of medical devices, end quote, the court said that this law preempts state tort claims when a medical device causes harm. this means complete immunity from lawsuits for corporations that endanger consumers with unsafe devices. the upshot is that a negligent corporation cannot be held accountable and victims could not receive fair compensation and thus, consumers are at risk. unfortunately, this had catastrophic consequences for ordinary americans. take the example of avery de growe of mchenry, illinois. she was born with a hereditary heart defect that put her at risk. when she was only 2 years old, her doctor recommended she have a defibrillator implanted in her chest. at age 3, she was playing in her basement when the defibrillator shocked her nine times. when her mother picked her up she felt electric shocks through her daughter's body. avery's parents had the faulty defibrillator replaced but medtronic told them the company would not cover the cost. avery's parents are still struggling to pay off the medical bills. i am told avery is here in the audience today. is avery here today?

the decision to develop a medical device is highly risk dependent. for many, it begins with an entrepreneur or startup company competing to attract venture capital and other investments to bring their products to the next stage. venture capitalists are risk focused. when deciding to invest in a promising medical technology, venture-capital lists take many matters into consideration such as patient benefit, intellectual property, protection and risk of liability and any uncertainty in any of those elements could be a significant deterrent to investing in any kind of promising technology. i am very concerned that without the preemption and the uncertainty of the risk of liability, medical device development and innovation could be stifled, you indicated you feel that way as well. >> i have personal experience with that. i sit on the board of directors, ten small biotechnology companies, some of which are engaged in the development of medical devices. and the decisions made by venture capitalists based upon such issues as potential liability, directly a

the medical device safety act.now i would just say, if i thought for any amount of time that this would really stifle innovation, i happen to be for innovation. i happen to be for new devices. i happen to think these are good things. but i also believe in holding people accountable to the strictest standards of safety and manufacture. and i'm concerned. i'm just concerned about the fda. i've been concerned about the fda for a long time. i have a love/hate relationship with the fda. i can tell you that. sometimes they do good things. other times they don't do what they should be doing. more often than not, it's because we have not given them the resources with which to do it. and i kind of interjected, even when mr. hutt was speaking. i don't mean we don't want to give them. we should give them the resources. we've asked them to do a myriad of things. and yet we don't give them the resources to carry it out. so count me as one that also believes we ought to do more in terms of giving the fda those resources. i just

>> now what about medications? are you... >> i have some nausea medicines and hopefully i won't have to get anymore of that because one of them is $1,100 a month. >> what are you taking for pain? >> just some tylenol. >> tylenol usually doesn't do it for cancer pain. >> yeah, it doesn't, but i just try and bear with it. the main pain is in my hands and feet. >> no, that's not good, karen. if you're having more pain than what tylenol will cover, i want you to go to dr. smith and ask her what she would give you. >> okay. >> but i don't want you walking around in pain. >> all right. >> okay? >> yeah. i really never knew how much a cancer patient had to deal with, until it was put in my face. >> ma'am, stevens health care has placed you folks in our office for a past due bill $578.08. this call is an attempt to collect. any information will be used for that purpose. >> all i can do is come in and start making some payments. >> okay. >> but i can't promise more than $20 a month. i'm trying to pay out several people. >>

group and medical director of the owned and operated delivery system. >> barbara walters, senior medical director at dartmouth hitchcock chicago and -- [indiscernible] and here today with -- [indiscernible] >> i'm dick salmon, family physician and national medical director for performance improvement for significant that health. >> my name is sue williamson, deputy director of the colorado department of healthcare partnership and financing. our agency administers our public health insurance programs like medicaid and our s-chip program. >> i'm david dorr, a practicing inearnist and medical -- at oregon health and sciences university. ly explain that. i work on a model called care management plus. >> i'm allen dobson, a family physician with carolina healthcare system now. i'm the chair of the community care of north carolina and formerly the medicaid director and secretary of health. >> and my name is bob koch, i work with the national economic council. i want to thank everybody for coming. we are thrilled to have a tremendous cross-section of innovative practices and experts who think a

medical school recruitment. we have good data de young men and women who come from small towns are more likely to go into primary care and more likely to go under rural primary care, and yet the numbers of people going in a medical school increasingly represent metropolitan areas. that is where they get access to education a gift and the high end training. long hours, and additional challenges for rural and inner- city areas that are difficult to me as well. you wonder why any of us would choose to go into family medicine. there are things that we can do. if we can enhance medical school increment. it is not in the bills, but we can talk about bonuses to schools that either have high at the variability or bring in students from rural areas or non-urban areas. we can do better mentoring. those numbers are not adequate. there are could general internist out there if we could talk them into telling their story more often. the things that are not in the bill, loan paybacks. many times when you were facing the end of

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the medical device safety act. now i would just say, if i thought for any amount of time that this would really stifle innovation, i happen to be for innovation. i happen to be for new devices. i happen to think these are good things. but

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jeffrey segal, he's founder and ceo of medical justice and alan ripka, a medical malpractice attorney. good to have you both with us. >> thank you. >> in numbers, these show the numbers, medical malpractice claims and insurance premiums make up about 1% of total health care costs but the ama estimates so-called defensive medicine, a direct result of the lawsuits costing us $150 billion. let me start, if i may, with you, dr. segal. what's your reaction? >> my reaction, that number $150 billion may actually be an underestimate. i can tell you that next year, 50,000 doctors will receive a letter stating, hey, look, you've been sued. once you've been sued, that will change the doctor's behavior from then on. what is the cost? the cost is anywhere from $100 billion to $200 billion of unnecessary tests just to keep the doctor from sitting in a witness chair again. that amount of money will allow us to purchase health insurance policy for every american and pay for a policy and some change leftover. >> alan ripka, your thoughts. >> i completely disagree. when we're talking about defensive me

>> presurgical medication. the major surgical medication he was given was propofol. to be noted, in a lot of the reports it was stated he was given 25 milligrams of propofol and toxicology results are showing this is a lethal dose. 25 milligrams is a very small dose of propofol. of course, when it is given, combined with all the other ben zoe diaz bean, it's a sinner jifltic effect. >> larry: wouldn't any doctor know this is dangerous? >> you know what you're seeing is really the tip of an iceberg. what's interesting, in talking to some of my general anesthesia colleague, they're upset over the concept that there was a propofol overdose here. and blaming it on that. that's really not true. amount of propofol given was relatively small. what you see is the tip of an iceberg. it's the fact that drugs were given that will hang around in the body for hours or even days. the half-life. that means how long half of the drug will be in the body. for valium here, is three days. and so what happened is the musical chairs of the drugs that were being given, the last drug given

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something medically had to have happened. >> "something medically happened," says her husband. let's go straight to michael amon reporter with "news day" who at this minute is breaking news with a report that the family, the woman's family, is investigating a stroke-like condition that is not revealed in autopsies. it's called tia, transient ischemic attack. what is it? how do you know they're investigating that? michael? >> well, that is what the attorney for the schuler family told me today. he said that they're looking into tia, as a possible explanation. t.i.a. is like a stroke in that it is an interruption of blood flow into the brain. but it does not cause permanent damage. it only lasts a few minutes. it can last at the most up to an hour. it doesn't leave any permanent damage. and therefore, doesn't show up in an autopsy. it also does not explain why there would be all kinds of alcohol and drugs in her blood either. >> good point. laura dean mooney, madd national president, what do you make of this defense, transient ischemic attack? how does that jibe with the absolut

our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, and our cnn senior legal analyst, jeff toobin, are both here. let me start with you, sanjay. explain what the coroner has concluded because he's suggesting this anesthetic together with the other drugs resulted in a mixture that turned out to be homicide. >> reporter: that's right. we're learning about -- the term they use is acute propofol intoxication. what that means in english is he received so much of this medication propofol, which is typically used as a general anesthetic, that it, in combination with other medications, led to his death. wolf, let me tell you again real quick. we talk about the various medications that michael jackson received that night, this has been part of an affidavit we saw last week, i think we have a list of those things. i want you to take a look, for example, again at the overall medications over that short period of time starting about 1:30 in the morning going till 10:40 that morning, over nine hours. i don't know if we have that list.

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needs medical care. what is being done for these people? this is a good meeting. >> sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you. cobra, a federal law that requires employers, upon determination, severance of that employee, to make available to them up to 18 months continued, private insurance coverage at their own expense. when you no longer have the cost of the premium, cobra is beyond their reach. they can't afford it. >> we'reoing to break away from the last couple minutes of his recorded event to take you live for a medical aociation releasing a study on the effects of spefic health conditions, those -- gross domestic product. the advanced medical association. >> we release the commission report by the center for health economics and science policy at united biostores corp. and the burden of disease. i am pleased to be joined by two distinguish economists, greg de lissovoy and bryan luce. and dr. david cutler, professor of applied economics at harvard university and helen darling, president of the national b

medical school recruitment.e have good data de young men and women who come@@@@@@g @ @ mr can talk about bonuses to schools that either have high at the variability or bring in students from rural areas or non-urban areas. we can do better mentoring. those numbers are not adequate. there are could general internist out there if we could talk them into telling their story more often. the things that are not in the bill, loan paybacks. many times when you were facing the end of this training, you want to be of the pi house and pay back your lungs. we were talking about that earlier. if they give you lung payback at $200,000 for primary care, it might look more appealing than if you have to pay back $150,000 in loans, by house, and make a very small and, as your college. we will talk about opportunities for training. there will be opportunities for people who wanted trained in primary care. but there are plenty of vacancies despite the fact we close down a number of training programs because they could not fill the

medical practice is changing.edicare like every other insurer must decide if and when it will pay for some new treatment or approach. historic late, in medicare most of those decisions were made initially at the local level by the carriers, the private companies who under contract to the government manage the program. each had a medical director and they in turn had advisory committees. when something you came along they would decide whether medicare should cover its -- when something new came along. there is an effort and reason years to have greater uniformity in national decisions. there is an elaborate process. the problem is that when you have a very publicly open, broadly representative, scientifically based process it takes a long time. the number of decisions that can give made through the mechanism are not large enough. there is still a lot of reliance on medical directors and individual regions -- in individual regions of the country. host: you referred twice to the elaborate process of setting rates. wh

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it is not enough to talk only about more money and only reaching out to the medical students. that is just not going to get it done. >> you could not be more right. we do talk a lot about the pipeline, but every physician is expected to learn new stuff throughout the course of our careers. we all do that. all 24 specialties within the abms boards require periodic recertification to show that you have been keeping up with your knowledge. we have a tool now where we could begin to offer that kind of education and also measure it and hold positions accountable and recognize them and actually recognize them when they achieve it. so i think that your point is very well taken. you should be aware that some good news on the horizon, we've been talking about all the problems out there, is that 10 different specialties got together to create a subspecialty certificate. diane was very involved in this, in hospice and palliative medicine. medicine. so there now are board-certified specialist in this area, and notches in the primary care arena but in several different surgical specialties

one woman's medical mystery solved. details on a common medication making her sick.ow one teenager's tribute put her in >>> organizer of aecord breaking dance sequence is from our area. he calls it a case of his michael jackson session gone wrong. [ "thriller" plays ] 247 students at william & mary performed the six minute dance to michael jackson's thriller. and broke the record for the largest group to perform the routine. the 21-year-old, organized the dance from eastern alexandria, and plans to donate the guinness record to the college. quite a feat. >>> th first film debut at the cannes film festival. able to walk the red carpet with the stars and show her touching piece on holocaust survivors. not bad for a 15-year-old, right. wendy rieger has the story. >> reporter: michelle is an effervescent 15-year-old from silver spring, maryland, already counting the stars. >> penelope cruz, spike lee, and i would look to meet kanye west. i would look to meet so many people. leo of course. >> the documentary was selected for screening at the cannes film festival. a haunti

should americans be penalized for receiving medical care they deem necessary.zens put their lives in the hands of an unelected board? that could happen and could happen soon. joining me now is a patient advocate and committee to reduce infection deaths. i want you to explain -- >> this is the house committee bill and the kennedy bill making its way through the senate. sean: this is the kennedy bill that you've got. and this is the house version. >> they are to be melded together. sean: this is what congress never reads. >> what's important to know about these bills is they are not about covering the uninsured but about forcing everyone into budget-grade h.m.o.'s and giving government the power to limit your health care even though you or your employer is paying for the bill. in both bills, kennedy bill page 62, house bill, 37, an appointed commission will decide all the specifics, what the plains will cost, what they will cover and what the limits will be on the care. sean: isn't that the equivalent of canada? >> in the letter of the law, it appears to be that

sleep medication propofol. dr.et ger told jackson it was, quote, dangerous and potentially life threatening and could not be used outside of a hospital. authorities believe propofol is what killed jackson and the source has told cnn jackson's personal physician, dr. murray, gave him propofol within 24 hours of his death. here we see a pattern, anderson. two months before his death, dr. met ger says jackson asked him for propofol, too. dr. met ger's lawyer said the doctor prescribed drugs to him under omar arnold. omar arnold, one of the 19 aliases mentioned in the search washt. his lawyer told us dr. met ger did that because he thought it was, quote, his duty to protect privacy of his client. >> there were other doctors, too, mentioned. what's your connection to michael jackson? >> reporter: the other doctors include dr. arnold crime. asked about his name in warrant, dr. klein's lawyer said his client is cooperating with investigators. also mentioned is the las vegas dentist. and beverly hilled anesthesiologist ran

and all other medications you are taking...r if you experience muscle pain or weakness, as they may be a sign of a rare but serious side effect. how close are you to where you want to be? ask your doctor if caduet can help you go... for both your goals. >>> a woman convicted of trying to assassinate president gerald ford was released from prison this morning. lynne net fromme served more than 30 years for drawing a pistol on president ford. prom, now 60 years old, was released from a texas prison. >>> president obama yesterday gave an exclusive interview at the white house. the interviewer? >> i'm in the diplomatic room, and this is where i'm going to interview president obama. >> reporter: 11-year old damon weaver is a budding journalist from pahokee, florida who campaigned for almost a year to get an interview with the president. yesterday, he got it. >> in my town of pahokee, i've seen a lot of shootings and fights. what are you going to do about violence and keep me safe? >> it's important that parents and community members

only 9% of hospitals have medical -- computerized medical records and only 18% have computerized prescriptionsa national safety center said out for this is perennially underfunded. >> it is time to take a close look at where we got as far as safety and what steps need to be taken next. >> now, a new administration has the ball in its court. >> the obama administration says patient safety will be an important component of health care reform and it might not be a moment too soon. some authors of the regional reports as more patients are dying now that when this report was written. >> the agency for health care research and quality reports that one in seven medicare patients have what they called a serious adverse event in the past year. we will look at what the obama administration has to stay on its patient safety and health care reform. >> a long time howard county school employee was sentenced today after pleading guilty to child sex abuse involving a 17- year-oldç student. robert douglas johnson got nine years with all but 18 months suspended. that will be followed by five years' probation.

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of medical care available to us. so something's got to give. it's either going to be a kind of socialistic government that takes everything eventually, or there's going to be some other solution. but it's a terrifying subject. i mean, i have to say, you know, i'm in chicago because i'm here for the funeral of john hughes. this was a man with unlimited financial resources, incredibly, unbelievably smart, even he couldn't get perfectly adequate health care. with all his resources. how is it going to be done? >> he's the great -- he was the great film director. >> a great man. >> "ferris bueller's day off," when a lot of us got to know you. penn jillette, there are 45 million americans who have no health insurance right now. this is unlike any other industrialized society in the world right now. what should the u.s. be doing about that? >> well, you know, all these numbers, the 45 million, some of these people are perfectly healthy people who are moving through a phase and choosing not to have health care. but the whole

a premium dollar is used by the insurance company to actually pay medical claims. and that has been shrinking over the years since the industry's been dominated by, or become dominated by, for-profit insurance companies. back in the early '90s, or back during the time that the clinton plan was being debated, 95 cents out of every dollar was sent, you know, on average was used by the insurance companies to pay claims. last year, it was down to just slightly above 80%. so, investors want that to keep shrinking. and if they see that an insurance company has not done what they think meets their expectations with the medical loss ratio, they'll punish them. investors will start leaving in droves. i've seen a company stock price fall 20% in a single day, when it did not meet wall street's expectations with this medical loss ratio. >> moyers: and they do what to make sure that they keep diminishing the medical loss ratio? >> rescission is one thing. denying claims is another. being, you know, really careful as they review claims, particularly for things like liver transpl

if we could show those pictures again of the medical examiner's office in this last hour, the medical examiner vehicle has been pulling up to the medical examiner's office. here one of our producers on the ground caught this picture of at least one, possibly two gurneys going inside. it is now 6:15 p.m. on the east end. obviously the sun is about to go down. the divers have been out there now for about six hours trying to recover each and every person. believed to be nine people total, according to mayor bloomberg. a crash situation that he described as not survivable. something that john told us early, but we did not want to believe. who do we have now? bob is with us. bob, i would assume to look at these exclusive pictures that fox has that show the tragedy as it occurs, do you get a better sense of what might have happened today? >> yes. i do. it's quite clear that what we had was a aircraft flying too low, running into the helicopter and causing this collision. once again, fixed wing aircraft and rotary aircraft do not belong flying in the same air space. they should be at higher

doctors prescribe medication to you. and they don't ask you what you're taking. >> reporter: well, soon, triple a will unveil a website so you can cross check the medications you're taking to see if there are any interactions or to see if there is anything in that medication that will hinder your driving. >> thanks, mike. that study looked at 630 drivers, from ages 56 to 93. and was conducted by the university of alabama. >>> divers continue to search the hudson river for clues. some of the victims of saturday's midair collision were remembered today. vic joins us from the newsroom with details from today's memorial service. >>> nine people died when a sightseeing helicopter collided with a plane over the hudson river. this morning, a memorial service was held for the five people who died in the crash. their bodies were then flown back to italy. they were part of a larger group who came to new york to celebrate a 25th wedding anniversary. 30 more pieces from the helicopter were recover this morning. they included gauges

more medical conditions, more medications, more doctors to keep all straight. what i put together is a list of a few things that people should have with them. there's two types of medical information that older adults should have with them. the medical information that is most important is a list of their medical conditions. they should talk to their doctor to help them put this list together. but on that list should be the medical condition, the state that condition is in and what they are doing about it. i'll give you an example. if you have high blood pressure on your list should be high blood pressure, normal blood pressure for me is about 120 over 80 and i'm taking three medicines and following a low-salt diet. >> that detail? >> yes, why is it important? it's important number one for you to know. but if you go to an unfamiliar setting and end up god for bid in a hospital or ee they need that information to better take care of you. >> where do you write it? >> doesn't matter. some people keep flitd a journal, a notebook, doesn't matter, as long as it's the

that aren't medically necessary.ction and what really can be an illegal use of aliases to get your hands on prescriptions. >> it seems clear michael jackson whether he was traveling so many different places or not did not have a centralized medical authority overseeing all his care. >> right. >> he was going from here to there, doctor to doctor and perhaps it was doctor shopping. >> look, when you are michael jackson or heath ledger or anna nicole smith or any other celebrity and you want to get your hands on these drugs, you are going to get them. even if a nurse or doctor will stand up and say no, eventually you will find a doctor who will tell you that. you find someone who is financially compromised and i'm not saying murray is this person because i think he is being scapegoated, you are going to find that person eventually. ultimately they do that shopping and get their hands on those prescription drugs and they can be abused and they are being abused, too much. >> jami floyd, thanks for being with us. >>> inves

that's why you take the medication. you'd be surprised how hard that is to prove. >> everyone who has written one of these novels has something in there about saying best practices, you know, we're going to reward those making a difference. and again, the problem is going to be how are you going to measure it? how will you know? >> that's where the idea that someone will come between you and your doctor, also comes -- the comparative effectiveness study shows doing a stint doesn't make that much of a difference. you as a patient go and say i should get a stint, actually you know what? it doesn't look like that big of a difference, anderson. you're not going to get tncit. >> the notion though that greater efficiency will somehow help us pay for this or more preventative care, that's not factually correct or that's not factually provable at this point. >> that aeps the way 's the way. medically, morally it makes perfect sense but from a financial, economic argument, it's tough to prove. >> the biggest blow the health care

that was the medical information given to me. the medical report that came from the director of health and social care from the scottish prison service was date it had 10th of august. that was based upon an interview and examination on the 3rd of august when it was made quite clear that there had been a change for the worse in his circumstances. i do not have the benefit of dr. simpson's training in medicine or psychiatry, but o i do follow the rules and guidance that are laid down for cabinet secretaries for justice. i do recall that dr. simpson has also served as the minister for justice. i followed the same rules and regulations that he would have been required to do so had it become before him. >> we are getting very short of time. >> thank you very much. and there have been countless reports in the media and indeed comments from members of this parliament concerning the avingt of information on this case. can the cabinet secretary therefore once again consider an order to bring an end to these baseless accusations when they

should americans be penalized for receiving medical care they deem necessary.the citizens put their lives in the hands of an unelected board? that could happen and could happen soon. joining me now is a patient advocate and committee to reduce infection deaths. i want you to explain -- >> this is the house committee bill and the kennedy bill making its way through the senate. sean: this is the kennedy bill that you've got. and this is the house version. >> they are to be melded together. sean: this is what congress never reads. >> what's important to know about these bills is they are not about covering the uninsured but about forcing everyone into budget-grade h.m.o.'s and giving government the power to limit your health care even though you or your employer is paying for the bill. in both bills, kennedy bill page 62, house bill, 37, an appointed commission will decide all the specifics, what the plains will cost, what they will cover and what the limits will be on the care. sean: isn't that the equivalent of canada? >> in the letter of the law, it appears to

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medical school by medical school determines this. it's a huge problem. and there is no health reform without medical education reform. >> let's take a question here in the ont from gail. >> i agree with the concept that's been raised several times about the need to change the reimbursement system, reward the kind of behavior we'd like to see. i'm very supportive of selective loan forgiveness. i think it could be much more effective in an era when medical schools tuitions are very high and physician income growth has been very low or negative and we are not giving it enough attention. but aside from changing the monetary incentives, important as that is, i'm going to implore you to use your influence to indicate this is more than just about getting the money redistributed. it is going to be how do we try to make sure we have the full spectrum of people who could be working on these issues, on can we make more and better use of advanced use of nurse practitioners to help us with our shortage of primary care physicians? you talked about training new physici

chief medical correspondent dr.son jay gupta went inside one operating room to watch the drug being given properly and all of the safety measures involved and watch how quickly it can stop the patient's breathing. watch. >> reporter: so we are here inside the operating room with the doctor, the sheaf of anesthesiologists here. propofol is a medication he use all the time. is this it over here? >> yeah. >> reporter: milk of amnesia they call it. >> milk of amnesia. vincent, you okay? we have to monitor his ekg, we have to monitor his co2, make sure he's breathing, we have to see a saturation, make sure he's ventilating. >> reporter: that's all typical stuff? >> yes, standard of care, yes. >> reporter: okay, so the propofol -- >> start infusing this and get a little sleepy, vincent, give me good, deep breaths. >> watch us go and take a look at his eyes how quickly -- >> deep breaths, vincent, doing great. may feel a little burning, okay? >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one -- >> there's a reas

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and her medical doctorate is from harvard medical school. please join me in welcoming her.[applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i want to thank you for the introduction. i am going to tell you all that i have a cold. i am not shaking hands. i am not hugging. please bear with me as i go through my presentation because of that. this is a wonderful opportunity to be here. obviously everyone knows that health care reform is on everyone's lips these day. in ways that are surprising to some, but it is a wonderful opportunity to tell you something about what we have done in massachusetts and to talk about the challenge its and successes that we have had. i am just going to go through and tell you what we have actually tried in massachusetts and show you a little bit of the results that we have seen, both from increasing the number of insured and also trying to get you an idea of the impact it has had on the people. we are more than just counting the number of people with insurance. just to summarize the health care in massachusetts it includes several initiatives. government sup

join me and over a million people who trust liberty medical. andrew: this white house is the most technically savvy administration in history. it wants to own your computer when you sign up for cash for clunkers. it wants to monitor your browsing habits with computer cookies. it wants you to report your neighbor if you notice anything fishy. now it wants us to believe that the most recent internet-related story involving third-party healthcare e-mails is another mistake. the white house is pushing programs and bills down our throats and it knows exactly how to use the internet as a means to its end. but americans hike the viewer that provided glenn beck with the cash for clunkers own your computer story, and some journalists are confronting the government, demanding to know how the white house gains access to the e-mail addresses of millions of americans. here is my question -- where is the rest of the media on this store i? in los angeles, andrew brightbart, publish of brightbart.com and big hollywood.com, welcome. it is a pleasure having you