It's not just you — healthcare deductibles are ballooning
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Growing health insurance premiums, particularly for plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace, have been in the headlines as cuts to Medicaid roll out nationwide. But healthcare deductibles are also growing — and with them, the group of Americans who have insurance but can’t afford to use it. Also in this episode: The hospitality industry adds jobs in May, a jeweler in California mines his own gold, and we recap the week’s economic headlines.
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| 0:00.0 | You know that thing where what normal people think is good news, Wall Street thinks is bad news? |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah, that. |
| 0:11.4 | From American public media. |
| 0:13.9 | This is Marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzo. |
| 0:26.6 | It is Friday today. |
| 0:27.9 | This one is the 5th of June. |
| 0:29.8 | Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 0:33.3 | 172,000 new jobs. |
| 0:35.8 | 172,000 new jobs. 172,000 new jobs. |
| 0:39.5 | Clearly. |
| 0:40.5 | Everything's fine. |
| 0:42.0 | Right? |
| 0:43.2 | Right? |
| 0:44.5 | That obviously is where we're going to start. |
| 0:46.3 | Heather Long is the chief economist. |
| 0:48.0 | The Navy Federal Credit Union, Kate Davidson, is at Bloomberg. |
| 0:50.5 | Hey, you two. |
| 0:51.9 | Hi, Kai. |
| 0:53.4 | Heather Long, I do believe I owe you an apology. |
| 0:56.5 | Well, I will make it unreservedly here on live radio. |
| 1:00.0 | Last time we had you on, I was skeptical about you saying the hiring recession is over. |
| 1:06.2 | And I guess I was wrong, right? |
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