dr. david shiner stays doesn't go far enough. dr. shiner among my guests here tonight. >>> first, the rising uproar over the possibility of a broken campaign promise and middle-class tax hike. the white house today trying to play down that controversy over remarks by two of the leading administration economic officials who refused to rule out such a tax increase. senior white house economic adviser, lawrence summers, and treasury secretary, timothy geithner, both declaring that it would be wrong to pass judgment on any tax increase now. today, white house press secretary robert gibbs says summers and geithner were speaking hypothetically. dan lothian reports from the white house. >> reporter: the president's two top money men may have a good grip on all the numbers, but their words may have gone offscript. >> i think they allowed themselves to get into a little bit of a hypothetical back and forth. >> reporter: that's the clarification of comes made by treasury secretary timothy geithner and economic adviser, larry summers, on the sun

dr. david shiner of chicago.a member of physicians for a national health program which supports a single payer national health insurance program. he was barack obama's personal physician in chicago for more than two decades. also joining us, dr. dean onnish, the founder and president of preventive medicine research institute. he's the editor at "huffington post." and he, himself, is an m.d., a flight surgeon in the u.s. air force, later an obgyn in civilian practice. gentlemen, thanks to all of you for coming in. let me play for you what president obama said today about a so-called singer-payer system. >> i'm not promoting a single payer plan. i am promoting a plan that will assure that every single person is able to get health insurance at an affordable price and that if they have health insurance, they are getting a good deal from the insurance companies. that's what i'm fighting for. >> dr. shiner, you're disappointed in your old friend, your patient president obama, you want a single payer system along the li

dr. david shiner. dr. scheiner welcome. delighted to have here tonight. i think he may be one of those exceptions. you believe we ought to have a single-payer system, is that correct question mark. >> what i want for patience as i want them to have freedom of choice. i want patients to have freedom of choice and under a single-payer they have had. under private insurance or the last 40 years i've seen them interfere in caring for patients. the. in 40 years medicare has never, once, interfered with the kind of care that i try to administer. almost every day to private insurance companies do something to interrupt the kind of care that i would want to deliver. i don't know why they should be trusted. the other thing is the cost of administering private healthcare is about $400 billion a year. in our office we have two full-time people just to handle private insurance. if you had universal medicare, we would eliminate bad. the $400 billion could cover the 50 million who are uninsured. i think it is a moral outrage that we have 50 million people without healt

dr. david shiner. dr. scheiner welcome. delighted to have here tonight.i think he may be one of those exceptions. you believe we ought to have a single-payer system, is that correct question mark. >> what i want for patience as i want them to have freedom of choice. i want patients to have freedom of choice and under a single-payer they have had. under private insurance or the last 40 years i've seen them interfere in caring for patients. the. in 40 years medicare has never, once, interfered with the kind of care that i try to administer. almost every day to private insurance companies do something to interrupt the kind of care that i would want to deliver. i don't know why they should be trusted. the other thing is the cost of administering private healthcare is about $400 billion a year. in our office we have two full-time people just to handle private insurance. if you had universal medicare, we would eliminate bad. the $400 billion could cover the 50 million who are uninsured. i think it is a moral outrage that we have 50 million people without health

dr. shiner welcome and delighted to have you here overnight. i think you may be one of those exceptions. you believe we ought to have a single payer system; is that correct. i want patients to have freedom of choice. under the last 40 years, i have seen them interfering carrying for patients. in 40 years medicare has never interferred with the care i administer. almost every day private insurance companies do something to the kind of care i would deliver. i don't know why they should be trusted . the cost of the administered private health care is 400 billion. we have two full-time people to handle private insurance. if you had universal medicare you would eliminate and 400 billion to cover the people who are uninsured. we have 50 million people without health insurance and others who are underinsured. i don't understand why the people are not screaming to see that they get care? it is horrible. >> doctor, the number 50 million uninsured. if you extrapolate that 12 million illegals and there is 10 million people who could have insurance and cho

dr. david shiner. dr. ur faceoff debate, we examine the president's sinking poll ratings. two leading pollsters, one republican, one democrat, join me. we hope you will as well. all that and more news coming up at the top of the hour. suzanne, back to you. >> great to see you, lou. >>> jack cafferty joining us again. >> do women make better bosses? darryl in houston writes, the answer is no women are the best co-work woulders, great teamliers, just great to work with, but this all changes when they are the boss. women have one major flaw in their character, emotions. as a boss, she will either be your best friend or your worst nightmare. and this is just monday and tuesday. it depends on how all the other relationships are going in her life. melissa writes, speaking as a woman i say no they don't. women by nature are cattier, even crueller in some ways than men. most women think they have something to prove so they are more aggressive because of it. cathy says very possibly they do but a blanket statement i