dan hilferty is ceo and president of independence health group, one of the loading health insurance inates and washington, d.c. he was chosen by his blue cross ceo peers to lead the entire association at this critical juncture. and in that role has met in the white house with the president. he's also had conversations with senate leaders including mitch mcconnell. dan, how critical for you, in this context, given all the uncertainty, to run your business? >> well, michael, let's take a step back. >> go ahead, dan. >> i apologize. let's take a step back and look at the system. when you think of our membership, we have approximately 85% of our members come through the traditional employer-based system and through medicare and medicaid. we're talking about 6% of the population comes through the state exchanges or the federal exchange or comes through -- or are still uninsured. let's talk about the first three, commercial market place, medicaid and medicare. they're functioning extremely well. 85% of our business. can they be improved? absolutely. we can continue to drive down cost, we can

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. >> dan hilferty, thank you, i appreciate it. >> thank you, michael. >> i know there's a lot of feedbackitter and my facebook page. let's see what we got. smerconish, let's ask ourselves if a tax hike to pay for single payer health care would be more than our current insurance premiums. i sure hope that people were paying attention to what health care ceo to handle the situation with white house and congress just said. i mean, the individual mandate, the requirement that everybody has insurance which was derided as, you know, big brother telling us what we need to do. if you don't have it and you're requiring insurance companies to pay for those with preexisting conditions, rates are going to go awfully high. they need for sustainability, everybody to jump into the pool. which makes sense. >>> up next, after examining brains of 202 deceased football players, a neuropathologist found so many had brain damage that she concluded, quote, it's no longer debate whether or not there is a problem in football. there is a problem. is america's pastime now in jeopardy. >>> do you think there's a wa