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aetna, aon, simon property, tyson foods and weyerhaeuser will report, as well. it's hard to switch from this huge global sell-off to companies betting the farm on these little baby ads. 30 seconds, $3 million. chump change, right? >> yeah. but the good news is that those ads look to be sold out this year. miami will be the center of the sports universe this weekend at super bowl xliv. it's going to be the most watched event every year, even those who don't watch football will be tuning in. darren rovell is in miami to experience the atmosphere. i just wonder whether the new orleans saints, never made it to the super bowl before, whether them getting to the super bowl is sort of a met for for the rebuilding of new orleans itself post katrina? bearing in mind that they were going to leave the superdome. >> yeah, absolutely. after katrina, the superdome was like a staging ground. it wasn't a place for the super bowl. and forget about luxury suites and everything else. nowhere else is in trouble in terms of a football town. and now that they're in the super bowl for

insurance company aetna now will cover nuvasive's spinal surgery procedure. rockwell medical technologies lost more than a quarter of its value. it received disappointing results for an experimental anemia drug. next week, pfizer may bare watching. late today, the company said it was the target of a criminal investigation in oklahoma regarding the marketing of an organ transplant drug. and that's tonight's market focus. >> tom: a top lawmaker is questioning whether toyota has come clean about its defects. congressman edolphus towns chairs the committee that hauled in toyota executives to capitol hill this week, today, he said internal documents show the automaker deliberately withheld information about defects in past court cases. now towns wants to know if toyota kept similar details from the national highway traffic safety administration. he's giving toyota's north america president until march 12 to respond. here's what we're watching for next week. our friday "market monitor" guest is richard steinberg. president of steinberg global asset management. janu

walmart and when you go to use your health insurance to fix your broken leg, it is walmart at not aetna who pays it back. they are so big that s.a.l.t insuring like that make sense. many big employers find it could to self-insure in that way. and what does walmart do best? they use their economies of scale to get good deals of they are getting very good health insurance deals. nobody else can do that to the degree walmart can so if you have a competitor such as target was providing a local level of health insurance, you get the right regulation pass you raise target's cost. walmart lobbyed for the minimum wage. everybody complains about their wages. they pay $10 mort everywhere and more than $12 an hour and a high cost of living. i worked in a single screen 100-year-old movie theater honed by some guy who lived on the block when i was a kid. i earned $4.50 an hour. minimum wage earned by a high school kid after basketball college goes to the hardware store. home depot, i don't know about home depot but its minimum wage goes up from $5.50 to $7.15 that hurts smaller competitors. it helps

of aetna, which was a very interesting experience.d then when we went over to the house and spoke to the leadership there, they said, "we want your voice to be heard here." and we testified there. and so we actually thought we were starting to get our foot in the door. and then we had some amendments that were introduced that were good amendments. they would have substituted a national single payer system for the legislation that was going through, so we were really pushing on that. and then we saw that all of that fell apart. >> moyers: and then? >> well, what we learned through this process is there was a lot of control coming from the white house. and they did not... they wanted to pass something. they were putting everything off on passing something in health care reform. and they were concerned that if we let the single payer voice in, or if it was associated in any way with a legislation, that it would hurt their ability to pass that legislation. so they kind of put the kibosh on it. >> moyers: the white house. >> yes, it really

there were a couple of senators, including egregiously senator joe lieberman who represents aetna, weho was much more concerned about protecting their profits than doing the job of the american people. he stripped out of the senate bill most of the provisions that would have protected americans, which i view as an enormous problem. many of those are being fixed. the outline the president released monday fixed some of the egregious problems with the senate bill. i think when it comes to negotiations between house and senate we will see additional improvements. but we've got a majority in both the house and senate for a good, solid bill that will actually fix health care for the american public. host: louisville, ky. danny is a democratic collar -- caller. caller: i am a registered democrat but generally what i do for the issues is i research of them myself -- research them myself to find out who is telling the truth. my wife is and health care, my son was interested, so i started looking around at it and i saw a couple of things -- of course, the first thing is where the money is comin

aetna has the swine flu. the bid/ask down big time there. there's the 4:00 p.m. price. really a disappointing earnings number there. and here's the big one. medical cost ratio the amount of premiums used to pay for medical care up to 85% from 81%. tyson, keep plucking that chicken. there you go. eps 42 cents a share versus 18 cents and there you can see again that the bid/ask spread is pretty wide there. that company 42 cents versus 18 cents. revenues above line there. beef volume sales up, chicken volume up. let's go to simon properties there, basically a so-sorority as we look at simon, the big reap there and it looks to open roughly level. profit down 41%. estimates there 2010 adjusted funds 5.87 a share versus 5.59 estimate. things may be looking better there. that's your earnings haiku for this hour. back to you all. >> thank you very much, sir. >>> s&p right now minus 270. now 3. jumping around a little bit. we are now below fair value so now we're looking at a slightly lower open at the bell. coming up next, we're going to the street. >> and later problems in eur

even if you have a gold-plated plan from aetna, the government will be instructed what your job -- yourmething away from you as precious as life itself. for liberty. i am going to back up these claims with specific language from the bills, so i have handed out to all of you a set of quotes that i will be referring. take them home -- this is a reminder of what is at stake here. the president has promised that if you like your health plan, you can keep it. but the language of the bills prove that that is not true. a house bill specifically says that if you get your health plan for your employer, your employer will have a five-year grace period and then be required -- legally required -- to move you into the plan the government wants you to have, the so- called government designed plan. if you buy your own insurance, you will not have a grace period. you will be legally required to move into that qualified plan the minute anything in your current contract changes. for example, a copiague are deductible, that kind of thing you generally change yearly. 18 months after the bill has passed, th