➡ Health insurance rates are expected to significantly increase in 2026, causing concern for many people. This increase is due to various factors, including government shutdowns affecting subsidies. It’s important to understand your insurance coverage and ask questions to ensure you’re adequately covered. The rising costs of healthcare and insurance can be a burden, especially for those with serious health conditions requiring expensive treatments.
➡ Sales of comfort food have increased by 14.5%, a trend last seen during the previous economic downturn. Starbucks plans to hire 8,000 assistant managers to improve store operations. Many small restaurants have closed, causing issues for commercial real estate. Lastly, a malfunction in Amazon’s web service caused adjustable beds to overheat and move uncontrollably, highlighting the risks of internet-connected devices.

Hey, it’s Dan. Welcome back to I Allegedly. I have a good one for you today. There’s still a lot of bad news, but it’s a good because we’re together. You’re about to get stick or shock on something new. On what, Dan? What’s what’s gonna go up next? Your health insurance is gonna go through the flippin’ roof. And this is a bad sign because it’s affecting all of us. So please hit the like button, subscribe to this channel. Make sure on the email list because one is going out eminently. Use the link below to sign up for it.

Oh man, oh man. We have a sponsor also, Patriot Gold Group, today. But I am blown away by this because think about this. People are getting stick or shock right now. And what’s funny is the older I get, people, you know, they try to say it politely. They’re like, hey, are you of Medicare age? No, I’m not, okay? So, you know, it’s kind of funny. But the thing that hits me is I have a friend that works, does security for a hospital group. And one thing that he sees is people go in and out of the hospital chain and just, you know, they’re in different phases of their treatment.

I lived with my mother that had cancer. I have a sick relative right now today. My late girlfriend passed away from complications from breast cancer. And I have been deeply involved with the insurance process and with hospitals and all that glorious, fantastic, fun stuff. But right now people are getting complete sticker shock because the new rates for 2026 are coming out. Now you can blame whoever you want. You can blame, oh, they want to strip Obamacare away. No, here’s the thing. 28 states have the mandated health care through Obamacare.

20s, two states run their own programs. So that makes up the 50 states. Now here’s the thing. Early in November, you’re going to be able to see what the rates are. And again, for what we’ve seen and what we’ve heard of what I’ve been told by these people, it’s going to be utterly sickening. Now I spend well over $1,000 a month on my health insurance. I am a single man. I am of age that I could drop dead of a heart attack. I could slip and fall and break my hip filming this video for you.

And we have to have insurance. Now I have had times in my life when I didn’t have insurance and it’s been almost catastrophic where I thought I broke my arm by having some fat kid, enormously fat kid, throw a baseball and every time he sees me, it hit me in the wrist and it swelled up so big, so fast, everybody thought it was broken because it looked abnormal. But now it’s just a nice hematoma. Anyways, I had to go pay for that on my own. Thank God the hospital made me a deal because it would have been catastrophic if it would have been broken.

So now I have insurance. That’s a long, long time ago, though. Anyways, people are getting sticker shock right now and they call it the window shopping period. This is this is disgusting because this is not fair for all of us. You know, I dated a nurse a year and a half ago, two years ago, whenever it was, and she was even telling me that she spent over $800 working for a cardiologist. That was the best deal that she could get back then. And it’s terrible, guys. But as a single woman, do you have an extra 800 bucks a month? Nobody has this, but you have to have the insurance because if something happens, you’ll never get out of these medical bills.

You’ll never be able to pay for it. So get ready for this because this is the next catastrophic thing that we’re seeing. You can blame the budget. You can blame, you know, the government shutdown, which is part of it because certain subsidies and certain things won’t kick in right now without the government being open. So it’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out. And, you know, I myself, I’m sick of this. You know, when I didn’t make a lot of money, there were government subsidies through the Obamacare where they would give you a reduced premium every month, which was nice.

It made it made it very, very reasonable at one point to have health insurance. And the older I got and after living and going through what with what my girlfriend went through and she had a platinum PPO plan and she could walk in anywhere. I mean, it was just crazy. Even with that, I witnessed things that nobody needs to witness. And I will never forget. I told the story before I was filming in Naples, Long Beach, and I got a call and she called in the back line. So it was an emergency.

Okay, which I dropped filming as in the middle of filming and I just stopped. And she said, I think they canceled my insurance. I have a huge problem. What’s that? They want $16,000 for the co-pay for the cancer drugs. $16,000 guys. Like, what? What are you talking about? Well, long and short of it, her debit card had expired with CVS. But you don’t have insurance. We can’t afford it. Can’t bill it. Can’t pay for it. Your insurance is $16,000. You don’t have $16,000 for drugs, guys, to pay for your treatment. There are people out there that write me and tell me, I spend, you know, $2,000 on my pharmaceuticals every month because they are sick.

They have Parkinson’s, diabetes, and a myriad of things that they’ve written me about that are horrific. And I pray for these people every day. But again, if you don’t have the insurance, guys, you don’t have $16,000. Nobody has that kind of money to take pills to keep yourself going. That’s it, guys. That’s it. So craziness. Oh, look at this bird. Can you see a little bird in the end? Look at that thing. That’s beautiful. Anyways, not by the sanctuary today. So guys, this is coming to a theater near you. You’re going to see this happen.

And you can… I’m just sick of the blame game. I’m sick of it being an administration. When you had the last one, you know, and there was an issue that would come up, you know, and inflation went through the roof. It is crazy that nobody would sit there and bring this up and how inflation hit almost, you know, over 9%. I thought it was much higher personally. But again, the prices have never come down from that point. You understand? They went up and stayed up. Now you’re going to see your insurance go through the roof.

And my friend that works at the hospital group, one thing that he has seen is that people go to Medicare or Medicaid and they choose these advantage programs that don’t pay for anything, that limit what they can get paid for when they do get sick. So for those of you, each and every one of you ask your insurance man to explain to you what is covered with your insurance and sit down with them. I have this young man that is 30, that is my insurance man. And he’s been promoted in the company.

But one thing that he does, I’m his only client that comes down when it’s renewal time in the middle of November to explain everything to me because I have a million and one questions for him every time. So the older I get and the last year and I haven’t been to a hospital for an emergency this year, I felt very lucky because I had the best coverage. So when I traveled, if I needed to go, I was covered. You need to ask these questions, guys. And David’s a great insurance man.

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They’re great people. Let them answer all your questions. 888-330-1431. Now there’s a lot more to cover but think about this. Eagle Brands, where have I heard of that? They sell a product called Hamburger Helper and Hamburger Helper in the month of August saw sales go up 14.5%. The last time they went up this much was during the last economic downturn. You’re going to see more and more people eat this comfort food to get by by taking hamburger or any meat that you’ve got and mixing it with that elixir of delight.

Now I grew up with a single mom who had to work because my father was what you call it and he didn’t give my mom any money. So she had to pay for us all on her own. So with that we had a lot of hamburger helper and TV dinners and actually my brother and I looked back at those times fondly sitting in front of the TV eating and mom would cook dinner as we got older we could cook our own dinner. But I ate a ton of that stuff and you know what it did? It didn’t hurt me at all.

It made me appreciate things and also understand finances when people don’t pay. Anyways, I could go on for an hour. A few things that are funny. You’re going to see Starbucks go out and Starbucks is hiring more assistant managers. They want to get back in the assistant manager business and they’re going to hire 8,000 assistant managers. Now my son worked for Starbucks and talked about all the problems that he had with his manager. I want to say four different Starbucks in the course of his career but if he had a problem with a manager, a manager had attitude or you know a manager would say why would you want to waste your life going to college? You know it would be interesting because he would just see that people were doomed and not happy.

Saw it also when he worked at Dunkin Donuts. He saw the same thing but he got into a routine and then he got into food service and made more money. There’s a helicopter going overhead. So they’re going to try the good old assistant manager routine and having somebody that will do the scheduling, someone that will do complaints, someone that you’ll answer to over going to the general manager of the store. It’ll be interesting to see if this works. They got rid of these people a while back because there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

So it’ll be interesting to see if this gets fixed. Next thing is uh you know and this is an Aaron Smiles type thing. Fast casual and casual dining restaurants that have gone out of business have created a huge problem for commercial real estate when it comes to small restaurants. There are so many small restaurants right now that have vacancies that you know the landlords are suing the owners and they’re having problems because so many of these restaurants seek to expand and then have gone out of business. And I was blown away because there is one restaurant chain that Lane’s Fried Chicken which I’d never heard of is going to add they want to add 68 more stores.

And again you know they keep selling franchises. Their big sales area is the Texas area and they’re seeing more and more people that are opening up these chicken finger franchises. Which again if you guys like the fried food man stuff is horrible for you but anyways enjoy okay enjoy. So it’s kind of interesting but you’re seeing more and more of these people that are opening stores in these certain niche markets. So we’ll see if it works but for guys like Aaron they’re having problems when it comes to these real estate places because you’ve got what do you do with certain you know some of these large stores that have gone out of business.

They just sit vacant for years now. That’s what we’re seeing and want to remind everybody that we have the private channel. I allegedly live. I love doing that content. It’s absolutely fantastic and it’s all the uncensored stuff that we can’t talk about here but check it out today in the final final story and I love this and thank you Dr. Marvin for this one because it is solid gold and I laughed hysterically when I read this. Amazon AWS is the platform where you can have your website and it went down this week.

Apps were on it. Websites are on it. I’ve had multiple websites on this thing. Anyways put all the birdies behind it pretty. People that had the posturepedic and different type of beds that move you know you can adjust. When the hack went down all these beds freaked out. Some beds went to the maximum temperature of over 100 degrees so people were sleeping and they woke up to their bid being at 105 degrees which is insane. It’s like jacuzzi hot and the beds were crazy crazy hot like that which again is it wrong that I laughed at this stuff because I thought that was hilarious and beds that were in positions wrong and would just continue to move up and down and up and down which I just thought was hilarious.

So the other thing was there’s alarms built in some of those beds and the inopportune time what like two o’clock in the morning when you’re dead asleep yeah yeah so anyways your stuff is attached to the internet. Your stuff is communicating with the world about what you’re doing. Mildred turn the bed off you know I mean come on this is great okay ha ha charlie enjoy the heat anyways you get what I’m saying hit the like button subscribe to the channel I’m telling you guys the sticker shock is wild when I saw this stuff I cannot wait to meet with my insurance man but I’m telling you guys I spent over a thousand dollars a month and it’s got not going down anytime soon and you have to have insurance I’m gonna risk it don’t I’m telling you don’t don’t risk not having car insurance don’t risk not having renters and homeowners insurance because you’re going to be the one person that that will get taken out I was driving down the street today and saw that a car had lost control and went through and took out cars in an office building and just destroyed everything and the guy tried to flee I don’t know why okay didn’t ask him cops were already taking him away but I wanted to start filming and they went no no no you’re you’re going so anyways point is you need to have insurance for anything for any day of the week you don’t know what’s going to happen okay remember my friend that got the fender bender out fender bender fender bender on the Tesla and the Tesla’s dead remember that like subscribe make good choices and eat right get lots of fiber okay I’ll see you soon you
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