Family had to resort to asking their neighbors to pay for their sons medical bill. Story after story after story about medical insurance denials convinced me that the Affordable Care act will make a difference in reforming Health Care Coverage practices by the Insurance Companies as well as enabling families to avoid the financial travails of bankruptcy. Let me say finally, connecticut has been a leader in Insurance Markets with many leader insurers headquartered in my home state. I am proud that connecticut has been that leader, that its home to many Insurance Companies, and that Access Health connecticut, the individual marketplace in connecticut has been working tirelessly and successfully with these Insurance Firms to put together a groundbreaking exchange. The Kaiser Foundation recently found that the likely cost for a family of four in hartford, connecticut, earning 60,000 a year would be 122 a month. Thats a cost of about a Starbucks Coffee every day. The products being offered
Im liz claman, the last hour of trading, breaking news right now. We told you it would happen, and we told you it would happen here on countdown to the closing bell, billionaire investor, carl icahn, announcing the next big investment, did it on twitter like we said he would moments ago. He said, we currently have a large position in apple, confirming the tweet to me minutes ago. I just got off the phone with carl who told me on the phone were there. We think its extremely undervalued, and we think a bigger buyback is a real opportunity here. Again, he told me right on the phone, minutes ago, we are there. He sounded positive about it, so there it is. Icahn picking a large position in apple, and the stock is moving up. Hes advocating that larger stock buyback, and that is juicing you can see the intraday picture the second it hit twitter, last week, he told the viewers he would make the next big announcement on twitter. There it is. Stock moving up four and twothirds percent or 22 for
His new plan to its use the economy. Since it is only a 20page pamphlet it is hard to keep track of. My plan. [laughter] i found my plan. Here is. Gerri no surprise there. No plan. If it is obamas lastminute ploy to distract voters that he has dropped the ball on the economy. Obama can count on one of them and that is his own. The president voting early in his hometown of chicago the First Time Ever for a sitting president. My next guest is making sure he is not sitting in the white house for long. Joining me now, former governor of New Hampshire and Senior Adviser to the romney campaign. Good to have you here, governor. Appreciate your time. If the stock about the economy. Im sorry . Happy thursday. Gerri said the thursday to you as well. Lets talk about the economy. I read this plan, and four of the president s top five points are points that governor romney made in his five. Plant. It almost picks up the language verbatim. Why should we believe the president is committed to this pla
This morning defended the way hisses change defended the outage. He added that he was, quote, proud of the fact that we had an orderly close. Guys, heres how its playing on the front page of paper it is people have not seen. Nasdaq in fresh market failure is the way the journal puts it across the top of the fold. Nasdaq paralyzed by technical breakdown is the ft. And then, jim, usa today, wall street yawns as nasdaq goes dark. I thought that was the most cogent of all. No one really cared. Bob said everything was good. They did a great job. Its fine. I want to let people know we speak with people around here. They all scoffed and laughed at that. Bob said what he did. I felt what i felt which was that the lack of communication was terrible. I had the unfortunate moment where i had to be on air and had to try to speculate. The way you cut back on speculation is to come out and say, guys, heres what we think is happening. We were all stuck trying to speculate because the communication wa
Its not a costume. Thats the uniform. And he is carrying the weight of the guy he killed excuse me. We had a procession about it under out to the graveyard and we buried him. My sensei doing all that was with trauma, you. The bad staff. And in order to heal from that time you have to dig it up and commemorate it and put it back in the earth. We have literally done that. For the sake they were carrying the war. Wayne karlin teaches language and literature at the college of southern maryland. Hes a southern novelists. This is a nonfiction book. Wandering souls journeys with the dead and the living in viet nam. Professor trained to karlin, thank you for joining us. Coming up, booktv presents after words orientate gases to interview others. This week, dr. Marty makary examines dangers of a hospital stay in his book, unaccountable. The john hopkins surgeon provides an inside look at hospital errors, overtreatment in the closeddoor culture that protects medical practitioners. Discuss the fin