Marketplace Morning Report
Marketplace Morning Report

The rise of cash-only care

December 16, 2025

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5 min read

🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: This fast-paced news magazine podcast unpacks current economic headlines through host narration, expert interviews, and on-the-ground reporting, blending data-driven analysis with real-world human impacts in a no-nonsense journalistic style. Analytical and urgent.
  • The Format: A news broadcast featuring interviews and reporter dispatches.
  • The Key Players:
    • Host Sabri Benishore (sometimes spelled variably), who guides the segments with crisp transitions on labor, industry shifts, and healthcare economics.
    • Guest David Kelly, Chief Global Strategist at JP Morgan Funds, offering expert takes on jobs data; notable for his candid, market-savvy breakdowns.
    • Reporters Nancy Marshall Genzer (auto industry) and Alex Olgan (healthcare), delivering vivid field stories that humanize macro trends.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 **(00:00) 🎙️ Introduction: David Kelly, Chief Global Strategist at JP Morgan Funds**
  • 2 **(00:31) US Jobs Report: November Gains Offset by October Losses**
  • 3 **(01:58) Implications for Federal Reserve Interest Rates**
  • 4 **(02:45) Electric Vehicles Prospects Dim Under Trump Administration**
  • 5 **(03:25) Ford Pivots to Hybrids and Extended-Range EVs**
  • 6 **(04:52) Rising Health Insurance Costs Fuel Cash-Only Doctor Trend**
  • 7 **(05:17) Patient Story: Brittany Pollard's Shift to Direct Primary Care**

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Show Notes

The cost of health insurance is becoming increasingly unaffordable. With many Affordable Care Act marketplace subsidies set to expire, coverage is about to get even more pricier for more than 20 million people next year. These growing costs are fueling interest in a market for cash-only doctors. Today, we'll hear more. But first, all of those government layoffs and employee buyouts have hit the labor market. We’ll discuss.

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