moammar gadhafi? i ll talk to an expert in the middle eastern region. plus 4:00 eastern, we ll go over fortune magazine s top 40 under 40 list. your $$$$$ starts right now. president obama on the road this week pushing his jobs plan but is he fighting for your job or campaigning for his own. welcome to your $$$$$. i m christine romans, ali velshi is off. chrystia freelander and economist stephen moore. the president traveling through battle grounds on a key trip, wants to push congress to pass every part of his jobs act piece by piece. what is this about? whose job is he looking for. my view is if he had really been serious about passing a jobs bill earlier this year, if he had moved to the middle he might have gotten something through congress. once he started talking about a big tax increase on the rich, there was no way republicans were going to go to that. i think this has become a polit debate, not what we can pass now. that s a problem when you have 4 million
outright confusion. these are live pictures near moammar gadhafi s compound. there have been heavy battles raging around this building. carloads of people have been streaming out of the libyan capital. we want to bring in retired general james spider marks. if you could, tell us about what you are watching, what you are seeing. what do you make of the pictures? with the low level flying that is taking place, bombing gadhafi s compound? suzanne, what you see is obviously a representation of chaos and confusion on the ground. the fact that civilians are fleeing, coming out of tripoli should not be surprising. the rebels are about to force gadhafi s complete departure in some way. that may take hours, that may take days. we still could be a week or so away. but that type of confusion, of what happens next gets folks very, very nervous. they ve got the opportunity now to get out of town, and you re going to see them get out of town and let this thing settle out. i think you l
have a shrinking number of doctors and hospitals accepting medicare. one dirty secret about the government funded healthcare is how hard is it to get a doctor because they are paid so little. the cost of medicaid shared by the state and the federal government. the state manage it and approach it in very different ways. larger, more urbanized, more politically liberal states tend to provide more generous eligibility. making them further up the income scale eligible for medicaid. some states offering benefit with incomes as high as 300% of poverty. close to $60,000 for a family of three. that drives up costs. to afford them, they pay the doctors rock bottom rate. primary care physician in new york state is paid a third from medicaid what that doctor would get from say an elderly medicare patient, paid under medicare. california pays 36% of what medicare pays. raising the question of being eligible means anything if you
reporter: and medicare pays less than private insurance. now, the cost of medicaid, health care for the poor, are shared by the states of the federal government but the states manage it and approach it in very different ways. what you tend to see is that larger, more urbanized, more politically liberal states tend to provide more generous eligibility. reporter: in fact some states had expanded eligibility to people with incomes as high as 300 percent of poverty, that s close to $60,000 in income, for a family of three. but that drove up the cost, so to make it affordable those states had to pay doctors rock bottom rates. the worst offender is new york state. a primary care physician in new york state gets paid about one third for medicaid what that doctor would get from, say, an elderly medicare patient, paid under medicare. and less than half in california, raising the whether of the question of whether being eligible means anything if you can t
doctors and hospitals accepting medicare. one dirty secret about the government funded healthcare is how hard is it to get a doctor because they are paid so little. the cost of medicaid shared by the state and the federal government. the state manage it and approach it in very different ways. larger, more urbanized, more politically liberal states tend to provide more generous eligibility. making them further up the income scale eligible for medicaid. some states offering benefit with incomes as high as 300% of poverty. close to $60,000 for a family of three. that drives up costs. to afford them, they pay the doctors rock bottom rate. primary care physician in new york state is paid a third from medicaid what that doctor would get from say an elderly medicare patient, paid under medicare. california pays 36% of what medicare pays. raising the question of being eligible means anything if you