Too many subscriptions, not enough organs

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Our indicators of the week: how a federal agency is trying to make it easier for you to cancel your subscriptions. And what's being done to address the 100,000-plus person backlog for organ transplants.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.0	This is the indicator for Plata money.
0:12.8	I'm Adrian Ma.
0:13.8	I'm Wayland Wong.
0:15.0	We have made it to Friday.
0:16.9	You know what that means.
0:18.3	I think it means hit it.
0:20.4	Bam!
0:21.4	It's indicators of the week time.
0:24.6	And this time around we got indicators about two government agencies trying to do stuff.
0:29.9	Yes, we've got the Federal Trade Commission or the FTC trying to make it easier to cancel
0:35.6	subscriptions.
0:37.1	Also an indicator about the Health and Human Services Department trying to address a backlog
0:41.4	for organ transplants.
0:43.0	So two equally important stories.
0:46.2	What?
0:47.2	Sorry, Wayland.
0:48.2	I'm not trying to cast shade on your indicator.
0:50.8	Subscription overload is real.
0:52.4	It is real.
0:53.4	It's a real problem.
0:54.4	I'm not equating it with organ transplants.
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