>> hirsch: zero.stahl: he had the right type of loans, but the wrong type of repayment plan-- so he had another decade to go! >> hirsch: all of my kids are going to college. and so, i am taking out parent- plus loans to help pay for their college-- >> stahl: oh, no-- >> hirsch: --at the same time that i am making payments on my loans. >> stahl: heather, you were in afghanistan for a year? >> tregle: yes. >> stahl: so did that year count toward your 120 months? >> tregle: half of it did. >> stahl: army jag major heather tregle, mother of two, doesn't know why those six months didn't count. she always stayed on top of her loan, even when she was in war zones! like when she was in kandahar and noticed her loan servicing company suddenly hiked up her payments. >> tregle: so i spent days-- because when you're in afghanistan, you only can call for 20 minutes at a time-- >> stahl: you're calling from over there? >> tregle: correct. so, you had to use a morale line to call. and it cuts off after 20 minutes. s

joining us now is doug hirsch from the conference in boston.f the big catalysts for so many industries over the last couple years has been the pandemic and i'm wondering it doesn't necessarily affect drug pricing -- as covid changed the way your business works? >> a lot of people couldn't get to the doctor. i think it really turbocharged telehealth. they couldn't get to the pharmacy. and of course really trying to prove access. good rx has a service that really blew up over the course of the pandemic. matt: i could see him telling visits would lower cost substantially for everybody in the industry. in terms of the price of the actual pills, it doesn't seem like it would make a dent in it. mail-order makes more sense to me. what do you see on the cusp of changing prices for drugs? >> i don't think the pandemic impacted the cost of jet -- doves. -- drugs. the full price of drugs can be hundreds of dollars for something that should cost five dollars. work good rx really exploded is that people had some sort of coverage change and they were left ho

asking power producers to import up to 10 percent of their coal needs to avoid raising prices. item hirsch's earth, visiting contrast at the economic policy institute, he joins me from old orchard beach in maine. thanks. so much for being with us. what would you say the main factors are behind this global power crunch? you know, every electric utility has its idiot. secrecy is based on the political compromises when they were set up. but what underlying this problems everywhere in the world are spikes and global commodity energy prices. this is very common when the economy goes into downturn. and this what happened last year as we saw an economic activity . thank. we saw a producer start slow down their production and start to mothball some of their least efficient facilities. then as the economy resumed, activity demand started picking up. because these are heavy industries, it takes time to start them up. takes investments that the producers are willing to do until they're certain that demand can be sustained. so while you have the demand for energy increasing, you don't have the supply ca

i think doug hirsch was on with jim cramer and talked about some of the relationships with walmart andh has been ridiculous if you look at last quarter >> this is more than not just being -- if you look, they have a subscription platform, but more of it is just people who download the app and get a coupon as i did today. bingo, you save $70. i think it's a mix of things these guys make money by being in cahoots with pharmacy benefits managers and do that by splitting some of the take they take margin out of distribution there is a benefit here. there is competition i am surprised there is not more i should say, guy, when i saw short interest, i tried to figure out what that was i think it's tied with anything with tam and margins i was looking at this and i can't find a huge negative i am sure somebody is going to hit me up on twitter with that pretty soon. but i think that's interesting >> 24% short interest, herb, it checks the boxes in this investment age where mean stocks rule did that cross your mind >> no, it didn't this is not a short-term deal. i look at enrique and gabeand the

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>> commissioner hirsch: i had one more. i noted that the vaccination rate for the white population is only 65%. are we also extending our efforts to also improve on that? >> yeah. i think we are definitely looking into the data and trying to determine exactly where that is. is it the age group or certain population. i think the other thing that we are seeing is very effective. you're seeing this across the city is vaccine mandates do work. they can be that last push to get some of the populations that have not been traditionally vaccinated to the vaccine table. specifically in our young adult population we're seeing that in 25 to 35-year-olds. that may help getting the rates up. >> president bernal: seeing no other questions or comments, we can move to our next item, which is general public comment. secretary morewitz. >> clerk: if you like make a comment on item 6, please press star 3 now. this is general public comment. i see few hands. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to