smerconish, let s ask ourselves if a tax hike to pay for single payer health care would be more than our current insurance premiums. i sure hope that people were paying attention to what health care ceo to handle the situation with white house and congress just said. i mean, the individual mandate, the requirement that everybody has insurance which was derided as, you know, big brother telling us what we need to do. if you don t have it and you re requiring insurance companies to pay for those with preexisting conditions, rates are going to go awfully high. they need for sustainability, everybody to jump into the pool. which makes sense. up next, after examining brains of 202 deceased football players, a neuropathologist found so many had brain damage that she concluded, quote, it s no longer debate whether or not there is a problem in football. there is a problem. is america s pastime now in
that s one of the big messages that this work is showing. is that it s probably not those handful of hits to the head that caused symptoms that s causing the brain to essentially begin to rot over the rehe relevant rf your life. the clear trend of thousands of hits you take with the number of years you play and your risk of adopting cte. is there any rule change that you could conceive of that would address this irk assue and put e the concern you have today? so, the changes that we need to see in football in my belief are not the ones that we re talking about. we re not going to create a helmet that s going to solve this problem. the number one way that we can reduce cte in both future nfl players and throughout all football players in the whole ecosystem would be to reduce the number of years that they play. i think we should get rid of
how dangerous is professional football to a player s brain? a new study published by the jirnl ever the american medical association studied the brains of 202 deceased football players. these were brains donated to them by concerned family members. of those, 111 had played for the nfl. and of the 111, 110 were found to have signs of neurodegenerative disease, cte short for chronic traumatic encephalopathy. symptoms, memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, aggression, depression, anxiety, impulse control and sometimes suicidal behavior. joining me now is chris
participation trophy. what do i look like here? i have one p.s. to the previous conversation. al gore sold currency to al gentlem i kind of want everybody to get recognized. i want stellar achievement to be recognized. geraldo. the kid was like three years old playing tackle football and you were defending him. come on, kid. you can do it. i know you re puking, but come on. there s a california mayor that said about this bullying, he told people that most people
you put 13-year-old boys on a field playing flag football without gear, they re probably going to withstand more hits when they re not intending to. sometimes those are the worst because they re not prepared. they don t have the equipment. but what do i know? i can t tell you how many injuries i ve seen playing touch football with a bunch of friends on a saturday or sunday. it s scary. e-mail us or go to our facebook page, let us know whether or not you think it is a good idea to ban kids under 14 from playing tackle football. he plans a new bill that would make it illegal for kids to head the soccer ball before the age of 14. facebook us, twitter us or e-mail us, friends@foxnews.com. next up, there is a big shortage of one key thanksgiving ingredient. what is it? stick around. another obamacare promise the president cannot keep. if you like your doctor, too bad. stuart varney is here with the details.