particularly with low doc, no doc loans. you know, those are very specialized products that until this crisis really got underway, were very rarely use. neighbors use for people in general who had good credit, but may not have an active string of income. so let's use the example of a medical student. recently graduated, secured a job, you know, wants to purchase a home but doesn't have any income at that point. but recently you could look and see that that person will. that was the intent of, say, a low doc, no doc loans. when you look at what happened in the lending industry, those types of loans became almost standardized. in large part because there was a lot of money to be made by putting people in those loans because it would cost a little more to put somebody in that loan so they would be a greater revenue stream. and therefore, more interest and more ability to sell that off to wall street. and unfortunately, there was a lack of either appreciation or interest in the problems that were occurring on the ground not just

i went to see doc cook and some of you may know doc cook from the pentagon. doc, i need some help. he was the mayor there. i don't believe this. the last time that happened -- the last time that happened, i found colin powell sitting in front of me. he said give me that phone. but anyhow, doc cook said, i'll help you. and within a week, i had all schools with partners. he went to the army, the navy, the coast guard and the air force. and they brought in people to help the principal, my partners. they had soldiers show up at some of the schools and that had a great boom to the student body. to the teachers. that worked. first lady hillary clinton had six trips to our schools. she brought her husband on two of them. senator kennedy and his staff were readers in our schools. industry chipped in, general dynamics. permitted their people to come over and become readers in several of our schools. and janet reno, attorney general, conducted monthly conflict resolution classes. to help us out. those positives not withstanding, in the spring of 1998, 18 months after starting, with pressure

the no doc. alright. which is, yeah. i wanted serve on the fact that it was to cover the additional cost of the documentation. and then, i don't know of commissioners have any questions. i guess i have an observation which is as much for the commission has for all of you, is that sitting here today one of the things that strikes me in this actually been striking me more as i have myself learned about the fbi warning in 2004. one of the things i think that's as a commission we looked at as we look at the causes, to also look good this early warning signs that were out there. we know that there were many in many places but i do think you up been very helpful in that respect today. witnesses, thank you very much for coming all the way here. thank you for your time in your testimony. it was extraordinarily valuable and with that the public hearing of the financial crisis inquiry commission is adjourned. thank you all very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> washam ting govern

the doctor able to make their own decisions in consultation with their patients, d doc-patient, and in addition to that, frankly, more competition with the exchanges. this legislation, frankly, is -- is rooted almost entirely on -- maintain the current free market system in health care. there is an insurance market reform, which i think everybody agrees with and is denying preexisting conditions for denying coverage. and there is a modest expansion of medicaid, lower-income people that otherwise can't get health care. but otherwise this is legislation rooted in the current american system. we've got a good system that works and this is designed to make it work a little better, but make it like the senator in wyoming wants, based on quality. he didn't mention this, but i know he agrees, insurance market reform, so those patients that come to him don't have to wait until the year as they have in the past. but i want to make it very clear this is no -- quote -- "government takeover." that's a scare tactic. that's not accurate. let's just maintain the current system. i'd like to yield to t

. >> time for our sunday morning to you and say, joining us this morning is marvin doc cheatham. good morning. >> happy new year. >> same to you. >> i want to talk first about sheila dixon and the outcome of her trial. they had questions about leadership, we know that she was convicted of embezzlement. there was a new hearing about to come up and a possible new trial. what is the concern that you all have? of >>> we are praying for the mr and her family, we hope that justice will be served. we do not take issue with agreeing or disagreeing with the court trial. we simply hope that the city begins to challenge the issues that we have. homeless issues, we have to let the people know that we are still very watchable. but if you have concerns about leadership. -- >> you have concerns about leadership. >> we are comfortable with it. there is a process an agreement on the procedure. we have concerns as to how it might be implemented. we are not afraid to come up with hard questions. someone has to ask them and here it is our responsibility at the naacp. >> you talk about the homeless.

so i went to see doc cooke and some of you may remember him from the pentagon. i need some help, he was the mayor there. [phone ringing] i don't believe this. the last time that happened -- the last time that happened a fellow named colin powell was sitting in front of me. he said give me that phone. [laughter] anyhow, doc cooke said i will help you and within a week i had all schools with partners. he went to the army, navy, the coast guard and air force and they brought in people to help the principal partners. they had soldiers shot in some schools and a great boon to the student body, to the teachers. first lady hillary clinton had six trips to our schools. she brought her husband on two of them. senator kennedy and his staff or readers in our schools. industry chipped in, dynamics permitted their people to come over and become leaders in several of our schools and janet reno attorney general conducted monthly conflict resolution classes to help out. those positives notwithstanding in the spring of 9818 months after starting with pressure from my wife and se

but could you make more medical care available to more people over the next couple of years b those docs stop doing all that research that will cure this disease in 5 or 10 or 20 years. don't fund that? >> dean kamen's big broad world of looking at things, what's your vision of fixing health care? >> if the next generation comes along and one by one start wiping out the diseases that we're all terrified of, besides giving us a healthier life, it will be way cheaper. now, personally, i think that will just meanwhile all expect to be 100 or 150 and there will new problems. but that's why i say this debate is unreasonable. the debate shouldn't be about we've got to spend less and less and less on health care. the debate should be we all want to live longer and healthier and happier and better. and to do that we ought to focus our national attention on curing all these diseases and that requires a focus, serious financial commitment. you know, we want to win a war, when we're worried about our security, money's no object. why aren't we putting the same passion and focus on wiping out disease

currently there is a shortage of these docs. more medical students are going into lurative specialties. med schools such as howard are trying to change that. >> here at howard and other medical schools across the country we've been trying to increase enrollment and the number of students going into primary care careers. >> reporter: doctors hope congress will include financial incentives and bonuseso medical students who go into primary care medicine. in washington, molly hinenburg, fox news. >> a long road ahead on that. >>> many people are still struggling to make ends meet as the recession continues. >> one gas station figures into the end of the worries at least for one person. you're going to like this one. it's all coming up. it's so hard to choose one. you know, during the sign then drive event, you can get a cc, tiguan or fuel efficient jetta for practically just your signature. you can get scheduled maintenance at no cost. there's got to be more to it than that... i'll never doubt you again. >>> another sign of the time

that was the intent of, say a low-doc, no-doc loan. when you looked what happened in the lending industry, those types of loans become almost standardize, in large part because because there was a lot of money to be made by putting people in those loans because it would cost little more to put somebody in that loan so there would be a greater revenue stream and therefore more interest and more ability to sell that off to wall street, and unfortunately, there was a lack of, either appreciation or interest in the problems that were occurring on the ground, not just in the state of illinois but throughout this country with those types of risky loans. in addition, -- >> can you ask you specifically, did the state attorney generals, visit with occ, federal reserve, and visit these issues? >> i think in 2005, you might be aware there was an action brought against, at the time, attorney general spitzer, by the occ, attorney general spitzer at that time, had attempted to initiate fair lending investigation of a number of national banks, and th

i'm going to look into the camera so i sound athor taytive like doc: >> seriously, sounding it and being two different things. >> on the ground all the time. >> and it is on the ground. [ laughter ] >> fascinated about i this. >> you look like john lithgow today. >> you look like prince named today. gandhi. [ laughter ] >> enough already. continue. >> back off. >> leave the jill, george michael. call me back. so i call him back he said listen i'm giving you the job i'm paying you this much don't you dare have your agent negotiate it. >> i said okay. and then i was 23. >> this team has a little pepper in its grits as i like to say. playing like the reggie bush. >> i thinks that do with the fact the saints are paying him as much as he was paid in college and that's helping him a lot. >> we have to go, man. buy more time. >> i want. this is the highest rated show he have you had all week. [ laughter ] >> i don't understand this deal man. this is not an hour and a half on thursday. >> we have to get the show over so i can go. >> you can make money doing this. caoning de pmasible by, espn >>>

doc, look who's in town. ellen! copenhagen? cool, right? vacation. but still seeing patients.hispering ] workaholic. i heard that. she said it. i... [ female announcer ] the new office. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. >> larry: may. >> larry: maria joins us here in los angeles she was in haiti last year. what took you there? >> i went to haiti with my friend, paul hagas. he is an amazing human being, and he has been working in haiti for the last 22 years. we saw the incredible pediatric hospital that he built, a hospital for disabled children, 20 street schools in the slums, orphanages, and free medical clinics. he brings the only free drinking water to the slums. >> larry: was it your first trip there? >> yes. >> larry: were you impressed? >> i have never in my life seen such dire poverty. but in the mist of the poverty, the haitian people have so much joy and resilience, and beautiful, beautiful spirits. >> larry: when you heard about the earthquake, you must have been whacked out? >> it was devastating. i spoke to father that day in a weird coinciden

doc, look who's in town. ellen! copenhagen? cool, right? vacation. but still seeing patients.g ] workaholic. i heard that. she said it. i... [ female announcer ] the new office. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. >> larry: welcome back to "stories from haiti." the need for food, water and medicine created a desperate situation in haiti. there were legitimate fears about safety and security that saw people in difficult and dangerous spots. tonight, karl penhaul witnessed a desperate act that had deadly consequences. we warn you, some of the images in this report are disturbing. karl? >> yeah, indeed, larry. we were driving just beyond the airport this -- this day, and as we drove by, we saw, or we heard, a single shot ring out. that got our attention. we looked across and at that point, we saw two haitian police officers holding two detained young men. and at that point as we spotted them, more shots rang out and we saw those police officers shoot the young detainees at point blank range in the process of stopping the car, we run out to see what is happenin

doc, look who's in town. ellen! copenhagen? cool, right? vacation. but still seeing patients.c. i heard that. she said it. i... [ female announcer ] the new office. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. for my arthritis, i use new capzasin quick relief gel. (announcer) starts working on contact and at the nerve level. to block pain for hours. new capzasin, takes the pain out of arthritis. >> larry: lawrence silver, the attorney for samantha geimer and debra tate. we're joined by robin sachs. author of "it happens every day inside the world of a sex crimes d.a." and the famed defense attorney mrk mark geragos. what do you want to have happen here? >> i think as a prosecutor, i want to see that this case get resolved and get resolved once and for all. and at this point, it's not about looking what does this say to other rapists who rape young girls? >> they are better off in the '70s than they are today. >> larry: '70s you could get away with it? >> in the '70s, it was a completely different milieu than it is today. >> the law's different now. the same crime un

doc, look who's in town. ellen! copenhagen? cool, right? vacation. but still seeing patients. oh. [ whispering ] workaholic. i heard that. she said it. i... [ female announcer ] the new office. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. >> larry: by the way, our fund-raising efforts continue on behalf of the people of haiti. we're hoping to auction off the michael jackson opus on our website. go to bid. last time i looked, it was up to $19,000. let's go to port-au-prince. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn's chief medical correspondent, practicing neurosurgeon. a lot of focus from outside haiti. i understand that you reported about a hospital being operated by a pair of haitian twins. what's that all about? >> yeah, you know, i think there's an assumption that most of the aid is coming from outside, but in fact, a lot of the haitian doctors who were there beforehand, they stayed. in fact, they stayed open for business even as the earthquake -- just as soon as the earthquake ended. so this particular practice is run by two brothers. they are twins. both general surgeons. very w

doc, look who's in town. ellen! copenhagen? cool, right? vacation. but still seeing patients.hispering ] workaholic. i heard that. she said it. i... [ female announcer ] the new office. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. >> larry: sheriff alderden held several news conferences as the balloon boy case unfolded back in october. but not everything he said to the media was totally accurate. and then he knew it. we've got two clips. the first october 16th, the day after the incident. the second the 18th, the day the sheriff declared it had all been a hoax. watch. >> we were convinced yesterday after talking to the parents and having investigators on scene during the duration of this event that the parents were being honest with us. >> it's not a criminal offense to perhaps lie to them to get them in here or establish a relationship to get them in here. i personally have to say, i feel very bad, and i think we came up and bumped against the line of misleading the media. and boy, that is something i really take to heart that we don't do. >> larry: sheriff, what h

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doc, look who's in town. ellen! copenhagen? cool, right? vacation. but still seeing patients.oh. [ whispering ] workaholic. i heard that. she said it. i... [ female announcer ] the new office. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. >>> joining us for a few moments is rupert hitzig, lives in los angeles. he's a friend of the heene family working on a project, including a book. he does not think that this was a hoax. why don't you think so? ruppert has had some successful movies on his own, partnered with alan king. but why do you not believe what the authorities have said? >> based on the character that i know, and i know mayumi better than i know richard because mayumi was my editor for four years. she's an excellent editor. while mayumi was editing my films, i was in a place very close to richard and his three boys and it's a extremely strong and unique family unit. and i even asked richard yes wasn't -- he was dreaming, he always dreamed about new projects and new projects, and they were having some financial problems, and i asked richard why he wasn't worki

doc, what i want to talk to you about and susan, too, i got to meet her. it's kind of fun. senator coburn was on your show -- it's been a month or two ago. and he was talking about running all these tests that he knew was unnecessary, but he had to do it for his liability, whatever. now, is that not waste, fraud and abuse? if i would do something like that, i would be in jail. and i know there's other doctors that do this. now, i'm 63. i'm in the va system. they control my copd, my high blood pressure and everything. it doesn't cost me a dime. i could be on medicare but i chose not to do it. i've been with the va since i got out of the service since '71. but why are all these tests being run and i know it cost money. >> host: thank you, dean. in fact testing and how much doctors has been a regular theme. here's one headline article, testing, testing, testing and how doctors are calling for a lot of tests they sometimes they say are gold plated more than they need? >> guest: your caller did hit the button which is our malpractice system which is driven in ways -- so let me g

. >> your colleague jamesmer doc, head of the news corporation. >> he died, by the way. >>. dan, you are killing me here. he predicted the stock market crash. meet the guy who is talking about a bailout bubble bursting. and then washington forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for even more home buyers this year. will everyone pay the price? we will be back. >> i'm greg in new york. rush limbaugh is speaking about his condition at a hospital in hawaii. let's listen. >> the first thing i want to do is thank the people at the hotel and resort, the general manager there, thomas pauly and their security star reacted like that to my distress call at 2:30 on wednesday afternoon. the people here at queens hospital could not have been better. i feel very, very fortunate. i have been treated to the best healthcare the world has to offer and that's right here in the united states of america. also i'm overcome with all of the prayers, the cards and the flowers of that come in from people all over the country. it has been a humbling experience. all my life i've wondered what a heart attack

cots, meals, hygiene, blankets, docs. on thursday the president announced immediate investment of $100 million. that is going to mean more life-saving equipment, more food, more water, more medicine, more of everything the people of haiti need including the ability when we get on the 82nd on the ground, more security on the ground. everybody knows how this works. everybody knows how it works. initially everyone is just so focused on staying alive. after that, there is a tendency for fear and panic to set in. there is the tendency for a few bad actors to begin acting bad. we're trying to get all of this done ooze quickly as we can. we are working closely with the regional and international partners such as the united nations and the government of haiti. we're standing up the government of haiti in terms of its ability to communicate with its people. this has been a total collapse, a total collapse of a country as a consequence of an earthquake. and so we're going anywhere that we can get and we're bringing every resource w

. >> reducing the deficit to making it worse because the doc fix would cost some $210 billion. congress has to fix it anyway, so the house passed it but added to the deficit. >> how will that be financed or will it be financed? that is an open question. >> reporter: cuts to doctors and early attempt to cutting medicare spending never took place why critics are skeptical. as the new ri forms kick in, medicare goes into huge financial trouble as babyboomers retire. this may be the worst time to roll the deficit zblool. >> julie: it was a new year's kiss one man in texas will never wipe off. police are stumped for a motive why a woman bit off her boyfriend's lip during a new year's eve kiss. dallas police say 41-year-old woman chomped on her boyfriend's lip tearing it off his face. the man called 911 for help but then he refused to press charges police arrested her charging her with aggravated assault and family violence. the man was treated to a nearby hospital. the couple reportedly has a two-year-old son together. >> gregg: i hope they were able to retrieve it and sew it back o

other piece is that, you know, in the house bill there is no provision for what is being called the doc fix. today we have a reimbursement level that are being projected to be reduced by a substantial level which is going to cost more and more -- cause more and more doctors not to receive medicare and medicaid patients. so this leadership team has promised and made a deal with the docs that they will bring a separate bill, they don't want to bring it in this one because, why? it costs $209 billion and so now instead of $1.06 trillion, you've got nearly a $1.2 trillion bill. now, the other piece is that the medicaid is being transferred to -- part of this cost is going to be medicare that's going to be transferred to states unless you're from nebraska. what is the cost of that? that's $34 billion. now here's the real sleeper here that i hope that the american people who are watching c-span and the -- because the lights are on here and the lights are on this chart and guess what? this little bill only -- it collects taxes that the gentleman was talking about for 10 years, but it only has

papa doc and so-called baby doc. we supported the ruling of classes. really wealthy in haiti against the poor. and then when aristide came in, a truly democratically elected leader, he was overthrown. and he was overthrown with cia involvement. and cia is the american governmental involvement. and so that cycle of continuing to oppress really the poor people of haiti goes on and on and on. and i don't really understand why so-called experts don't address that really directly. >> host: bill, going forward in haiti, what do you think the u.s. role should be? >> caller: well, i don't know. i mean, it's really such a mess. you know, you're thrg you're throwing an earthquake at that country. after decades and decades of abuse and the problem is -- you know, it's so sad to say it, but it has been american abuse. it's a client state. the sweat shops were open under the clinton administration. i mean, there's no administration that has clean hands on this. >> host: okay, bill, peter deshazo. >> guest: i agree with your statement that the governments of haiti h

they didn't call it a liar's loan but that's a no doc loan. come to us. we'll give you a loan where you don't pay any of the interest or any of the principal. all of these were entreaties to people to come to these companies and redo their mortgages. what happened to these mortgages when they were put together? they wrapped them into a security, a mortgage security, and then the mortgage company -- country-wide, for example -- would sell it. they would sell it to a hedge fund or investment bank and it was rated by a security -- most of those were rated triple-a. what happened was those who placed the mortgages no longer had the risk because they sold the risk to others. they sold to a hedge fund and investment bank. all the brokers were making money. the people who were putting out the mortgages at the bottom, they were making $5,000, $10 thousand in brokers fees. the mortgage companies were awash in cash. i mentioned country wide's c.e.o. left with a couple hundred million dollars, now under investigation. the hedge funds, they were making massive amount

hi, doc. >> how you doing. >> jamie: good. alabama i'll get to in a second.president's proclamation we need to prevent potentially a third wave of h1n1. is that done or could that happen? >> i mean, look, i think it's a very good idea. we have about 122 vials, 132 million vials of the h1n1 vaccine available. now all the restrictions have been lifted and the government order about 250 million vials so we have plenty of vaccines, as a matter of fact, if you look at other countries like germany. germany just returned 50% of their vials back to the pharmaceutical companies and france canceled 50% of their orders. so, it seems that most countries now days have plenty of vaccinations, so, this is a prime time to get this h1n1 because even though the statistics are showing that the outbreaks have gone away and there's only one state, as you mentioned, alabama that has some cases being reported, we still don't know. this can come back again in another month or two, you know, the kids are still in school. we're just coming through a very cold season now where everybod

currently, there's a shortage of these docs, more medical students are going into lucrative specialties, but med schools such as howard are trying to change that. >> here at howard and other medical schools across the country we've been trying to both increase enrollment as well as increase the number of students who are going into primary care careers. >> doctors say they hope congress will include in the health care reform bill financial incentives and bonuses to medical students who go into primary care medicine. in washington, molly henneberg, fox news. >> security at u.s. airports was overhauled after the september 11th attacks, but the attempted terror attack on christmas day is a stark reminder how far we need to go when it comes to airport security. with all of the measures currently in place, how did abdul mutallab aboard a u.s. bound aircraft? joining us now to talk about this is counterterrorism expert charles allen. mr. allen, thank you so much for coming in today. >> thank you very much. >> shannon: 47 years experience in the cia for you. several years with the department o

let's say there were 10,000 taliban, and doc would mean you would need 100,000 -- and that would mean you need 100,000 troops. there was a week to cbs last year or our commander now, general mcchrystal, in his recommendations to the president actually said we are going to need 500,000 troops. i have been waiting a long time to hear that number because i know what it means and how many bad guys are out there. that would mean we are afraid we are looking at possibly force of 50,000 or so. in the last year or two, we have seen some reports coming through the news media, according york and other intelligence organizations saying 10,000, 15,000. that is too big for the afghan army to handle. even if they can fight. what i see about -- what i see obama doing, which is what j.f.k. was trying to do, is to train the vietnamese to fight the war. the surge appears to me to be the beginning of a withdrawal, which you know has been stated to be beginning about 18 months after to give karzai and his regime enough time to stand up and fight for itself. we will see. host: we have our numbers on the s

. >> reporter: everyone doubted the doc when he promised to be a regular, after all the clinic needss some of the patients, but two things wouldn't imagine all of those years ago how important he would become to all of these people. >> i like dr. nichols. >> yes horse and how important they have become to him. in a place too tight knit for strangers and too small for crime, they have a far different problem. for bonnie lan den it's her knees. many others it's heart disease or diabetes, medical problems that go unchecked or untreated. >> okay, good enough. >> reporter: today, bonnie waits for dr. nichols. >> good to see you. >> reporter: bonnie suffered 15 years from arthritis in her knees until she got medicare, treatment was too expensive. [ laughter ] >> reporter: but sometimes wealth is not tuned in a wallet. >> i can really walk. >> don't you be falling down, now. >> reporter: it thrives in the spirit and that has always been payment enough for dr. nichols. >> you're willing. >> reporter: despite the title david nichols is no longer a doctor on the island, he is a father and an a

let's say there were 10,000 taliban, and doc would mean you would need 100,000 -- and that would meanou need 100,000 troops. there was a week to cbs last year or our commander now, general mcchrystal, in his recommendations to the president actually said we are going to need 500,000 troops. i have been waiting a long time to hear that number because i know what it means and how many bad guys are out there. that would mean we are afraid we are looking at possibly force of 50,000 or so. in the last year or two, we have seen some reports coming through the news media, according york and other intelligence organizations saying 10,000, 15,000. that is too big for the afghan army to handle. even if they can fight. what i see about -- what i see obama doing, which is what j.f.k. was trying to do, is to train the vietnamese to fight the war. the surge appears to me to be the beginning of a withdrawal, which you know has been stated to be beginning about 18 months after to give karzai and his regime enough time to stand up and fight for itself. we will see. host: we have our numbers on the scr

preventing suicide is far too important and too enormous of a challenge to be left to the docs.all in this together. we are are our brother's keeper. we are our sister's keeper. we know that psychological, spiritual and moral injuries are on par with physical injuries. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mull geneses that quite frequently. we are blessed with the strength of visionary leadership at all levels and in both departments. we know that these invisible wounds of war, whether depression, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, concussion, traumatic brain injury -- we know that these invisible wounds are real. we know that you are not alone. i'm not alone. we are all in this together. we know that treatment works. treatment based on an integrated team health model of care that covers the entire continuum from exposure or distress all the way through, from the battlefield to the home front to the bedside, to the kitchen table. and we also know not only does treatment work but the earlier we can intervene the better. we know that reaching out is an act of coura

you follow this course of history and you go through the papa doc here and you come to aristide.three times popularly are elected. the u.s. was instrumental in getting rid of him. we have to ask ourselves, which side of haiti's history are we? it is time to rebuild the institutions there because every country needs a place in the global economy and haiti is no exception to time to integrate haiti and make long-term investments to build up its institutions and make it a democratic status which it never really has had. host: how in god's time do people think a bankrupt nation can keep spending money willy- nilly in return -- in regard to age to 80? in "the weekly standard" president obama's response has been short-minded and swift. he saw the situation as one of those moments that calls for american leadership and he has acted accordingly. show on the republican line, from bordeaux, alabama, go ahead. caller: i think the people there deserve help. we will have to go in there and rebuild it. if the people can't do it, they don't have much. the federal government here and the state g

last week and over the weekend, it's become the case that we're doing more of the collecting of the docs, but the connecting is certainly still incomplete. and in "invasion" i went into great detail about how we already had many of these existing databases in place, but there was so much bureaucratic in-fighting and territorialism. the fbi doesn't want to share with the cia, neither of those agencies share adequately with immigration authorities, and even if you look just domestically, there are so many forces on the left that are working to undermine the kind of cooperation that we need. there's now a new push for an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens who are already here, and as part of that package which is being pushed primarily by louis gutierrez who's a democrat from illinois, one of the things that they would like to do is torpedo what i think is one of the most useful federal, state, and local cooperative programs in this country. it's called 214g, i think it is -- 287-g. and it's a deportation program. they take criminal illegal aliens who are already in jail and instead of

the emphasis on primary care doc errors, so that they have to get a.there and you need to go to this specialist. electronic records, so that one physician to the next knows what the other has done and therefore you don't have to repeat all of these tasks that we find in the medicare system right now, where the medicare recipient goes to this specialist, this specialist, this specialist. there are not going what the other specialists are doing and they are duplicating tests. that's something you can't score, isn't that right? >> well, we tried. so it is estimating the effects of those kind of changes on the budget is very difficult and certainly their other analysts that think we have produced budgetary effects that are too pessimistic another analysts say we are too optimistic. either group could be right. uncertainty is great, but we do think we balance the risks and the projections of the provided. >> well, you certainly agree that health care is a big part of our federal spending and it's going to affect that huge debt. >> yes. a >> in the future. so maybe there are things like on

imagine their frustration when they know they get everything from docs to nurses to all kinds of material that can get in and they can only get so much out because the throughput is so difficult. so like i just want to thank the firefighters as well as the rescue workers who continue to save lives even as we speak now. and i think the american people understand just now immense this challenge is. think about it, folks, we all saw katrina. we saw rita, we saw what happened. and many more than a thousand that died and many, many displaced. if the estimates are correct coming from the community on the ground and we're not there, the red cross, we're talking 50,000 to maybe 100,000 dead. this is of a magnitude that is almost unimaginable. i'll end where i began. we are committed as a government. we are committed as a nation, not just today and tomorrow and next week and next month. we are committed to see to it that the people of haiti have a fighting chance to get back on their feet and are able to look their kids in the eye and those that survived and say we got a future. we got a future be

which again, doc college could have been facilitated by existing plans on the ground.hich again, our nonexistent. [inaudible] >> i don't think probably the rest of our or your constituents are going to support the. so i don't think we have any option but to try to rebuild. a haitian state structure, one that is more resilient, more capable, then what we have today or had a year ago. and therefore, i do believe that state building is the coordination of the post relief phase. >> thank you, senator. you quoted the miami herald today, but in the "washington post" today, there's something i think of equal note. it says, haiti government gets minimal aid, less than one thing on each u.s. dollar is sent to leadership. and that's almost certain to. none of this money that is pouring into go to the government. and i just want to just a few the net, whether that would be an effective way or not, i don't know. it's not my area of expertise. but just a few examples from the last two weeks in haiti. before the hurricane, looking at the budget of money going to, for example, the u.

doc, what i want to talk to about, and susan, too -- senator coburn was on your show about a month oro ago, and he was talking about running all of these tests that he knew was unnecessary, but he had to do it for his liability, whatever. now, is that not waste, fraud, and abuse? if i would do something like that, i would be in jail. i know of doctors that do this. i am 63, i am in the va system. they control my blood pressure and everything. it is not cost me a dime. i could be on medicare, but i chose not to do it. i've been with the va since i got out of the service in 1971. but why are all of these tests being run? and i know it costs money. host: thank you. in fact, testing has been a regular theme of your story here is 1 "new yorker" article with the headline, "testing, testing." guest: your caller hit the button on one of the issues driving the process, the malpractice system, which is driven in ways -- let me give you an example -- headaches. one community tried to look at how many ct scans and cedar rapids, iowa, they were doing for people. they did 50,000 cds dance for a pop

what was there might be putting a ferry boat across the peers of the other guy's ferry boat could not doc tearing up or burning down the other guy's ferry station might be okay, these crazy races. this is outside the purview of the book but the insane race between henry clay and the other steamship down the hudson which lasts all day. the amazingly wild race. they are basically throwing people off at their stops and they are racing each other. at the end of this henry clay's boiler explosion kills like 150 people right outside of younkers. this is basic commuter transportation at the time. like rival subway trains chasing each other. >> not only that but it was a spectator sport. it really matter to people that they were on the fastest boat. >> it really mattered, they were cheering on the ones that were not panicked and hanging on for dear life. >> the ones who insisted on being towed in a barge behind the boat to be close to the boiler when it exploded. >> in your book, that was, all that was sort of in a constantly reworked and you no sense of honor. that was okay but then all these pe

number four, the doc fix. a quarter of a trillion dollars of that were would never be paid back, an immediate loss to the taxpayer. number five, off-budget highway funding. and i could go on and on. the list just doesn't end. the projects being funded out of this now new slush fund just don't seem to have an ending point. now, some of these projects might be quite meritorious. you might look at them and say, gosh, in the normal budgetary process, i would want to be a part of voting for those projects. i might support some of them in the normal budgeting process, but not through some no accountability slush fund. you see, madam president, tarp has spiraled out of control and it needs to end today, immediately. tarp was never intended, never intended to finance a wide array of spending programs where the taxpayer literally was going to be the loser. we must find a way to pay for government spending, not try to disguise it in tarp. i am asking my colleagues to pass the thune amendment and end the no accountabilit

doc, what i want to talk to about, and susan, too -- senator coburn was on your show about a month oro ago, and he was talking about running all of these tests that he knew was unnecessary, but he had to do it for his liability, whatever. now, is that not waste, fraud, and abuse? if i would do something like that, i would be in jail. i know of doctors that do this. i am 63, i am in the va system. they control my blood pressure and everything. it is not cost me a dime. i could be on medicare, but i chose not to do it. i've been with the va since i got out of the service in 1971. but why are all of these tests being run? and i know it costs money. host: thank you. in fact, testing has been a regular theme of your sthe is 1 "new yorker" article with the headline, "testing, testing." guest: your caller hit the button on one of the issues driving the process, the malpractice system, which is driven in ways -- let me give you an example -- headaches. one community tried to look at how many ct scans and cedar rapids, iowa, they were doing for people. they did 50,000 cds dance for a populatio

but somebody has to examine this, and as i said, we have not treated the docs, the medical personnel,ike the combatants in terms of the kind of programs and processes to support them that the combatants have. >> they keep it because i know there are some practices of embedding positions with national guard, for example, as part of tricare. that sounds great, but there may be some downsides that if i could just -- it into another personnel issue, because i think it's been addressed about the appropriate judgment and standards of officer ship. as you spoke about, and we know, and even not necessary in the military, but in medical school generally, that it is difficult to perhaps not inhibit a person's career in some way, and that that has -- its downsized in terms of the processes personnel practices we talked about that you have to go through. is part of what you're looking at also to say how many times have we intervened in careers to suggest that people are in the wrong place? is that something that, as you look at this, you have identified a guess, in fact, we see that this is actua

doc, what i want to talk to about, and susan, too -- senator coburn was on your show about a month or two ago, and he was talking about running all of these tests that he knew was unnecessary, but he had to do it for his liability, whatever. now, is that not waste, fraud, and abuse? if i would do something like that, i would be in jail. i know of doctors that do this. i am 63, i am in the va system. they control my blood pressure and everything. it is not cost me a dime. i could be on medicare, but i chose not to do it. i've been with the va since i got out of the service in 1971. but why are all of these tests being run? and i know it costs money. host: thank you. in fact, testing has been a regular theme of your story here is 1 "new yorker" article with the headline, "testing, testing." guest: your caller hit the button on one of the issues driving the process, the malpractice system, which is driven in ways -- let me give you an example -- headaches. one community tried to look at how many ct scans and cedar rapids, iowa, they were doing for people. they did 50,000 cds dance for a

point is that by september there were two the potential departments or agencies that might produce a doc. >> i think there was a big in the foreigns office where it should be their product. the prime minister was clear and right about it as well. it was very -- john used the word ownership. if we said that was the main document -- he wanted to be 100% in charge of the prop seases. that's something i think it's fair to say there were people in the foreign office who wanted to have similar ownership. we had to make it very, very clear that that was not going to happen. >> in one of your answers, you said you got the communications better than others. can you expend on that? >> that wasn't the criticism in front of us. what i meant by that is the -- when i talked earlier about rather silo driven department by department communications really as we have to go to the back. you have the ministers, you have the policy officials and they do all of the really important stuff. and then bring in the communications guy at the end. they will sort of press release. that's kind of it. that was the sort

doc, thank you for your eloquent words. mr. for then berry and mr. cao, jean schmidt. i would like to welcome, the ch o here. is brother, metropolitan and clergy. they are most welcomed. thank them for their incredible stance in favor of the sanctity and the sacredness of all human life. from womb to tomb that we all need to act as our brothers and sisters' keepers. matthew 25 when the lord said what do you do to the least of my brethren you do likewise to me, his beat at this tude lives that as -- beattitude as does his church. they do it in a wonderful way. i thank them for their example. it is truly inspiring. mr. speaker, 38 years, and i have been in the pro-life movement for 38 years, the greatest human rights struggle on earth, the right to life movement. what i still don't get is this. how can so many seemingly smart, sane, compassionate, and accomplished people, especially in politics, support, promote, and if president obama has his way in the pending health care legislation, lavishly fund with public dollars the violent death of unborn children and the woundi

point is that by september there were two the potential departments or agencies that might produce a doci think there was a big in the foreigns office where it should be their product. the prime minister was clear and right about it as well. it was very -- john used the word ownership. if we said that was the main document -- he wanted to be 100% in charge of the prop seases. that's something i think it's fair to say there were people in the foreign office who wanted to have similar ownership. we had to make it very, very clear that that was not going to happen. >> in one of your answers, you said you got the communications better than others. can you expend on that? >> that wasn't the criticism in front of us. what i meant by that is the -- when i talked earlier about rather silo driven department by department communications really as we have to go to the back. you have the ministers, you have the policy officials and they do all of the really important stuff. and then bring in the communications guy at the end. they will sort of press release. that's kind of it. that was the sort of b

they go down with internal medicine docs go down to the cardiologist and say look, what's going on here rates are the highest in the country, why is that let's take a look utterback kurtz. let's try to get costs down. the works internally and that's the way i'd like to see the direction of health care reform. more toward these accountable positions. >> john, one question that tom answered in his comments. do you see anything in the current bills in the house and the senate that are going to do much to deal with the problems you just outlined? >> i agree with tom here. i think they're trendy set of frameworks for these kinds of organizations. and the language is actually in the legislature, but in some cases they are pilots which i think are necessary because we really don't know how to roll this out across the whole country. the greatest disaster would be to do things too quickly and to have them not work in them for people to reject the whole idea. >> so in other words, it's not much but it's a good first step and maybe incremental small step. >> is a good first step. the way i see thi