{"id":359126,"date":"2025-12-21T05:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359126\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:43:17","slug":"22-states-in-recession-rising-insurance-premiums-and-1-99-gas-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359126\/","title":{"rendered":"22+ states in recession, rising insurance premiums and $1.99 gas. Oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          Trump: \u201cDon\u2019t make (rising insurance premiums) sound so bad&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>because it\u2019s about melania\u2019s underpants<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UnderpantsGnomesjpg.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/UnderpantsGnomesjpg.jpg\" title=\"UnderpantsGnomesjpg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The total health benefit cost per employee is expected to rise 6.5% on average in 2026 \u2014 the highest increase since 2010 \u2014 even after accounting for planned cost-reduction measures. Employers estimated that plan cost would increase by nearly 9%, on average, if they took no action to lower cost. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercer.com\/en-us\/insights\/us-health-news\/employers-prepare-for-the-highest-health-benefit-cost-increase-in-15-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.mercer.com\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bafkreiemdldl6iqafhyqmj7bev52hk44dshyhtwpx7btm6nk4sgblb7mvmjpeg1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bafkreiemdldl6iqafhyqmj7bev52hk44dshyhtwpx7btm6nk4sgblb7mvmjpeg1\" title=\"bafkreiemdldl6iqafhyqmj7bev52hk44dshyhtwpx7btm6nk4sgblb7mvmjpeg1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ny-news-melania-trump-dont-care-jacket-20180621.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>22 states are experiencing persistent job losses and economic weakness that meet recession criteria. California and New York&#8217;s economies could determine whether the downturn spreads nationwide.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>x<\/p>\n<p>FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you<\/p>\n<p>LUTNICK: What he&#8217;s saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it&#8217;s down 7 times<\/p>\n<p>F: Not a 600% cut<\/p>\n<p>L: But it&#8217;s 700% higher price before. It&#8217;s down 700% now<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mabyan3ilg2z?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Rupar (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@atrupar.com<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mabyan3ilg2z?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dec 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>x<\/p>\n<p>Montage of Howard Lutnick over the past 9 months constantly moving the goalposts on when the economy is going to be booming &#8211; 4Q! 1Q! 2Q! 1 year! <\/p>\n<p>He was asked in March when it wasn\u2019t going to be Biden\u2019s fault anymore: \u201cWe own the economy in the 4th quarter!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zip29ZMg38\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Zip29ZMg38<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/2002137059620982892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bafkreicw3utfcoq3rgtdrairrrselx353qurpmm7zcredgecifjcbtx6i4jpeg1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bafkreicw3utfcoq3rgtdrairrrselx353qurpmm7zcredgecifjcbtx6i4jpeg1\" title=\"bafkreicw3utfcoq3rgtdrairrrselx353qurpmm7zcredgecifjcbtx6i4jpeg1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GvQ3xfRXEAAGONJ1.jpeg\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GvQ3xfRXEAAGONJ1.jpeg\" title=\"GvQ3xfRXEAAGONJ1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bafkreigtfjqzg57kjhuw3ox6lc4b2gncuvmnccxphfkukekef3dhlabcqajpeg1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bafkreigtfjqzg57kjhuw3ox6lc4b2gncuvmnccxphfkukekef3dhlabcqajpeg1\" title=\"bafkreigtfjqzg57kjhuw3ox6lc4b2gncuvmnccxphfkukekef3dhlabcqajpeg1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot2025-12-20172943.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot2025-12-20172943.png\" title=\"Screenshot2025-12-20172943.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump: \u201cDon\u2019t make (rising insurance premiums) sound so bad&#8230;&#8221; because it\u2019s about melania\u2019s underpants \u200b The total health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-359126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}