Very excited about this one. Were calling it the users guide to your health care. Im going to be giving you the tips, the tools and the strategies you can use right now to help you better understand and take control of your health care including, of course, saving money. Among the issues were exploring tonight, are you getting the most from your insurer . I spoke to dr. Pamela galen about this. Shes a working mom, practicing if and author of the book how to survive your doctors care. We talked about the run around some Insurance Companies can give people. Heres a quick preview. Take a listen. The goal here is not to reimpurse the provider and, in turn, the patient. So the first one is weve lost your paperwork, or you didnt fill it out correctly. Another one is youre not covered anyway and, therefore, we will not reimburse you. And the other is your doctor did it wrong. Gerri well have a lot more coming up tonight on our users guide to health care. And join the conversation on twitter u
Potential backers. This growi threat. Ou know, this issue really rais a lot of important parameters about where we are in Cyber Security when the u. S. Government thinks about Cyber Security in the first thing it thinks about is the critical infrastructure. We think of two this, the Financial Markets and the electric power. Those of the two starting places. We heard before about electric power grids and hackers could get into the power grid. The apartment of Homeland Security had done its own testing getting into an electric Power Generators the rst time we get report that shows have the world exchanges have already suffere from what they call cyber attks, meaning hes arent just people trying to come and get money. They actually can try to come in and bring down the markets. Charles you actually say that this is the newest thriller warfe were facing. Its. Tactical guerrilla warfare, but it is not new to a nyselisted read we have beenttacked by hackers for years. What we know his as peo
the dow is now up nearly 14% year-to-date. up an incredible 128 percent since the lows of 2009. the s&p jng today s rally, picking of 15 points. the broader market of over 12 percentf the year. an up nearly 140% since march of 2009. the nasdaq gaining 28 points on the d. the tech coriente index up nearly 12% on the year. and, the nasdaq has almost trled, growing over 166 percent since march of 20009. the wilshire 5,000 measuring the day s pape gains of $175 billion. north that grows percent over 2 trillionn gns in market capped year today. investors today with only two days remaining in the second quarter of trading dismissed a lower revision in first quarter gdp and, instead, focused on far more fresh readings on housing, manufacturin, and csumer confidence and forward-looking indicators on an economy that is now showing signs of increasing vigor and strength. wall street rallying as a result and turning t washington, the supreme court concluded its term by delivering to blo
market coverinup a bubble? median home prices are searching up from the year before, sales througthe roof. this is certainly not helping curb fears housing is growing too g too quickly. finance professor at george mason university, welcome back to the show, anthony. when the national association of altors says prices are growing too quickly, that s a sign of something. what do you say? absolutely. you reallyave got to p closer attention to the data, and they are. gerri: and 8% hike mth to month which reminds me a lot of 2006, 2005, 2004. is this a bubb? let s take look at this carefully. on the surfa, yes. if you look at mortgage applications, stillmakes 95 levels which means they are in the doldrum not coosers buying homes, these are invtors and wall street, et cetera a paying cash. there is a bubble, absolutely and it is not gog away anyti soon. rr one of the issues at play here are rising terest rates and expectations rising rates could kill this boom. average 30-year
one thing and dog another. it seems like every day some new news comes out tt just totally belies what we hear from the president. absolutely. we are not listening to phone calls isn t actually the original answer to the original question. the original question is can you listen to erics phone calls. he was asked again, it was do you know the phone calls. they say that is not sometng we do. it is not something we are for. everybody seems to be dodging the fact this is something they are cable of and something they do. the into the ardian, basically what they said was occasional nsa analysts listen to american phone calls and they don tust, they pk up a conversation, they listen to amecans, they don t just stop listening when th pick up an americanan nversation. the protocol says listen to the conversation as long as s you nd to to determine if it is importan the data is stiicoected, the phe call is still collected and held for five years. charles: everyone caagree a lot of