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Months before you can get into a high-risk pool. tough go without insurance or without coverage of your preexisting condition. in addition, high-risk pools are very, very expensive. i know dr. matthews has talked about the minnesota high-risk pool. so i did a little research this morning and it would cost me under the minnesota high-risk pool $2200 a month in premiums. that is not including deductibles, co-pays and so on. rick: merrill, let me talk to dr. merrill matthews about this. these are concerns people have. conservatives certainly said they want to see people with these preexisting conditions get coverage. they just think that a better way is these high-risk pools. as you listen to what our other guest was saying how do you answer those concerns? why should someone with a preexisting condition be forced to wait six months or a year to be covered for treatment of that, like cancer or medication for high blood pressure, that kind of thing? well, first let s get the ....
united arab emirates and in qatar. they are all within striking range of these ballistic missiles. most of them are medium-range missiles. some are shahab-3, those are the longest range missiles they have tested. according to the iranian revolutionary guard those missiles have a range of 800 miles. they can go up to 1200 miles. of course israel, the border of israel is about 600 miles from iran. according to the iranian revolutionary guard commander in charge of this exercise he said, quote, these bases are all in range of our missiles and the occupied lands. that means israel. all are also good targets for us. that is according to the commander of the revolutionary guard s aerospace division. this is the third day of war games. iran flexing it muscles as the e.u. and others impose a oil embargo on iranian nation. arthel? arthel: jennifer griffin. thank you very much for that report. rick: america s election headquarters up and running this 4th of july. the president is ....
rick: hello, everybody, happy 4th of july. thanks for spending part of it with us. a brand new effort to salvage diplomacy and salvage a nuclear stand you have a. i m rick folbaum in for jon scott. i m arthel neville in for jenna lee talks this week are intended to clarify aspects of tehran s nuclear energy work and set the stage for political negotiations. tensions are high since high level talks stalled in june with iran now saying it successfully tested missiles capable of hitting israel as extended economic sanctions went into effect over the country s nuke program. the european union imposing an embargo on iranian crude oil. and washington introducing other measures as deep differences remain over the nature of iran s nuclear work. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live in washington. jennifer, the complexities run abound. reporter: well, arthel, it is interesting. this is the third straight day iran has been carrying out tests, war games in the ....
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] host: we are going to spend the first hour talking about the fate of health care legislation on capitol hill. joining us for this first segment from national journal, marilyn werber serafini. thank you for being here early. i want to show you the front page of the new york times talking about the senate finance committee. they write that the fate of health care overhaul largely rests on the shoulders of six senators who since june 17 have gathered, often twice a day, for many hours at a stretch, in a conference room with burnt sienna walls with conference chairman max baucus. some of the key players, including senator max baucus. senator conrad is here. not in this picture is jeff bingaman. in the back is olympia snowe. why is so much attention focused on the senate committee? guest: out on capitol hill there are five committees working on health reform ....
the thing to compare it with is the will to trillions of dollars a government takeover is going to cost if we go the president s way. .. isn t that a subsidy boy the government plan itself? insure. you re not comparing apples and oranges and employers across the land because of the regulatory environment if employers across the nation had the opportunity to say get me out from this incredible onerous burden of the federal government puts on me just because i am trying to provide health coverage for my employees, please get riyal and they say the alternative is that the washington is running then tell me what employer in his or her right mind would say no. i do not want to do that? take that headache off my plate. it is phenomenal part of it is fantasy to believe the federal government will not crowd out private industry and end private health insurance as we know it. we need to move on but i had a car company in my office the other day that was not currently owned b ....