in the billions of dollars of fraud and i think it ill serves the people that are enrolled in it. what the healthy indiana plan does, it uses power accounts that are health savings accounts where the state participates and almost everyone enrolled will make a monthly contribution and encourages people to move from emergency room care to primary care, creates incentives for people to have wellness checks and take greater ownership of their health care. look. the american people know that by giving people more opportunities to control their health care choices and giving them more information about the costs and availability of health care services, that s going to be the pathway toward lowering costs and expanding health care coverage all across this country in a sustainable matter. jenna: so what do you think are your chances? you have the waiver to continue to work with this program this year from health and human services but what does it look like moving forward? you think you ll no
from emergency room care to primary care. the other thing we ve done in this, too, we ve reimbursed physicians at the medicare rate, not the medicaid rate. the opportunities for access to more primary care in indiana has been significant and, you know, at the end of the day, it s it improves people s lives, their health care and most experts recognize that the way you bend the cost curve in health care in the long term is by getting giving more americans more ownership and more responsibility over their own health care choices. governorer, is this complimentary. andy serwer with fortune magazine some. how does it connect to obama care and how much of a repudiation of obama care is it? well, it s really entirely separate. this was a program that was built in 2008 on top of our traditional medicaid program. we used revenues from a cigarette tax to say we want to expand coverage, but we want to
insurance kicks in. even then, you are bonused on the basis of how much you manage those health care costs. imagine if there was transparency in the system, which we need. you knew exactly what this doctor and this doctor was going to charge for an elective surgery, and you knew exactly what this hospital and that one over there would charge for the costs to the surgery, and you made the same kind of decision you would make that you make on anything else you purchase. i am not talking about emergency room care, i am talking about when you get a knee replacement, the cost can range dramatically and you don t know because you don t know how to ask the questions. in a health savings account, you have a role to play in managing the decisions. if you manage them well, it is to your financial advantage. if you manage them poorly, you still get covered, but you re not going to benefit financially from it. what if doctors didn t have to deal with the complicated
summer olympics. that s not what you want to see just before the games start. a bizarre one i never heard about either. the name. plus, a day of reckonning for facebook. we look ahead to the first earnings report as a public company later today with our christine romans. interesting. up first, the latest on the aftermath and investigation in aurora, colorado. law enforcement sources say the shooting suspect james holmes mailed a package to the university of colorado campus in aurora which was received on monday and forced the evacuation of a building. it was holmes himself who told police where to find it. cbs news says the package was addressed to a psychologist and contained a letter talking about shooting people along with scribbling showing the gunman shooting victims. we re going to have a full report from aurora in a few minutes. six days after the mssacre in aurora, colorado, gun control is a very hot topic on the campaign trail. he waited five days to enter the
you know what, we have never had richie havens starting off this morning. this is danny glover s playlist, thanks for being with us. he is an oscar nominated actor and producer of a new documentary shenandoah. i spent time there doing a documentary as well. ryan lizza, the washington correspondent from the new yorker and will cain from the blaze.com. i missed you terribly. it s been 12 hours since we ve seen each other. i get to meet one of my favorite actors, deets from lone some dove. are you from texas? if you don t like lonesome dove, you re in trouble. you might have to switch spots today. i was going to say lethal weapon but everybody says that, right? our starting point this morning, breaking news, hazmat crews are on the scene. a spectacular fire, taking place in ohio. a train was pulling several tankers derailed just before 2:00 this morning. the accident happened in the north end of columbus, which is near ohio state university and the ohio s