corporations like aetna cigna and humana expecting that they also they too will post big profits and health care c.e.o. stephen j. hensley who happens to be the highest paid c.e.o. in the nation making over one hundred million dollars last year is said to be sitting pretty on a stock portfolio of well over a billion dollars so how is all this money flowing into the health insurance companies coffers is what we all expect but they're using our premium dollars to pay for new yachts instead of paying for medical care and we need your offer some answers as someone who knows the business of for profit health insurance very well wendell potter a former vice president of corporate communications for cigna turned health care industry whistleblower and currently the senior fellow on health care for the center for media and democracy he's also the author of the book deadly spin and insurance company insider speaks out about how corporate p.r. is killing health care and deceiving americans run but welcome to the program. why is united health care rolling in dough worded this is how can how can

vets trying to reenter the work force are finding on that cigna quite ironic place. the war memorial building in sflan. that's where jean elliott is live on how the money or the lack of it is the real roadblock here. >> reporter: the war memorial building will be close in the 18 months for seismic retrofitting. in the meantime the american region wants to set up a veteran center in vacant space. it sounds simple enough but nothing is simple when money is tight. >> april 2004, we had more wounded marines in that battle than since the battle of vietnam. >> reporter: he is devoted to veterans. he is keenly aware troops returning from iraq and afghanistan are facing a crisis. >> six out of ten can't get a job. and we really need to do something about that. >> reporter: the american legion war memorial commission wants to help. >> because they don't have jobs, i feel very, very moved to make sure we have the smooth transition. >> reporter: it raised $47,000 to open a veterans resource center at the war memorial building in san francisco. members want to set up shop on the

the president has been devoting as cigna didn't amount of time to immigration even though there is little if any chance of the security lining up. henry >> i have the best assignment for bay to breakers. i get to be on the hill. i get to watch the peak moment of the entire race, and whatever but eat struggling. their corn to look exhausted trying to reach the top of the hill. and then you'll get the people that have been with the time it does want to stay for a while. i'm looking forward to it coming up. >>mark: we will have cameras all along the course. complete coverage of the race. sunday, made the team. we will be placed in case you run a to and misled and want to see if you consider yourself. enamel welcome back. top stories we're following renown. and then tried to break into a cockpit. 28 year-old raga musuri. believe he does not have any ties to terrorism. >>darya: the national weather service with mississippi came up just short of 48 degrees. it crested today and memphis and is expected to remain at that point it for the next 20 to 30 hours. depressed is headed now towards louisi

of cigna had to hand wave the annual revenue nineteen point one billion dollars two hundred ninety two million dollars in net income his salary twelve point two million dollars a new report released today warned employers that health care costs are going to continue to rise eight point five percent next year in all probability still two years before obamacare goes into full effect and fifty two million people without health insurance in america so this is pretty obvious that the status quo for profit insurance leeches isn't working for america should we be taking some lessons from vermont. vermont i mean i'm glad you are. because ninety percent of people with out government funding of health care are insured so it's very interesting to see that that's the status quo and yet you still have this bill that's being introduced they have no idea going to pay for it to provide for all those people that ten percent of the population i guess it doesn't have health care and so just when i put those ten percent of people who don't have it they're saying no everybody has to totally revamp with the

our foreign based competitor is on a full range of foreign governme owned oil companies would gain a cigna vacant competitive advantage. -- would gain a significant competitive advantage. they are enomy wide, it generally available deductions and credits under the tax code. removing them for a select few is nothing less than discriminatory and a punitive tax hike is jeopardize the jobs of american workers. doing so would do nothing to reduce the prices americans pay at the pump. gasoline prices are primarily -- bayer said in e marketplace by global supply and demand, not by companies such as ours. furthermore, punishing five u.s. gas and oil companies would generate far less government revenue and if we were allowed to compete and produceur nation's resources. in august 2010, 10 to $17 billion in this country is at risk per year if the section 199 is repealed for our industry. another study found out that opening up federal lands could generate 400,000 new jobs by the year 2025. another analysis shows such actions could generate as much as $1.70 trillion in government revenue. raising taxe

foreign based competitor is on a full range of foreign government owned oil companies would gain a cigna vacant competitive advantage. -- would gain a significant competitive advantage. they are economy wide, it generally available deductions and credits under the tax code. removing them for a select few is nothing less than discriminatory and a punitive tax hike is jeopardize the jobs of american workers. doing so would do nothing to reduce the prices americans pay at the pump. gasoline prices are primarily -- bayer said in the marketplace by global supply and demand, not by companies such as ours. furthermore, punishing five u.s. gas and oil companies would generate far less government revenue and if we were allowed to compete and produce our nation's resources. in august 2010, 10 to $17 billion in this country is at risk per year if the section 199 is repealed for our industry. another study found out that opening up federal lands could generate 400,000 new jobs by the year 2025. another analysis shows such actions could generate as much as $1.70 trillion in government revenue. raisin

in the case of a nontreaty cigna to have, there is no repository, and many of the individuals who have been affected don't bother to file -- certainly historically -- with the united states department of state because there were no services that were provided, no advantages to having done so. so as a result, you have a whole host and percentage of cases who are simply unreported. the second issue is particularly as it relates to american military members abductions from our bases in japan, for example, are considered internal domestic abductions and, therefore, aren't considered as international abductions despite the fact that an american service member may have been living on one of our bases. so if purpose of this hearing is in part to identify how we can improve the rate of return of children, the very first thing you have to do is have a legitimate way of identifying how many children you have and what the problems are. the other issue is that if asession is deposited as it is expected with extensive reservations, it will be a lot worse than form over substance. in a recent press

states marine who participated in operation iraqi freedom, it is again to the country's production -- cigna began to the country's protection. you can watch the killing of saddam hussein online, but you won't -- [unintelligible] host: steve, go ahead. caller: you are doing is plan -- splendid work and -- host: we lost to steve. pensacola beach, florida. caller: i know for days and weeks and months, we watched americans plummet to their death from the towers. they were on it was live. it is ludicrous. to me, a free can watch the sky and the stuff on national television, i did not know why we cannot see a photograph of one man's death, supposedly the most dangerous man in the world. host: here is a graphic in "the wall street journal." digital battlefield. technology allows them to shoot full motion video of the battleground and send it back in real-time. troops on the ground carry small portable receivers that allow them to see digital maps. 3, the digital feed can be distributed to common posts around the globe by satellite. the headline of that storage is spy planes plate indispensable rol

our foreign based competitor is on a full range of foreign government own oil companies would gain a cigna vacant competitive advantage. -- would gain a significant competitive advantage. they are economy wide, it generally available deductions and credits under the tax code. removing them for a select few is nothing less than discriminatory and a punitive tax hike is jeopardize the jobs of american workers. doing so would do nothing to reduce the prices americans pay at the pump. gasoline pces are primarily -- bayer said in the mketplace by global supply and demand, not by companies such as ours. furthermore, punishing five u.s. gas and oil companies would generate far less government revenue and if we were allowed to compete and produce our nation's resources. in august 2010, 10 to $17 billion in this untry is at risk per year if the section 1 is repealed for our industry. another study found out that opening up federal lands could generate 400,000 new jobs by the year 2025. another analysis shows such actions could generate as much as $1.70 trillion in government revenue. raising taxes

and taking his name of the program was the most dramatic way he knew to cigna to the audience that this is not your grandfather's newshour anymore. we're doing business differently. and we are all this together. that's the message. as tom other two, there may be a downside to that in the short term if no one recognizes the name without, the program without his name on. however, we act we see see evidence that this all is working it in the last couple of months our audience in february was up 11% over february of 2010. and in march of this year it was up 16% over march of 2010. so, the point of the exercise we think it's slowly sinking in and people are watching it, for whatever the reason. in part because our mission hasn't changed. we are still delivering series journalism and with more partners now than ever. i'm happy to say a very long list of national collaborators, including nova, npr. to talk about a couple of our own experiences there. american expense, nightly business report. and when i say there's collaborators, he's just our promos like stay tuned, although we don't mind doi

foreign based competitor is on a full range of foreign government owned oil companies would gain a cigna vacant competitive advantage. -- would gain a significant competitive advantage. they are economy wide, it generally available deductions and credits under the tax code. removing them for a select few is nothing less than discriminatory and a punitive tax hike is jeopardize the jobs of american workers. doing so would do nothing to reduce the prices americans pay at the pump. gasoline prices are primarily -- bayer said in the marketplace by global supply and demand, not by companies such as ours. furthermore, punishing five u.s. gas and oil companies would generate far less government revenue and if we were allowed to compete and produce our nation's resources. in august 2010, 10 to $17 billion in this country is at risk per year if the section 199 is repealed for our industry. another study found out that opening up federal lands could generate 400,000 new jobs by the year 2025. another analysis shows such actions could generate as much as $1.70 trillion in government revenue. raisin