at the ending of the initial contract term in 2009, opm awarded a second contract to john hancock. as part of the newhan dock, john hancock add increased benefit options, new benefit periods, higher daily benefit amounts, and increased payment limits for informal care provided by family members. the long-term program provides coverage for nursing room stays, assisted living facilities, hospice stays, home care, and other services. in addition to federal civilian and uniformed service employers, other qualified family members who are eligible to apply for the coverage includes spouses, same-sex domestic partner, surviving spouses, members of the uniformed services, parents, and adult children. although enrollees can customize the benefit, the vast majority, over 99%, opt for one of four prepackaged options. the prepackaged plans offer variations in the daily benefit amount, the benefit period, the maximum lifetime benefit amount, waiting periods, and inflation protection options. the package includes comprehensive care coordination, portability of coverage, international benefits wi

one long term care insurer, john hancock. what are you doing to think about attracting more carriers and then a little bit of time left i might ask the doctor how we further use market forces in, market psychology to get us, aging babyboomers to participate. >> yeah, i think you have identified one of the challenges we see for the federal long term care program going forward. is that, in recent years, the number of insurers who are actively participating in this market has gone down. i am not so concerned that we have one provider of a long term care program, right now, i think that, for the way we have done it that is wait we do life insurance. not like the health insurance where people are changing yearly. what i am more concerned about is when we reupped our contract. we only had one active bidder to provide that service. so -- we are looking very carefully to -- to, at the moment. we have a provider. doing a good job. but a concerned long-term for this program is that there are enough active participants, insurers out the

one long term care insurer, john hancock. what are you doing to think about attracting more carriers and then a little bit of time left i might ask the doctor how

>> no, i would talk about john hancock writing in big letters saying, take that. >> i don't even agreeh what i said. >> are you just trying to get a rise out of me. >> that's it. >> global depression is coming coming in 2030. the one time it comes true, that's all you need. by the way, we should point out graham turner his research was done in 2008. >> what are you trying to say? >> there is nothing new about this story except it is all over the internet. >> you know, when you are dealing with the end of the world. >> it is fine. >> four years is a drop in the bucket. >> it is meaning less. >> or are you saying we couldn't find any good stories today? >> we coobt although that is true. >> it is easter. all of the good reporters have hangovers. >> that's true. from easter? >> from all of the eggnog that you people drink. >> joe, you brought up that they are to end this year. it is important to note that the myan calendar is going to end, but i believe the fourth cycle will end. >> i think it brings us back to 2012. you might be referring to 2012 in your reference. >> by the way, has any

for example, when you have buildings like general motors or the john hancock building or 399 park, people want to go to those buildings and if the rents are down or stabilized, they feel they can afford it instead of the rents that used to be the case. the occupancy stays up even if the rent stabilized or go down a little bit. >> what are are you seeing in terms of represent and even in the best buildings and the best parts of town. have we seen the worst behinds and you where are we relative to past years? >> the worst is behind us. we are not in an up tick. the worst is behind us. if we can measure it by standard, the most important for us, the occupancy that enables us to hold our rents up, they are doing very, very well. this is not true of all space. we have eight buildings in eight locations and the occupancy holes up. we are in a weak phase of the microeconomy. we are being very careful and cautious. it gives us buying opportunities to buy buildings where we have both the capital and the ability to manage those buildings well and improve the occupancies. it is not a bullish period

the brits were on a mission to arrest john hancock and samuel adams.g and hancock and adams had already left for philly. 700 red coats showed up. and just 77 armed minutemen stood in their way. we still don't know who fired first. but in no time the air was thick with gun smoke. the patriots ambushed the brits as they marched from concord to boston and killed or wounded some 300 enemy soldiers. the war would go on for years. we know who won. but someone fired the shot heard around the world 237

the brits were on a mission to arrest john hancock and samuel adams.g and hancock and adams had already left for philly. 700 red coats showed up. and just 77 armed minutemen stood in their way. we still don't know who fired first. but in no time the air was thick with gun smoke. the patriots ambushed the brits as they marched from concord to boston and killed or wounded some 300 enemy soldiers. the war would go on for years. we know who won. but someone fired the shot heard around the world 237 years ago today. and now you know the news for this thursday, april the 19th, 2012. i'm shepard smith. for the journalists of fox news, thanks for trusting us for your news and information. opinion and niagara falls begins now with mr. bill. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> i also agree with our first republican president, a guy

fellow of the texas state historical association, and was a historical adviser for the 2004 john lee hancock film "the alamo." the chronicles of higher education examined his work on that film in a feature article. he lives in abilene with his wife debra and children walker and savannah. his presentation today is what was houston thinking, understanding houston's bizarre behavior during the texas -- during the san jacinto campaign. please welcome dr. stephen hardin. >> thank you, bobby. when governor perry was kind enough to name me an admiral in the texas navy, i informed my wife, debra, that henceforth i expected her to call me admiral. i won't tell you what she called me. but it wasn't admiral. there we go. when sam houston first booted his horse across the red river on december 2nd, 1832, he had but one object in mind, and that was to west texas from the mexican republic and append it to the united states. notwithstanding pledges of allegiance to mexico, houston remained an american expansionist, a protege of andrew jackson, and a political operative. while many will find this a remarkab

at the end of the contract term in 2009 opm awarded a second contract to john hancock. part of the new contract john hancock added a new benefit option would increased health care imburse meant, hiler daily benefit amounts and increase payment limit terms for care provided by family member. the long-term care program provides coverage for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospice, home care and other services. in addition to federal civilian and uniformed service employers, other qualified family members who are eligible to apply for the coverage includes spouses, same-sex domestic partners, surviving spouses, members of the uniformed services, parents and adult children. although enrollees can customize the benefits the vast majority, over 99%, opt for one of four prepackaged options. their prepackaged plans offer variations in the daily benefit amount, the benefit period on the maximum lifetime benefit amount, waiting period and inflation protection option. the package includes a conference of care coordination, affordability and coverage international benefi

it is a joint venture of john hancock and metropolitan life. by february 2003, 187,000 individuals were enrolled. by the end of the initial seven year contract term, in rome and had increased to 224,000 enrollees. as part of the new contract, john hancock added increase home reimbursement, hired daily -- -- and increased benefits for family members. in addition, carol civilian and uniformed service employees and other qualified -- federal civilian and uniformed service employees and other qualified employees include family members. there are four prepackaged options. the offer variations in the daily benefit amount, the benefit period, waiting period and inflation protection options. the package includes comprehensive care coordination, portability of coverage, no exclusions, and guaranteed readability. enrollees can change their coverage options and there are a variety of premium payment options. the new contract offered new covered options that were not previously available. an individual can enroll in the long-term care program at any time.

long-term care, john hancock, what are you doing to think about attracting more carriers and a little bit of time left. i might ask dr. holtz-eakin how we use market forces and market psychology to get us aging baby boomers to participate. >> you have identified one of the challenges we see for the federal long-term care program going forward. in recent years the number of insurers who are actively participating in this market have gone down. i am not so concerned that we have one provider of long-term care program right now. i think the way we have done it is the way we do life insurance and it is not like health insurance where people are changing yearly. what i am more concerned about is we only had one active bidder to provide that service. so we are looking very carefully. at the moment we have a provider to is doing a good job but a concern long term for this program is there are enough active participants trying to actually provide that service. the point was made earlier today that the market stayed relatively static over a number of years and is not growing rapidly. we are ve

you cannot get that kind of deal with john hancock. i tell you what. i listened to you and the taxes collected relative to gdp right now are at an all-time low at just 14%. why are you wanting more and more money for the rich? you are just a spoiled kid. host: are you a republican? caller: yes, ma'am. i am one of those rockefeller republicans. we always thought it was great. the corporations paid 28% of taxes collected. now they are paying 9%. host: let's stick to the policy debate. guest: only human beings pay taxes. the taxes on corporations are paid by their shareholders, customers, and employees. they come out the profit which seems to be what the left -- those are the shareholders. this idea that you could get blood from iraq is to tax corporations not coming from human beings is a false one. as i said, revenues are down a little bit right now but if you look at the projections they are going to come back up to historical norms. the system will simply not bear that revenue unless you want a new broad based tax base. they can move their money out o

it's on the john hancock sign! >> oh, it's over. i'm sorry. no, it's actually not.oyed both of our careers. >> elizabeth warren, i'm very excited to have you on the show. you need to come back. >> and i'm going to be asking scott the same thing when he comes in. but explain to americans who are cynical right now what a great honor it is to go out and not just to be elected but to campaign and to be able to talk to people. because people always say, oh, it must be so awful to campaign. and there are a lot of hateful people online and a lot of hateful people on twitter, a lot of hateful people on facebook. but when you knock on doors and you actually get to shake somebody's hand, be they republican, independent, or democrat, i mean, it's just the -- most are lovely. >> yeah. >> and are glad that you're there to talk to them. >> you know, and the campaigning is sharing with them a fundamental optimism about the democratic process. when you're talking about office, you're talking about running for office, you really -- it's because you believe you can make things better

you can't get that kind of do with john hancock. i tell you what, buddy, i listen to, and the taxes collected relative to gdp right now are at all times low at just 14%. the top fifth own 92% of the financial world. why are you thinking for more and more money for the rich? you're living in a dream world. you wouldn't know what work was if you had to. >> host: hold on. you are slinging arrows. are you a republican? transit yes, ma'am. i'm one of those rockefeller republicans and we always thought it was great. when eisenhower was in there. we've had corporations pay 26% of the taxes collected. now they pay 9%. how much lower does he want to see them go? >> host: let's stick to the policy debate and not name-calling. >> guest: the taxes that are legally on corporation are paid by the shoulders, their customers and their employees because they don't come out of employees during wages and customers a high price if they come out of profits which means, those are human beings, the shareholders. so this idea that you can get blood from a