later this afternoon, the senate lost vote on a republican bill to repeal president obama s health care reform law. it s a symbolic vote because it s not expected to pass. while the debate on health care continues on capitol hill, some experts are pointing to some simpler solutions to improve health care. for example, what if patients had the easy to read patient friendly medical charts? some say you could actually be healthier if you knew what was going on with yourself. thomas gets is the executive editor of wired and author of the decision tree. why does data help? because i think it s you say when you give people the specific information, a certain path, they can then figure out what works for them. yeah, exactly. so there s a long tradition of paternalism in health care where the doctor knows best and where the doctor should probably make all the decisions. that is a kind of school of wisdom that is largely being questioned so that you know, the patient could actually be a
it s awful. extra crews were brought in to deal with potential power outages. with the ice already on the lines and could cause problems over the next two or three days because that ice is not going to leave. reporter: in indiana, even a huge truck of road salt fell victim to the icy conditions, dumping its 22,000-pound load. and for homeowners, snow melt and shovels were the top-selling items of the day. they make calcium chloride like hockey pucks that people can toss up onto the roof to try and control that. reporter: but manfred deknee advises to keep your four-legged friends in mine. if you have pets in particular, rock salt is not a good choice because it can get into their paws and feet. reporter: what the authorities are saying throughout the midwest and points east, if you don t have to go out, don t go out. leave the car in the garage, perhaps take the sled and enjoy the snow day. thomas, back to you.
has that not even started yet? well, the internet came up this afternoon, this morning. i m trying to remember what time it is. sometime late this morning as we were driving on cairo to alexandria without notice. and the other thing that s happened is the curfew has been extended by a couple hours so people have more time to get out and do the kind of things that you do in ordinary life. i don t it s really too soon to say that thing are turning norm normal, whatever normal is going to be here in the new after these demonstrations have changed this country and affected this country so profoundly. most stores are still not open. people are not going to work. schools i believe are closed everywhere. this whole situation has to play itself out for some time before there s anything approaching the usual. do we know, are organizers still calling on friday as a day of departure to the force mubarak out by the end of the week? i think, thomas, that every
it all of a sudden starts to have meaning, relevance to the way we live our lives. that starts helping us make better decisions. i don t want to be kind of nonchalant about this. these are some very difficult decisions. behavior change and health care are difficult. most of us fail at these things. the opportunity is to get us on a track to making better decisions, and part of that is really giving us some power, giving us a role in our own health care. that s why we went and redesigned these lab tests. it shows how information can be powerful. no, you re slightly right. it would be interesting to see how we advance. we had talked about what s going on in washington today, as i said, it s simply symbolic, but thomas goetz, we appreciate your time. we ll be back with more after this. introducing precise from the makers of tylenol.
had a very frank and candid conversationing with president mubarak. does that mean that mubarak has been told he needs to step down, remove himself from office and get things into this orderly reform? that s the question, thomas, it was posed to robert gibbs in multiple ways, and it was not directly answered. so what we don t know is if the president said to mubarak, you have to leave office right now. all indications the white house and president stopped short of going that far. we know that frank wisner, the retired diplomat, went to cairo, met with mubarak and carried a message from obama saying don t run in september. that s exactly what mubarak announced last night. they are stepping up the rhetoric ever so slightly and saying there s an orderly transition that needs to be taking place. gibbs was clear today that the transition needs to begin now, not tomorrow, not next week, not next month. the sense is they believe that mubarak needs to go sooner rather than later.