what s more, we don t really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, and in a time magazine essay, we re going to take you around the world to study health care systems in other countries. to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan, and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they re doing wrong. we ll also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america, in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in the nation. but first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care, across the atlantic, in great britain. is the nation s health service an evil death panel, as some say? let s take a look. during america s debate over
health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what s more, we don t really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, and in a time magazine essay, we re going to take you around the world to study health care systems in other countries. to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan, and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they re doing wrong. we ll also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america, in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in the nation. but first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care, across the atlantic, in grea
no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what s more, we don t really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, and in a time magazine essay, we re going to take you around the world to study health care systems in is other countries, to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan, and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they re doing wrong. we ll also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america, in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in the nation. but first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care, across the atlantic, in great britain. is the nation s health
restricted. megyn: what you get reimbursed for. the most important bottom line is how difficult it is for me to practice. if i have more and more regulations coming in and insurance companies are restricting services and not giving my patients what they are used to. yet i have more technology to deal with and less time to see the patients, it gets harder to practice. it isn t what i m paid per patient. it s the difficulty factor. what you said is why we need this bill in terms of look at what s going on with insurance companies that don t yet have to accommodate or tell why they are raising rates. we are seeing 40% increases on small businesses in their plans. they are covering less and less. they are doing it only 1% of our cost increase can be put to the healthcare bill. the rest is because of usage of technology and the rest of it and more utilization of
$19,500 per patient. shep? shepard: alicia acuna in denver. thank you. weather center. you know the rule it snows every day. snow and ice collapsing a number of roofs across the country. genes borough, new york, part of afternoon unoccupied sports complex gave away. build up of snow on the dome. this scene in indianapolis. the weight of heavy snow caving in a canopy over the parking garage there, damaging cars inside as well. i heard a sound that sounded like thunder. it was so loud. it was so deafening is the best way i can describe it there was so much falling that your first instinct is to get yourself to safety. shepard: nobody hurt there. airport officials say they don t have a damage estimate yet, because of the weather it could take several months before they can fix the garage. let s get right to our meteorologist shae ryan who is tracking it all from the extreme weather center. we saw 1 to 2 feet of snow in