Question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick. The first one was, why cant
As you can in stating your question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick.
What one party has been waiting to see. Im chuck todd. Joining me are joe scarborrow, andrea mitchell, gwen ifill and david axlerod. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good sunday morning here. Before i get down to business, i should show you this new set that we have here. As you can see, weve got some new decor. A nod to the history of the show. Some important decor over here that really gives scarborough a hard time. A university of miami helmet. A new coffee bar because its sunday morning. We should only be drinking coffee. Some of you may decide you need more than that. We hope you enjoy it. Its a clean look. We like it. Its more my style. Now lets get down to business. Its been a rough week. Theres a litany of problems. Ebola and isis beheading. Highest alert. The cdc has increased the Emergency Response to the ebola epidemic. This outbreak is the largest in history, causing the president to send u. S. Military personnel in an attempt to control the spread of the virus. We ha
At some point, isis is going to have a success. And what military success looks like for them is a dead american soldier. We have a dangerous tendency to under estimate the enemy and overestimate our allies in their capabilities. I see us making that exact same mistake now. We need to clearly identify who our friends are. When we give weapons and training to people who we should not trust, people who we would not let on an airplane out of our own airplanes, its inevitable, they will turn against us. I want to see leadership in washington take responsibility for communicating clearly with the american people. It is very personal. I feel like i have a responsibility as a veteran to speak up and ensure that there is a voice. That was iraq war veteran clay hanna in his own words. Who better to react to clay hannas concerns than jim webb, former secretary of navy and a hannas concerns than jim webb, former secretary of navy and a decorated vietnam veteran who the highest tax rate of any maj
The war on terror. Our strategy will fail again. This president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home. Theyre wrong now, as they were then. President obamas moving with caution and calculated force. And this is what we need. Not another rush into war. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. A fight on all fronts. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im chris matthews. Up in philadelphia, four big battles in the news tonight, one with african countries in chaos, the u. S. Gets thrown into the front line in the ebola fight. Two, the United States Supreme Court refuses to fight gay marriage sex, 30 states now will honor samesex marriage. Three, why cant democrats get some respect for fighting the jobs war . Even with ten million new jobs since the bush meltdown. Thats what i want to know. Four, the fight between ben affleck and bill maher on whether to blame islam for the terror wars. Im with affleck. Knocking someones religion is th