It's an experience that's becoming more and more common at the pharmacy counter. According to a new

report in the New York Times,

private health insurers are denying claims for prescription drugs at a higher rate now than they

were a decade ago. Maybe you saw the story that came out a few days ago and joining us with insights

from her reporting is Sarah Cliff, investigative healthcare reporter for the New York

Times. Hi, Sarah. Welcome back to WNYC. Yeah, thanks for having me. For people who missed your article

and we'll open up the phones for people's personal experiences to help you report the story

further. But can you give us a quick recap of the big takeaways? Sure, and I'm sure we'll get plenty of experiences,

because this is a pretty common experience in our health care system.

The big takeaways, we've worked with a large health data company,

Komodo Health, to analyze about 4 billion health insurance claims from private insurers

over the past decade, which is often a black box.

And what we saw was pretty startling. We saw a jump in

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