all. well, it is a hard time and all of us are exhausted, both mental and physical. so it is really hard time. reporter: retired u.s. air force colonel gordon peters has deep experience helping families deal with trauma. he calls the situation terrible. they have no closure. they re not able to say let s deal with this, let s discuss it. they still have confliction. a sense of loss keeps perpetu e perpetuating. family members are stuck inside this conference room for hours each day. many tell me they still believe their family members are still alive, even if logically the chances seem quite remote. they go to bed at night and they probably logically know it s happening, but they don t
at least wants those to be fixed. but republicans are folk ug s on things like whether or not kathleen sebelius will buy insurance on the exchange not designed for her because she already has employer health insurance. democrats on other hand are trying to defend the website. it just left me asking the question, and i don t mean this to be snarky or simplistic, but what are these hearings actually accomplishing? who are they really for? are they actually doing any good in solving the problems that we re facing with this law right now? no, but they are doing something in terms of perpetu e perpetuating the problem. that gets back to the previous question. there has been an element of sabotage in slowing these down, the exchanges are not working in states where there are republican governors not participating in the exchanges. in the larger picture here, if the republicans continue to cast doubt on obama care, make it look like a disaster in all
agency. and they re judging the w worthiness that s right, they were giving these junk loans. the other is fannie mae and freddie mac who were providing 100 maer 100% taxpayer guarantees on these bills. there is nothing in this bill that says that. let s go through the bill. what are the biggest wins here for, first, consumers? consumers are quite a bit better off, i suspect. the reason for that is over time consumer finance has been a classic race to the bottom business when it comes to practices. as someone who wants to compete with sort of honest and transparent practices, competing against people with shady and non-transparent practices, there is no way to win, and as a result everyone keeps perpetu e perpetuating a carnival of bad acts. what about for financial firms? it s a bit of a mixed bag.