No healthcare premiums? In this economy?! Here's how.

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  NPR.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Adrian Ma, and here today joining us is NPR financial correspondent Maria Aspin.

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  Hey, Maria.

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  Hey there.

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  You're here because you have spent a lot of time covering the broken business of U.S.

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  healthcare.

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  Yes, it is such a cheerful topic.

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  Uh-huh, well, as we know, the U.S.

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  has the most expensive healthcare in the developed world,

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  and the prices we pay for health insurance are getting even worse.

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  I'm actually here today, though, to talk about a little bit of good news,

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  and it starts with drinking fancy cocktails.

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  Okay,

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  are you saying that we basically need to distract ourselves from how expensive healthcare is getting?

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  I mean, look, dealing with my insurance company can definitely make me want to drink.

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  And I grew up with this healthcare system.

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  People who move to the United States from other countries,

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  like Canada, can go through some serious sticker shock.

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  It's like, whoa, like, this is a wake-up call and this isn't cheap.

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