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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Michael Toth joins to discuss the need for health care reform

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:14.9

Casey, we discussed this yesterday.

0:16.7

Yeah.

0:17.2

You know, we had a little seminar on our insurance here at work.

0:21.7

Because it's open enrollment season with health insurance.

0:24.6

And across the entire country, well, it's a mess.

0:28.2

Yeah.

0:28.6

And there's a good chance it's going to cost you a lot more money than the year before.

0:31.3

Yeah.

0:31.5

And just earlier this week, the Senate held a hearing.

0:34.2

And it was called making health care affordable again, healing a broken system.

0:38.4

And during that hearing, our senator, Indiana's Jim Banks, said that the five hospital

0:44.1

systems control most of Indiana's hospitals. And he asked how that lack of competition is

0:51.1

raising prices and causing higher health insurance premiums, which we're

0:55.4

experiencing. And the director of research from Civitas Institute, Michael Tooth, he wrote an

1:02.1

op-ed and it was featured in the Washington Times. And he pretty much made the exact same point.

1:08.4

So let's get with Michael and ask him some questions. Michael,

1:12.8

you said that if we don't fix competition within health care, especially within hospital

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