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Hey there.

So first, whoa, there's a lot going on.

I'm recording this on January 30th, and I'm not going to try to summarize what the Trump administration has been doing so far in health care.

Because by the time you hear this, I have no idea what else might have happened.

Oh, boy.

We will definitely have a lot to talk about as this year goes on.

And in the meantime, all the things we've been

talking about on this show, they are still happening. So, we've got a project cooking,

and I need your help with it. It's about how freaking much we pay for medicine and what we can maybe do about it.

This problem is something that hits a lot of us. A big recent survey asked, have you skipped

a medication in the last year because of cost? And a quarter of people answered yes.

And we know a ton of people spend all kinds of time and energy trying to make sure they

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