First off, the cold war between russia and the west over ukraine is getting worse. Ukraines leader says his military must be ready for a fullscale invasion from russia. Ill talk about putins plans for the summer with the American Ambassador to the united nations, Samantha Power from kiev. Then this week the white house announced plans to beef up operations in iraq. More troops more training more weapons, maybe more bases. Will it work . Is it the right way to take on isis . Also how to get people to have more unprotected sex. Really. Well actually how to get them to have more babies. Thats what many countries from denmark and singapore are trying to figure out. A report on the declining demo demographics of rich countries. Finally, would you pay 10 for a can of coke . How about a ben franklin for a fresh melon . These sky high prices are found in a place where the u. N. Says almost 70 of the population live below the poverty line. Well take you there. But first here is my take. Of the
To control those nerves of yours, my dear. Vo geico, committed to providing service to its Auto Insurance customers for over 70 years. More information on Auto Insurance at geico. Com or 1800947auto any time of the day or night. Rose funding for charlie rose was provided by the following kohl captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Steven brill is here, he wrote the cover story of this weeks Time Magazine. It is called bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. It is the longest piece by a single author ever published by time. It took brill seven months to research and write. He analyzes bills from hospitals, doctors an Drug Companies to paint an extraordinary picture of medical overspendingment im pleased to have Stef Steven Brill back at this table, welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose what got you here this longest piece. As you know i like to pick topics where i just feel that im curious about them. And for a long time i ha
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Steven brill is here, he wrote the cover story of this weeks Time Magazine. It is called bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. It is the longest piece by a single author ever published by time. It took brill seven months to research and write. He analyzes bills from hospitals, doctors an Drug Companies to paint an extraordinary picture of medical overspendingment im pleased to have Stef Steven Brill back at this table, welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose what got you here this longest piece. As you know i like to pick topics where i just feel that im curious about them. And for a long time i have just been curious about why healthcare costs so much. You know, weve had years of debate about who should pay for health care. How should we do insurance, and who should pay the bills. But ive never seen anyone stop to say hey, wait a minute, how come if will cost you 20 or 25,000 dollars i
Positive. Saw a real strong rally from the bottoms of 12,8 to above 14,000 and trace to around 113,6, 13,550 you put your feet back in the water again. Youd be buying the dips . Id be buying the dips, cautiously and looking for the news items and looking cautiously at that well. The market is looking for another shoe to drop. Which shoe are you looking at most carefully, the fed news or the mumtales from hewlettpackard coming out . Fundamentals are having more of an impact than expected. Looking at walmart earnings, the market looked at those with a little bit of discouragement. Those are the issues in front of us. Where are earnings Going Forward into the next few quarters . Thanks, harry. As always, the market, a crazy day. Earnings coming up from hewlettpackard. David faber will have that and Bob Benmosche talking about his numbers from aig. Second hour of the closing bell right now. Ill seal you tomorrow. Have a good one. And it is 4 00 on wall street. Do you know where your money
Much. Whoses making the money. Ges making money on the cat scans, the hospital c. E. O. It turns out is making 2 or 3, or 4 million. That is the stuff i started to find out. Rose you did what any good reporter does, go to the original source. I just got bills am everybody said first you will never get bills because there are proif see issues. I said well i will promise the patients privacy but some of these patients will be so angry they will beg me to put their names in, which is what happened. And then came the really hard part. The bills if you have ever looked at a hospital bill and you may not have because you have good insurance, the bills are indecipherable. They are in like double code. And no consumer can understand those bills. Theyre acronyms, numerical codes and line by line i just decoded them. And figured out what they cost. For example, if one of the patients is getting a cancer drug from memorial sloankettering, i figured out how much it cost the hospital to buy that dr