award taxpayer money. greta: iowa and nebraska their chief financial officer of the co-op has a string of high profile failures. can t we find people who have a history of success? even if you think the co-op is a good idea, why don t we look for people with a history of success? these are all startups. you want to have people that have a track record of success. this guy tried to launch an amazon style health and consumer online buying service for green technologies and sustainable technologies and it was a complete flop. and he had two other greta: went belly up totally belly up. what is the vetting? what are are the standards? who has been giving this money? greta: and who has given out the 2 billion? who gives the okay? it is a small department of the department of health and human services. greta: do we he kno know ths
clinics across the country are turning away thousands of medicare patients. they are blaming the sequester is. ted joins us. tell me, ted, why are the cancer centers turning away medicare patients? well, the problem is, greta, is that the sequester cut medicare across-the-board by 2%. and the biggest problem here with cancer clinics is unlike cutting services by 2% that physicians provide it is cutting the underlying cost of the drug. you are talking about taking a fixed cost for a drug that a cancer clinic dispenses to a patient and administers to patient and cuting that underlying cost. the problem is you have a clinic sitting there and saying i have a choice, do i continue on treating these medicare patients in the clinic as oh opposed to send them elsewhere to the hospital for the treatment for example and incur a loss with each one and ultimately not being able to
we greta: come back to town. come back to town. greta: stop the trips. stop the fund raising. you know, stop taking your two week vacation for the problem you created for everybody else. come back and do your job you got elected for because it is painful what they are doing to the medicare cancer patients and their familys. we shouldn t put cancer patients in the way of politics and that is the problem that is happening right now. we have to get cancer patients out of that. especially seniors our most vulnerable population we have to do something about it immediately. i totally agree with you. greta: all the congress and the white house and house and senate has to do is exempt the cancer drugs for the medicare patients from the sequester. come back and do that. ted, thank you you. thank you, greta. greta: i hope the message gets throughout. thank you, ted. appreciate it. thank you very much. greta: tonight s hot put ton issue guess what that is? it is on greta wire
greta: interesting because south korea s ship was shelled a couple of years ago and a lot of sailors were lost and south korea didn t respond at that time. do the people of south korea this time if there is a provokation do they want a strong reaction from south korean? they do. a really good point because last time as you mentioned they didn t counter strike. in a way the soft response though criticized helps maintain peace. south korean takes a punch in the face and doesn t come back. this time there is the political will and will among the general population to come back much harder. then we move into unchartered territory since the korean war where the question becomes if north korea is hit back do they stop and hold the line there or come back with something else? greta: secretary of state john kerry is going to be south korean next week. what is hoped to be achieved?
$423,000 if i m not mistaken. a lot of money to spend on the correct use of condoms. greta: who came up with? who okayed this? we don t know. it is interesting. my colleague daniel helper at the weekly standard dug this up and we have been doing some follow-up reporting and haven t gotten answers to those kind of questions yet. it was in the stimulus and cree heiate nod jobs. the morn any was create nod jobs. the money was spent. greta: imagine being home and youre on medicare and getting chemotherapy but the place isn t going to take medicare. you you have all of the politicians out of town who created the sequester problem and they are watching worried their own lives and find out we spend $423,000 on condom study and created no jobs out of the stimulus money. this is the most absurd example you could possibly come