New Hampshire Results; New York's Giant Medicaid Budget; Rent vs. Buy

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.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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