if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous openernd then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are.

. >> mendelson did not forget his lack of support. george wh bush welcomed nelson mandela to any white house for the first time. >> mr. mandela in the eyes of million around the world you stand against apartheid, against a system that bases the rights and freedoms of citizenship on the basis of one's skin. that is repugnant to the ideals we in america hold so dear. >> reporter: he calls mandela the man who enbodies the hope of millions, and said apartheid must end. >> to receive the support of any government is in our situation something of enormous importance, but to receive the support of the government of the united states of america, the leader of the world is something beyond words. >> reporter: this support helped mandela politically. >> and defend the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: but when bill clinton was elected the relationship grew personal. mandela made numerous trips to the u.s. including soon after his election as president of south africa. and president clinton traveled to south africa and visited the

john mendelson says the science doesn't match prometa's promotion.s a professor of medicine at uc san francisco and senior scientist at the addiction pharmacology lab at the california pacific medical center. he tests therapies for the national institute on drug abuse. >> you don't think there's anything special about this combination of drugs? >> so far, the evidence would suggest no. >> mendelson says none of the drugs used in prometa appears to affect addiction. >> terren peizer says he wants to make prometa the standard of care. >> that is his goal. he wants to be-- he wants to make it the standard without any evidence. and he's spending money to recruit the treaters and to recruit the insurance payers, but not to prove that the treatment works. >> proving that it works would require what scientists call a double blind placebo controlled study. that's a human trial in which half the patients get a placebo, or sugar pill, and neither the doctors nor the patients know who got the real drugs until the end. peizer went to market without that kind of

we have dan mendelson, avalier health founder and ceo. and john cochrane, professor university of chicago booth school of business. gentlemen, welcome. we're hoping to get roy. he's the numbers guy. i know neither of guys are the numbers guy. but let me begin with you. john cochrane, you have written extensively, that obamacare as it is presently constituted is doomed to fail. these numbers would suggest you're right. tell us why and give me a sense where we should go. >> well, i think it's not -- it depends what you mean by fail. it's doomed to create a big government bureaucracy that then manages our health care through three or four big highly protected institutions and give us bad care at high prices. so that's where we head it if we keep it. >> so bad care, high prices. you're talking about, what, limited networks for doctors and hospitals. you're talking about higher premiums. you're talking about higher deductibles. that's what you're referring to? >> yeah. and just a market that is missing the innovation that other markets that we

mendelson compressing number of doctors include hadded that way. you can keep sharper eye on it? well, maybe. on the other hand this gets more and more towards the core of this. which is the decision about what constitutes good care. >> yes. >> which is keeping an eye. it's being made not by you, but by your particular presences but more and more by some centralized authority whether insurance company, or whether it being you know independent advisory board you spoke of, which is one that got essences but it doesn't, isn't really what is supposed to be. more patient centered. >> we haven't got to the days of i pap. this awaits american people. there is a real question about how this is going to play out, you think of nancy pelosi. we have to pass the bill before we can know what is in it. americans starting to see they can't keep plans maybe not keep their doctor. maybe cannot keep their hospital. and now, it may be that they actually have a bureaucrat telling them what tests they can and cannot have. what happens when we get to that point? iets not going to be popular. that is t

. >> reporter: mendelson says so far the total enrollment is about 150,000 at both the state and federal levels, but more than half that, 80,000, came from just california, meaning the federal marketplaces are way behind. >> you have to run through the system well over 200,000 people per day for those 23 days in december. so is the web site really capable of handling 200,000 signups just to cover the individual cancellations? >> reporter: but the pre-christmas crush isn't the only problem. the federal government hasn't built the software to accurately tell insurance companies who's actually enrolled. one report says up to one-third of the enrollments since october 1st have errors so people may think they have coverage when they do not. >> one problem is that the insurance companies may not know that somebody's enrolled when they think they're enrolled because the signup process was so screwed up. >> the web site was supposed to be the entry point for enrolling and automating the enrollment and paying of insurance plans. it is nowhere near ready to do that. >> reporter: in fact, officials

. >> your question, mendelson said the up side is the costs will be down.n side is it restricts patient choice. >> what's interesting -- i talked to one of my doctors about this -- he said if i did want to buy into this system, no one contacted me. no one asked me if i want to buy in. my patients, if they're signing up for obamacare i'm not going to be on the list because not once has the government asked me if i want to sign up. he entered in his zip code on the obamacare website to find out what doctors in our zip code were on the list, and found two doctors on the upper east side. that was it that had signed up for it. >> there just aren't many details on the website when you go to sign up -- >> next time when you go to your doctor ask. >> let's be honest -- crazy. >> let's talk about yesterday -- by the way, you did an incredible job at the memorial service yesterday. >> thank you. >> that was prime time there. >> we thought the memorial service was going to start at 4:00 a.m. we were told that. for one hour we were discussing what was happening and pai