New Hampshire Results; New York's Giant Medicaid Budget; Rent vs. Buy; Inside a Polycule
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 24, 2024
On today's show:
- McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Romney: A Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2023), talks about the results from Tuesday presidential primary in New Hampshire.
- New York State's Medicaid budget is one of the biggest in the country. Bill Hammond, senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center, and Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York Campaign, explain why that is, why Medicaid spending is over budget and what all that spending provides for New Yorkers.
- Mortgage interest rates may be coming down some, but they are still higher than recent lows. Ronda Kaysen, real estate reporter for The New York Times, discusses the math homebuyers should take into consideration to make the best decision on buying vs. renting a home, plus the role logistics and emotion play in these decisions, and how the housing market might look in 2024.
- Anya Kamenetz, author of the parenting newsletter "The Golden Hour", and the book, The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now (Public Affairs, 2022), and advisor to the Aspen Institute and the Climate Mental Health Network, brings us into the story of a modern day polycule as documented in New York Magazine's The Cut while listeners share how they're practicing polyamory in their homes in 2024.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
