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question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. yes, sir? hi. my name is steven spitz. i have two related questions on costs. one, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. i gave them my insurance information. and they came back and they said, we don t know. i d like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs? i might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my out-of-pocket costs. the second question is medicare part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. white, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. and my question is why is that bill in the law? do you want to take that one, ed? why don t you start. i ll do the first one, and the second one real quick. t ....
as you can in stating your question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. yes, sir? hi. my name is steven spitz. i have two related questions on costs. one, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. i gave them my insurance information. and they came back and they said, we don t know. i d like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs? i might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my out-of-pocket costs. the second question is medicare part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. white, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. and my question is why is that bill in the law? do you want to take that one, ed? why don t you start. i ll do the first one, and t ....
in spain, down by 4/10 of 1%. all of the currencies are declining against the dollar. there is some corporate news today. surging sales in china helping to lift the touch equipment company s profit in the third quarter. sales are up 4% on a comparable basis, and just narrowly missing estimates. at focus, the 126-year-old dutch company is to help technologies. they have moved away from their historic roots in manufacturing lightbulbs, tv s, and compact disc players. shares are up by 1%. big news in japan. this is a great chart here. it rose for a 15th straight day today, matching the run of gains seen in march 1988. shinzo abe s coalition retaining its majority in the election on sunday, signaling a continuity with that platform of one of terry easing monetary easing. day the nic ka once again. it is trading at its highest level in almost five years. this was the last election in 2012. this is the most overbought nikkei in about five years. julie: we are stalling out ....
and latest on carrie fisherer after the actress had a heart attack in mid flight. your news starts now. we want to start you off with breaking news. this is a live look at the scene of crash involving multiple cars that killed at least one person. this is east capital, bening road, north east d.c. it happened after officers tried to pull over a stolen car we re told officers spotted the car 7:20 tonight and recognized it as stolen in a robbery earlier this week. the officers tried to pull the car over and the car took off and was involved in three car crash east capital. an adult male died. they did arrest a juvenile bheel was in the stolen car. the length of the chase i don t have that detail right now, it s going to we have our major crash unit out here it will take time to piece it together regarding the crash. but we do have one suspect in custody that was the one who created the pursuit and all this devastation. police say the other person injured in the ....
of the suspect and to the back of the patrol car. police, say they did recover that rifle at the shell station. and, more or rest a little bit farther down the highway. at least two more suspects. we do not know at this point have a discussion of that car or the people involved. we do not have anything else in regard to why the two cars were shooting at each other. reporter: we have had several of the shooters. shotting reporter: 67 and shooting. on high way for many of them deadly. a young mother was killed on the freeway. we have had 7 shootings on hwy 4. reporter: now, and they point reporting live at the shell station. i am kate k goal. vicki: stretch of highway four safer for drivers. the pittsburg police department is asking the city council for funding tonight.to buy new surveillance cameras for the city. vicki: to see a car was shot at several times. they are concerned about the recent spike. anyone with information on the shooting is asked to conta ....