no. no. more and more doctors are doing this. in fact, like i said, even hospitals will do this. the problem is it s not getting out there. people aren t aware of this. in fact, in oklahoma city, there is a center called surgery center of oklahoma city, started by doctors. they don t deal with insurance companies at all. they don t deal with medicare or medicaid. they have a very transparent, complete price schedule listed on their web site that includes everything from the surgery, to the nursing care, to the preand post op care. they re competing with the hospitals throughout oklahoma city so effectively that the hospital is starting to hurt cause they re losing customers. brian: thank you for sharing your story and hopefully we put a light bulb on some people s heads who are putting off surgery. thank you. brian: what is the single greatest threat to our national security? al-qaeda overseas? no. the answer straight from the outgoing f.b.i. director, robert muller. and he s
but it s anecdotal. the real evidence shows the extent of the problem is massively overstated and critically we never hear about the positive side of gambling which is true and far outweighs the negative. i think the issue is we don t ledges late by anec ab anecdote. > john: we do. we shouldn t. fair point. there was an an eck d anecdote e slinging around about a kid who lost a lot of money on line and then robbed a bank. they were blaming that on internet gaming. when we look in the uk which has very good statistics on this thing, preinternet gaming, preand post, there wasn t any increase in the percentage of gamblers who had issues. these aren t the causes of the problem. when we start saying well, any timeca somebody robs a bank, we have to look back at what caused them to do that, if it was a shopping problem or a gambling problem or you know, whatever it was, we re going to ban the thing that made them make that
over the next hour we will focus on what you can control because smart is the new rich. we live in a time when there are more people on food stamps in this country than going to college. i m joined by comedian hal sparks, president of capital management and clinical psychologist. we ll start with you. has the great recession changed us forever. it gave us a tremendous smack in the head. preand post barry bonds. before he was pretty good but after juicing. before and after it s like after debt. our credit card use, our saving rates stay between 5 and 6%. there was no accident the first time it went negative since the