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This is Sarah Stewart-Holland.

This is Beth Silvers.

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics for at least two years.

We've been reading that health insurance premiums would go way up for 2026. And here we are. It's not great. It's not great right now.

So today we're going to talk about what's going on and how we got here. Outside of politics,

longtime listener Katie sent as an Instagram reel about customer service that is so on point, we needed to talk about it.

So we will do that.

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