united healthcare for a supplement. -- $143.50 a month to united healthcare for a supplement. medicare paid $78. my supplemental pay $14. in the difference. i was livid. i had to call them every time i go to get a statement. host: what is your question? caller: is there going to be any control on supplemental insurance companies? guest: not that i know of. the doctor has a certain charge. the insurers pay a certain amount. they do not pay the whole thing. it sounds like your supplement is picking up some of the things that medicare does not pay, but not the whole amount your doctor is charging. i do nothing changes in this bill addresses that. host: what percentage of medical care is spent on and of life care? guest: i do not have an exact figure, but it is a lot. it is debated a lot. how do we decide what to spend? it is a big chunk of change. there are a lot of medical problems. we spent a lot, and it varies a lot across the country. there are a lot of reasons for that. it has more hospitals and doctors. in the last year of life, you get more doctor visits and special visits

united healthcare for a supplement. -- $143.50 a month to united healthcare for a supplement. medicare paid $78. medicare paid $78. my sup my supplemental paid $14 in the difference. i was livid. i have to call them every time. host: what is your question? caller: i want to know if there is going to be any control on the supplemental insurance companies. host: julie. guest: not that i know of. the doctor has a certain charge and insurers pay a certain amount of that, they may not pay the whole thing. it sounds like your supplement is picking up some of the things, but not the whole

insurance and forcing workers to subsidize companies with obscence salaries like $3.5 million to the united healthcareeo and on the backs of poor women to have abortions. real access to a single fayer systems. this is nothing less for you to offer the democrats. you've betrayed the very you've betrayed the very principles of the@@@ @ @ @ @ @ guest: this has been a tough year for grumman -- democrats and their president. we started out recognizing especially with the situation with the banks and the financial sector was that we started out with policies that came out of the bush administration. president obama and the democrats and this administration have had to fix. i was not supportive of both bank bailout when it first came out for a vote when i first came into the congress. after one week of seeing what was happening to our financial situation and seeing that people would have to go to theirat atm machines and not being able to withdraw money, i thought it was the right thing to do. much of that money is being paid back. we have to complete the job of regulatory reform. that is next up for us when

insurance and forcing workers to subsidize companies with obscence salaries like $3.5 million to the united healthcare ceo and on the backs of poor women to have abortions. real access to a single fayer systems. this is nothing less for you to offer the democrats. you've betrayed the very principles of the platform. guest: i appreciate the caller's sent iment. this has been a tough year for democrats and our president. we started out recognizing, especially with the situation with the panchings and the financial sector. i was not supportive of this bank bail out when it first came to the vote when i first came into the congress. realizing ordinary people might have to go to their atm machines and not be able to withdraw money because of the severe crunch on credit. much of that money is being paid back by these institutions. it is messed up for us when we come back from our break. i look forward to work with the white house and with democrats in congress to make sure that we have regulation on financial institutions to make sure that this never happens to taxpayers again. we have to come together and

when you're aetna, cigna, united healthcare, any of the plans, the federal government can say to the doctors you cannot participate in the private insurance system unless you do everything that the federal government says. it means they are going to be on the driver's seat for whether you get a stent or bypass, caesarean, whether your obgyn orders a pap smear or pelvic sonogram. everything in medical care. >> what will it do to the practice of medicine? if you have to report to the federal government what your patient tells you, a conversation, about the supreme court has said is the most private and immune from government intrusion that we can have. the patient-physician conversation. you as a physician, if you were to follow this, instead of going into the senate, would have to report to some federal bureaucrat what your patient told you and be guided or regulated by the federal bureaucrat as what you can do. are american doctors trained to be subject to intrusion and commands of federal bureaucrats when it comes to treating their patients? >> so much they want it to be electronic

including the extraordinary unit helping the healthcare system in cr,, >> couric: tonight, arizona's controversy usual new immigration law. police will now be able to make anyone choose prove they're here legally. it triggers demonstrations by both sides and a warning from president obama. i'm katie couric. also tonight, they're supposed to police the financial system. but instead, some s.e.c. employees were watching porn at work while wall street was melting down. in a place where doctors are hard to find, these patients are getting some of the best care in the world as haiti continues its long road back. it started with a home video shot at a zoo. five years later, youtube has become our window to the world. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. arizona has long been on the front lines in the fight over immigration reform. more people enter the u.s. illegally there than anywhere else. is but today the state's

united states host: sorry about that, david. thank you for weighing in. guest: i think you raise an important point. we believe that healthcare is a right. every american is entitled to it. we no longer live in the days where madison was not really that effective. we know, right now, that we can do a lot for individuals, both from treating diseases and chronic conditions, but we also know a lot more about prevention and how to keep people healthy by working together with family and their community to maintain health. the commonwealth care program the caller referred to is the state-subsidized program for people that are not eligible for medicaid that is offered through the connector. we know there are about 160,000 individuals who currently receive health insurance through that program. this is a new program that did not exist before health care reform. what this program does is provide people with insurance so that they can go to the doctor for checkups and treatment when they needed, prior to the health care reform, these people were not covered. they can get care only when they came to the hospital when they were al. they

many federal laws that have individual mandates but the new healthcare law has a provision that appears to mandate each individual in the unitedstates must have some form of healthcare insurance. regardless of the lessons we learned in massachusetts and new york with respect to individual mandates, what makes this administration think it can constitutionally mandate that every american must buy health had insurance? there appears to be a fairly large segment of the population that chooses not to buy health insurance even though they can afford it. this is a basic issue of liberty and i don't like decide ing ing purchase a house or rather to rent. what is it that we think we can impose on the american people and do you think it will survive a constitutional test? >> i'm also not a lawyer, but i have discussed the constitutional challenges with both our legal team and the legal team at the justice department who feel that the commerce clause gives strong constitutional basis for the personal responsibility section of this bill. as you know, when governor romney signed the paste law he felt a critical piece of expanding health co

united states. number two, let them buy it with their own tax-free money. number three, fully deduct all of their healthcareses, whether it's premiums, co-pays, high deductibles, whether it is vision, dental, chiropractor, whatever it is. fully deduct it on the income tax return. and have tort reform, lawsuit abuse reform. if you do those four measures you will dramatically lower the cost for all americans. because in the united states, years ago, it isn't that we didn't provide care for those who weren't able to afford it. we had charity hospitals. and a number of doctors provided free care on a pro bono basis. they did that because they didn't fear lawsuits that would be coming their way. >> chris: congresswoman -- >> today, doctors don't have the luxury. >> chris: i don't mean to interrupt but i want to talk to you about a bunch of issues and we're going to run out of time here. >> go ahead. >> chris: you're one of the favorites of the tea party and you talked about how you believe the tea party will end up supporting and in fact being a great source of strength for the republican party in the 2010 elect

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united states public health service. and as many of you may know, the public health service started and originated as a service to provide healthcareo the merchant marines. so with that nautical theme in mind, i just wanted to start by telling you a little story. i have a lot of friends in this room so you guys probably heard this story. but bear with me. and it's a story about a young ensign who had the duty one night under watch on this big battleship and he noticed out in the distance there was a light and he plotted out the course and he realized that he was right in the direct path of a great battle hip and he flashed out a wonderful that you're nath path of a big battleship and alter your course. he waited for a reply and he said no, you attar your course. so he got the captain. the captain came and assessed the situation. plotted out the course. came to the same conclusion. the captain flashed out a warning, you're in direct path of a great battleship alter your course immediately. waited for a reply. reply came back, no you attar your course. so by this time it was getting pretty late so they had to wake up the admiral. and