How Are You Handling Increased Health Insurance Premiums?

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Californians have until January 31 to sign up for health insurance provided by Covered California, the state’s Obamacare plan. Because Congress let health care tax credits expire, the cost of insurance has radically increased for many customers, and some are opting out of health insurance altogether. We’ll hear how skyrocketing costs are affecting your healthcare decisions and take your questions. Guests: Jessica Altman, executive director, Covered California, the state health insurance exchange Cynthia Cox, senior vice-president, KFF, an independent source for health policy research, polls and news - Cox is also the director of KFF's Affordable Care Act Program Katelyn Jackson, executive director, Clinic by the Bay, a free medical clinic for uninsured patients Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.7	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:54.0	Happy Friday. I want to start this show with the title of Nighting's new book. Of course, she's the proprietor of Lunette in the fairy building, celebrated chef with her own Netflix episode. But the cuisine of her family and ancestors is not one that many people have experienced cooking or sometimes even eating.
1:11.6	The title of the book is My Cambodia, a Kamai cookbook. If you're wondering what the second word in the
1:18.5	subtitle is, it's spelled K-H-M-E-R, and I grew up pronouncing it, Khmer. That's just not how you say it,
1:25.5	and as I read the note in the cookbook that explains it,
1:28.3	I felt a surge of gratitude to be learning and correcting myself. And I also felt a squirt of shame
1:33.7	that the United States could have been so deeply involved in the affairs of Cambodians.
1:38.1	And yet I've never heard the word pronounced that way. That's perhaps the least delicious
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