host: john, independent caller bank for julie rovner -- caller for julie rovner. before we get started, i want to tell you i have a dog in the fight. i'm a physician in the vancouver area. i don't think the general public realizes that in the contracts i find with blue cross blue shield and other insurance companies, they pay me based on a percentage of what medicare pays. if medicare rates drop, and guess what happens to me with my in, with other insurance companies? they dropped. there is an issue with a physician's there. the other problem i ran into as well is that i run into patients at willing to spend a little bit more out of pocket to stay with me, but it is getting harder and harder for me as a practitioner and small business owner to keep up with the costs for migy clients, tests for my employees, my equipment costs and other things. i don't think those aspects are taken into consideration when these debates occur. host: what would you say to the doctor? guest: one of the issues is the uncertainty. congress had to deal with this will they or what they cu

host: john, independent caller bank for julie rovner -- caller for julie rovner. caller: before we get started, i want to tell you i have a dog in the fight. i'm a physician in the vancouver area. i don't think the general public realizes that in the contracts i find with blue cross blue shield and other insurance companies, they pay me based on a percentage of what medicare pays. if medicare rates drop, and guess what happens to me with my in, with other insurance companies? they dropped. there is an issue with a physician's there. the other problem i ran into as well is that i run into patients at willing to spend a little bit more out of pocket to stay with me, but it is getting harder and harder for me as a practitioner and small business owner to keep up with the costs for migy clients, tests for my employees, my equipment costs and other things. i don't think those aspects are taken into consideration when these debates occur. host: what would you say to the doctor? guest: one of the issues is the uncertainty. congress had to deal with this will they or what

and julie rovner from npr to talk about the president's implementation of the health- care bill. that is tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span and c-span radio. thank you for joining us. i hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> as far as how states are viewing debt discussions in washington, what concerns among chief executives like yourself? >> the concerns are two-fold. the biggest concern and the more inaction we have been out of washington, d.c., the more upset this causes in our own economies and state. consumer confidence and business confidence is affecting my economy. you can imagine my consumer confidence is down. i'm not getting revenues and it is affecting the coffers of state government. a number of those in the business community have money but have not been willing to hire simply because of the uncertainty of what is going on in washington, d.c. that really has a direct impact but not just my state. with all

and national public radio correspondent julie rovner. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> joining us from salt lake city, governor christine gregoire. she serves as the chair for the association. governor, thank you for your time today. >> joining us this sarah murray from the wall street journal. as far as how states are giving that top discussions here in washington d.c., what are the concerns among chief executives like yourself among what is going on? >> i think the biggest concern the biggest concern and the more inaction we have been out of washington, d.c., the more upset this causes in our own economies and state. consumer confidence and business confidence is affecting my economy. you can imagine my consumer confidence is down. i'm not getting revenues and it is affecting the coffers of state government. a number of those in the business community have money but have not been willing to hire simply because of the uncertainty of what is going on in washington, d.c. that really has a direct impact but not just my state. with all the individuals

julie rovner of n.p.r. has been covering this story and joins us now. >> nice to be here. >> brown: explain the context a bit more here. this group was asked by the government to come up with a list. >> that's right. now the law as it passed last year wanted to encourage people who had insurance to take advantage of more preventive care. so it said the way to do that was to basically make it free. you pay your premiums but you don't have to pay any co-pays or deductibles to get preventative care. there were three categories of preventative care that were automatically covered that were written right into the legislation, certain services that were listed by the u.s. preventative health services, things like mammograms and colonoscopies, certain services that were listed by the american academy of prix for children and adolescents and vaccines that were listed by the c.d.c.'s vaccine category. there was a fourth category that came about because senator barbara mikulski from maryland got an amendment added th

host: julie rovner, thanks as always for your time this morning. guest: my pleasure. host: we appreciate your calls. we will be back tomorrow morning as we are every day with "washington journal." for now we go live to the brookings institution here in washington. they are going to have a talk on congressional redistricting. the moderator is thomas mann, senior fellow at brookings. several speakers. live coverage on c-span. enjoy the rest of your day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] we understand some of you are compelled to tweet revenue are. if you do, we know that is the event hashtag. i know you are shocked that i said that, but there it is. [laughter] >> it was written down. >> six months ago, we had a session here, almost to the day. today, we're going to take stock of how the process is unfolding and with what consequences. why do people pay so much attention to redistricting? first of all, is a fascinating game, political junket we cannot resist. we can start talking about the mid