It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. It is Tuesday. So we are in the Health and Climate Tuesday section of the show. Health reporter Jonathan Cohn is coming up as millions of Americans face a health insurance cliff at the end of this month. We'll also later in the hour have our latest shop listener call in to support your fellow listeners, not just the big box stores and those websites whose name won't even say

in the holiday shopping season. But first, this is Giving Tuesday, as you may have heard,

the Global Day dedicated to giving back to the nonprofit organizations that make a difference in

your life and make a difference in the world. What is giving Tuesday? It's a worthy

thing, I think, after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, those big shopping days. And before you spend

all your walking around money on holiday gifts, for those of you lucky enough to have enough

money to make charitable donations, the nonprofits of the world banded together a few

years ago, this is just a few years old thing, and establish this Tuesday after Thanksgiving

as Giving Tuesday. And their hope is that you'll support a few different nonprofits. I support

that idea. My pitch is to not only give to WNYC, but pick a few nonprofits whose work you support on this Giving Tuesday.

You just heard Michael talking about some of the problems that various nonprofits are facing with the federal funding cuts this year, and you know that includes us.

So maybe you can make a few donations today if you have the means to do that. And obviously,

we're asking that you make one of them to WNYC. Thank you for being a little part of that.

The phone number 888-376, WNYC, 888-376-9692, or you can do it right from the homepage at WNYC.org.

Now, millions of Americans are standing precariously on a health insurance cliff.

I'm calling it a health insurance cliff that will collapse under them at the end of this month if the government

doesn't do something. As many of you know, this was the central issue for Democrats in the

recent government shutdown, the Affordable Care Act subsidies that have been in effect the last four

years, but will expire now, causing a doubling of many people's premiums, according to the

reported estimates.

With President Trump's declining approval ratings, he seems to want the Republicans in Congress

to do something, but this seems to be the rare case in which many of them are not following

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