Why therapists are leaving insurance networks

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

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Federal regulators are suing to block the merger of supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons. The AP's Dee-Ann Durbin tells us more. Then, it can be hard to find a therapist who accepts health insurance. A new investigation finds that's in part because insurers are making it hard for some mental health providers to stay on their plans. ProPublica's Annie Waldman joins us. And, we look back on summer movie season and ahead to the fall with longtime entertainment reporter John Horn.

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0:46.9	Kroger and Albertsons are huge union employers and Kroger and Albertsons are saying, look, our competitors, Walmart, Costco, they aren't unionized.
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1:27.0	Today on the show, finding a therapist can be hard these days,
1:32.0	especially one that accepts your health insurance, and a new
1:35.1	investigation reveals why. Also, what was up with this summer movie season?
1:41.6	The movie business is increasingly a world of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer,
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1:50.0	So many other smaller films have failed.
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