. >>> hospital stock hma is down more than 4.5% today. and it is because of this. >> reporter: with american health care costs so out of control, we were stunned to hear from former doctors and m.d. ors at one of the nation's largest hospital chains that they'd been pressured to admit patients regardless of medical need to increase revenues. >> this is coming from a non-physician. somebody who never went to medical school, never seen or treated a patient is telling a physician how they should be taking care after patient and making decisions related to a patient. my blood pressure is going up just saying this. >> cheryl covers hma for crt capital. you put a sell call on the stock after last night's "60 minutes" report. a pretty powerful report indeed. why should we be worried? >> two reasons. allegations made by "60 minutes" last night are serious. whether or not they ultimately are proven to be true the path between here and there is dangerous, fraught with risk that could affect volumes, revenues, ebita and whether or not the company ch

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so hma, big loser. david: who do you believe, the company or "60 minutes?"k you, lauren, good to see you. >> now we have a counter offer from the gop. david: so what is being proposed now? fox business' rich edson joining us. by the way, i'm holding in my hand the counteroffer, and, again, they say we're clear on specifics, but it's hard to find the specifics in this stuff whether it's the gop plan or the president's plan. >> reporter: right, david. broad numbers here from the republicans. they've just countered the white house with a plan aides say saved $2.2 trillion over the next decade and on top of the $1 trillion in cuts they agreed to last summer. this offer includes $800 billion in revenue increases through a tax overhaul. republicans are still opposed to any tax rate increases. $900 billion in cuts to mandatory spending programs. those programs include medicare, medicaid and social security. and $300 billion in cuts to other government spending. in the letter to the president, republicans write: this is by no means an adequate long-term solution as

. >>> did you see the 60 minutes investigation on chain hma?uest has put the stock at a sell. >>> 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern on "street signs." >>> ubs is loeldi inholding its annual media conference in new york today. david faber has the ceo from charter communications. his first interview from taking the top spot. >> we are here at the ubs media conference. with a guest in the media industry whom i have never interviewed on camera. tom rutledge, ceo of charter communications. 5 million subscribers spread across the country but certainly st. louis still the hub. nice to have you. >> thank you, david. glad to be here. >> you've been ceo of this company for most of this year, let's call it. ten months or so. it's different than cablevision which i ran as coo, the cable part of it, for many years. much more spread out. much lower average revenue per user. how confident are you that you can tackle something that even geographically is very different than what you did at cablevision, not to mention get people to spend more for their broadband and fo

. >> kroft: meyer says hma's corporate attorneys heavily edited his reports and instructed him to destroyginal version of his memos, but he never did. >> meyer: i felt it was evidence. these people are changing my write-up of what i found, softening it up, excising out things, labeling it as attorney/client privilege when it wasn't. and i felt certain they're trying to cover this up. >> kroft: he was eventually fired and is now suing h.m.a. for wrongful termination. what are we supposed to make of... of these allegations that have been raised by... by paul meyer? he says this company's guilty of medicare fraud. >> levine: well, we'll let... we'll let the proper authorities be the judge of that. okay, we feel that we are doing the right thing for our patients. it's not mr. meyer's place to decide guilt or innocence. we investigate anything that's reported. and if we find a problem, we... we fix it. >> kroft: are you saying that paul meyer doesn't recognize medicare fraud when he sees it? >> levine: i think his assertions were not accurate. i think he provided incomplete information in the

also, let's talk hma. shares are down big time. you know the reason why.doctors were pressure to admit more patients. they call that report on "60 minutes" inaccurate. they expect more investigations going forward. big losers today. back to you. dennis: thank you. tracy: we are falling a little bit more. with taxes going up, tax-free muni bonds are all the rage. we will have tips on how to find some good ones next. dennis: first, some of today's winners and losers. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' rst day of work. and his new boss told him twongs -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it y, but he'll wk his way up from busser to wter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and me from the great northwest. hel start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, nde'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. dennis: over 100 companies are paying special dividend. this is before the tax rate on dividends could