and the insurance offered by your employer? dr.~marc siegl has been an outspoken critic of the president s healthcare law, a professor of medicine at new york university langone medical center and a fox news medical a-teamer. having the conversation with your doctor where do you start. 2014 is looming. you start with your doctor by asking her or him will you going to be still taking my insurance, are you going to be in private practice? can you afford the expenses of private practice? will you be moving to a hospital? will you be shrinking your practice, taking less medicare patients? if a patient is reaching 65 they may have a rude awakening. their doctor may be shrinking medicare. 2% under sequestration. a lot of the procedures are getting cut. doctors in the future are going to be reinforced for quality care, what is called quality care. that means if you re sick we may not get paid as much for seeing you if we can t show that we are getting you better. we are going to struggle wi
the capacity to do a long-term commitment somewhere? would we be able to respond to two major contingencies at the same time? i think that will be very difficult under sequestration. maybe we could do one moderate one. tho so those are the kind of things we have to help identify. jamie: army strong. i hope you get all the support you need. thanks for your service. thank you. jamie: moderate circumstances is hard to imagine that north korea could be that. but the army chief is doing everything it can to take care of our troops and be prepared for whatever comes our way. and defense secretary hagel called north korea the threat from them a real and clear danger, agreeing with the general that we have so far had measured and serious responses and we have no intention to change that. i want to thank lieutenant colonel kathleen turner and
republican governor rick scott actually agrees writing to the president, he says, quote, the impacts on florida s military installations and defense industries will be severe under sequestration. our immediate concerns include dramatic reductions to our national guard, which threatens our ability to respond to wildfires this spring and hurricanes this summer. oh, do they need federal funds to do that? what a handy reminder. governor scott, of course, blamed the president for the sequestration process. by the way, the day before the sequester hits, the house of representatives has taken a long weekend and gone on recess until monday. nice work if you can get it. let s get right to nbc s kristin welker who is at the white house. kristin, the sequester, as you and i know, is just hours away, and so is the president s meeting with congressional leaders tomorrow, is this about the sequester or do you think now that we re going to actually