oil he seems to have no problem putting u.s. forces there to protect the saudi oil sheikhs. but he loses everything that we have fought for since 9/11. let me tell you something. been to afghanistan. isis is not only in afghanistan. al qaeda, main force as it has existed since 2001, remains in afghanistan. and so does the taliban. if we cut and run from afghanistan, we not only have despoiled or disgraced the deaths of the almost 5,000 u.s. servicemen and women who died there to make that place a safe place so that terrorist groups will not form there, that country will become an islamic state under taliban control with isis operating from there within a matter of months. malcolm nance in paris, 5:52 a.m., arc de triomphe just faintly in the background. malcolm, thank you as always for
so we call those charges. and then there s costs. which are really what will be paid. and of course, there is no such thing as a cost. because commercial insurers like etna or united pay one rate. medicare pays a different rate. typically lower. medicaid pays even lower than that. the only people who pay that kind of bill are people paying full price, chinese billionaires or oil sheikhs. really no relationship to reality. the problem is, the guys who run the hospital, they don t know how much of that really costs them in material of effort, activity and supplies. they re just guestimating it. and then they rack up the numbers. they go in and negotiate about the prices. you have put your finger on something that drives me insane. i consider myself a fairly smart individual.
so we call those charges. and then there s costs. which are really what will be paid. and of course, there is no such thing as a cost. because commercial insurers like etna or united pay one rate. medicare pays a different rate. typically lower. medicaid pays even lower than that. the only people who pay that kind of bill are people paying full price, chinese billionaires or oil sheikhs. really no relationship to reality. the problem is, the guys who run the hospital, they don t know how much of that really costs them in material of effort, activity and supplies. they re just guestimating it. and then they rack up the numbers. they go in and negotiate about the prices. you have put your finger on something that drives me insane.
so we call those charges. and then there s costs. which are really what will be paid. and of course there is no such thing as a cost. because commercial insurers like etna or united pay one rate. medicare pays a different rate. typically lower. medicaid pays even lower than that. the only people who pay that kind of bill are people paying full price, chinese billionaires or oil sheikhs. really no relationship to reality. the problem is the guys who run the hospital they don t know how much of that really costs them in material of effort activity and supplies. they re just guestimating it. and then they rack up the numbers. they go in and negotiate about the prices. you have put your finger on
work was sold for about $84 million. and the new york times is reporting this sold for $300 million just last month. rumor has it the qatar museum wrote the check. but whoever did, it is the most expensive painting ever sold. so if you want people to know that you re mega rich, there s no better way to do that than to buy expensive art. who are these people spending billions? jonathan stone is the chairman of asia art and joins us from hong kong. jonathan, the theory is back in the old days, it used to be the oil sheikhs or the wealthy chinese businessmen snapping up these pieces. does that still hold today? i think one of the great things about the art market is the way it s exploded in the last year. and also the great things is the number of new people coming into