that his help patients do is a little bit better and el paso then it is then mckellan. why? according to the article, it is because the of, what is this sense in el paso regarding health care in what is it in mckellan regarding health care? it may be dangerous for me to say so but according to the author his conclusion is in el paso it is because the care is more patient-centered, is coordinated care. it is less on making a buck where is and mckellan it is less coordinated care, more special the hospitals and a little bit more providers wanting to make a buck. the main point is this common medicine is practiced of differently oliver the country, geographic disparities. some states in northern high plains states, it is less spending per person. the outcome is direct again some of the sun belt states, much more spending outcome is worse. just because it is based on volume in quantity and not based on quality. this legislation stars to put in place ways to move toward reversing-- reimbursing based on quality, not volume and that paradoxically is going to result in lower co

the article -- it is because of how medicine is practiced, what's the ethic, what's the sense in el paso regarding health care and what st's in m mca-- and what is it in mcallen regarding health care. according to the author, his conclusion is that, well, in el pass so, it's because -- in el paso, the care is more patient-centered, it is coordinated care. it is less on making a buck. whereas in mcallen, it is less coordinated care, more specialties hospitals, a little bit more providers than trying to make a buck. the medicine is practiced so differently all over the country, geographic disparities. some states in the northern high plains states, less spending per person. outcome is terrific. some of the sunbelt states, don't want to step on the toes of my colleagues, more spending the outcome is worse. just because it is based on volume and quantity, not based on. this legislation starts to put in place twice move toward reimbursing based on quality. not volume. and that paradoxically is going to result in lower costs and higher quality. lower costs but higher quality. virtually all fol

in el paso, the health care is about half than it is in cullen. yet the outcomes in el paso are better than the they are in mccullen. why is there twice as much spent in mccullen than el paso and the outcomes are different? i think the basic answer is we have a system which allows the mccullens. the system that allows it is payment in basic quantity and volume as opposed to volume. it depends in the community what the culture is. some communities have cultured coordinated care and so forth. and the current system allows that. if the culture is more to make money, our reimbursement system today allows for that as well. so i think one of the things we're trying to do is get more quality in the system, reimbursement to pay docs as you said and that's going to even out a lot of the geographic disparities that occur in the country over time so that the quality will increase and the costs -- wand the waste will decrease. mr. dodd: one last question i wanted to raise, if i could. our colleague from montana said something yesterday that i think deserves b

. >> simon: a converted baptist from el paso, texas.y's collection of byzantine icons, the largest and oldest collection of icons in the world. then he took us to what the patriarch really wanted us to see-- a little-known letter written by the prophet mohammed, almost 1,400 years ago, signed and sealed with his hand print, offering protection and religious freedom to the christians of the monastery. >> justin: these are precedents from mohammed himself for toleration and peace among people of differing faiths. >> simon: the patriarch then brought us back to the 21st century and turkey, to his own back yard. he took us for a ride on an island off of istanbul in a carriage with a police escort. the patriarch wanted to show us that mohammed's message of tolerance has not been received by the turkish authorities. his prime example-- the halki school of theology, the only greek orthodox seminary in turkey, empty and abandoned. no priests, no prayers. thank you, your all holiness. it's very kind of you. the halki was closed down by turkish a

take us to the front lines of mexico's war against drugs to the city of juarez, just across from el pasotexas. he goes out on patrol with mexican authorities where the death toll is rising there every single day. a full report on the war here along the u.s.-mexico border, larry. >> larry: anderson and michael, two of the best reporters in the business. that's 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. queen latifa is with us. last year the "new york times" quoted you as saying i dponlt have a problem discussing the topic of someone being gay, but i do have a problem discussing my personal life. so in this era of 24/7 media, how do you draw a privacy line being in the public eye. how do you do that? >> you just draw it. you just call it. i mean people can choose to deal with their personal lives however they choose. i can't tell another celebrity how to handle their personal lives. some like to live their life out in the open, they want you to come into their kitchen and watch them cook and they want you to come with them with their kids to the park and i just can't really see myself living my life lik

have been 7,00to 8,000 people lled in drug-related violenc and thcity right across the border from el paso, has the world's hight murder rate right now bthr times more violenthan baghdad, iraq. sohere's a daily toll with th kind of violence, but at the me time, other mexicans are really shoed by this. mexican thers, in particular, hold an alted place in mexico. mother's day dowhere is taken very seriously, anthe the fact that these gs went after this many's mother is really se beyond the pal woodruff: in the broader sense how supportive haseen the public been of therug crackdown that ical initiate >> unfortunaly, many mexicans don't trustheir government. this is a untry where the governnt was there to protect itself and its allies and to enrich itself. many view what t government does, even if rrect, with a healthy dose of skepticismnd cynicism. polls show the majority people sort of supporthe drug wars. they knothe gainings are etty bad and they are not fully hind the u.s. government sglid filly, what difference do you tnk this killing upon this navy commando's fily could have on the drug

we'll go to the front lines to the city of juarez across from el paso, texas.th toll is rising there every single day. a full report on the war here along the u.s./mexico border, larry. >> anderson and michael, two of the best reporters in the business. that's 10:00 eastern and 7:00 pacific. queen latifah is with us. last year "the new york times" quoted you saying i don't discuss the topic of being gay but i have a problem discussing my personal life. how do you draw a privacy line in the public eye? how do you do that? >> you just draw it. i just call it. i mean, people can choose to deal with their personal lives however they choose. i can't tell another celebrity how to handle their personal life. some like to live their life out in the open. they want you to come into their kitchen and watch them cook, and they want you to come with them to their kids at the park. i can't see me living my life like that. i feel like what i do with the public is what we share together, and what i do when i'm off the clock is my business. i just want to keep it for myself an

. >> recently, i went down to the el paso intelligence center. juarez was in a state of crisis. a run has said he is a war with the drug cartels. i mention this to talk about this issue parte. they showed me the physical fans that have been built in el paso which has allowed border patrol to gain more operational control. while the physical plant is nearly completed, progress along the lines of a virtual fans using technology has barely begun. there is a report this as drug trafficking organizations use 300 identified makeshift crossings at low points along the rio grande between el paso and presidio. this according to a study. this on classified map from the dhs and gelles report shows to what and the main drug trafficking locations. this is a source of significant drug trafficking and violence. it is alarming to me that the sbi-net project does not anticipate deploying surveillance technology to this section of the texas/mexico border until after the year 2014, at the earliest. we have completed the physical sense, virtually -- fence. why does this take so long to do? >> we ha

the '60s and '70s, a long time ago, we were sitting at home watching television and the ladies in el pasoxas or making -- were making [unintelligible] they ship them across the river can'and they ship them back acrs server for the same price. that is what has happened here. we used to be able to make a living. but they should all of our jobs overseas. it would be wonderful if they could bring our jobs back. it would be wonderful if the ladies today could make our clothing here to where they fit and you did not have to go to wal-mart to try to buy something. it would make a lot of difference if we could put our people back to work, with the ladies back to work to where they did not have to be on welfare. thank you, i will never call in again. host: why is that? caller: well, i am 88 and i have cancer and i'm not going to make it. host: well, you do not know about that, and we hope to hear from you again. caller: thank you. host: next call is from kentucky, co-head. caller: -- from kentucky, go ahead. caller: i think there's a great possibility in the near future of taking your people's gol

. -- from el paso, texas, democrats line.smaller or make it spent somewhere else. all of this is about is that $700 billion was allocated to t.a.r.p. and the treasury of the sec -- the secretary treasury said at this point that he does not anticipate using all of it. that means the deficit will be reduced. if he uses even less, the deficit will be reduced even more. host: we will put the numbers on the screen about how much the of the deficit has been committed and what we estimate those payments are. as we look at those, let's listen to it, it from buford, n.c., chris on the republican line. caller: you mentioned that you were not very happy with some of the usage of the t.a.r.p. by some of the bigger banks. i was wondering how you felt about them, i guess, using some of those funds to underwrite at some deals to pay back the tv money. -- the t.a.r.p. money. guest: the big concern i have with the money that we put in the large financial institutions is that we shoveled literally hundreds of billions of dollars into those fin

perhaps they can help us understand what's going on in el paso and in mcallen.ealth care in el paso is about half what it is in mcallen, another border town. about half. people are spending -- spending for a person in el paso, texas, is about half of what it is in mcallen, texas. yet the outcome -- that is, how well patients do -- is a little bit better in el paso than it is in mcallen. why? according to the article -- the author of the article -- it is because of how medicine is practiced, what's the ethic, what's the sense in el paso regarding health care and what st's in m mca-- and what is it in mcallen regarding health care. according to the author, his conclusion is that, well, in el pass so, it's because -- in el paso, the care is more patient-centered, it is coordinated care. it is less on making a buck. whereas in mcallen, it is less coordinated care, more specialties hospitals, a little bit more providers than trying to make a buck. the medicine is practiced so differently all over the country, geographic disparities. some states in the northern high p