The requirement that americans buy health insurance. We can afford to have a modedest rate increase. Natural disasters. Weve been destroyed. It is like the apocalypse. And human tragedies. They are saying somebody is shooting in the auditorium. Of political fumbleles. I have five seconds before you interrupted me. And schockers. The seriousness of havg a cia director invoed in an extramarital affair cannot b overplayayed. All right. As we look back, lets begin with the top political story of the year the reelection of barack obama. As timemes magazine cover story stage the president is the person of the year barack obama will be the first dememocrat in more e than 75 years to win a majority of the popular vote twice. Mitt romney has to be asking himself, given the magnitude of the president s problems and the great numbers of americans who believe the country was headed in the wrong dirirection how did i lose . The Republican National convention, a vermont couple took the stage to desc
Pills, even if you didnt think you needed them. Here with the details with dr. Lee vinokur and pharmaceutical expert, shane. Doctor, let me start with you. What is the reasoning behind this . Well because in the past everybody talked about knowing your numbers and while its important, thats not the endgame or the goal. The goal is to prevent heart attacks, prevent deaths from heart disease. It is still the number one killer for wen and men today and it isnt just a number. And what theyre finding, even though theyre recommending, maybe more pills for a wider range of people, it is actually more holistic in a sense because it looks at more things. It looks at Blood Pressure. Looks at sex. It looks at race. It looks at exercise and diet. There was a group of people, for instance the new recommendation between 40 and 75 and have type 2 diabetes because these drugs, statins, they do lower cholesterol but they also can lower triglycerides. They are antiinflammatory. Melissa right. In an esse
Result. What is your relationship with them like now . Well, the Public Employee union bosses are not real happy but i think hardworking employees, the good decent public servants, many of whom in the past were stuck giving, for example a teacher in milwaukee as many as 1400 for union dues can use it for kids College Education or health care or pension, those workers feel much better. Good once in particular. Now we can hire and fire based on merit. We can pay based on performance. Put the best and brightest in our classrooms and government positions and reward ones doing exceptionally well. Melissa those public unions. Unions across the board, causing a lot of tumult in america right now. Look what is going on in walmart. In the press at least there is a war on walmart right now, whether theyre talking about wages, highlighting anything that goes on in the store. Do you think that unions in trying to unionize in walmart is behind some of that . Oh, i think there is a whole big politic
Hebid giving people chance to evaluate offers from doctors across the country and then travel to get the care of their choice. Here to discuss how it all works, the president , ralph weber. Ralph, what is the experience, i go online what happens . Well, you go online and make a request. Depend if you work for employer that uses met at thatbid as source care or individual. You make a request and put in parameters. Health questions, height, weight, any medication allergies. You can put in how far youre willing to travel, if at all. Then you request a bid. You can review all the doctor as profiles. So you see where they went to medical school, what their training was, what their experience is. How many of these procedures they do every year. So you really get to see a lot about the quality of the doctor, as you make the request. Melissa wow. With traditional insurance, all you know is in network or out of network. Melissa you really dont know that much. Although you are able to ask people
1. 6 million vehicles and a dozen deaths, General Motors is now offering 500 towards the purchase of a new car for owners affected by the controversial ignition switch recall. Joining me now a former senior enforcement attorney for the national highway Traffic Safety administration, the regulator of gm. Great to have you here, alan. Thanks for coming on. I want first your reaction to what gm is offering to consumers . Well, the 500 credit toward the purchase of a new vehicle does nothing to remedy or fix the old vehicle which is defective. And theyre not offering to repurchase the old vehicle. So, you know, i dont, view it as constructive from a safety standpoint. And they have had some strategic reason for doing it, kind of a, you know, a nonbuyback preemptive strike on class actions or try to create some goodwill for their customers who have been driving around with defective vehicles. Frankly if i was a customer, had a defective vehicle i would be less inclined to buy another vehicl