practice in family medicine, general pediatrics, preventive medicine, osteopathic general medicine, obstetrics and gynecology or general dentistry will receive funds and of the program and the authorization level in this program represents a 400% increase and that is five and for tens of billion compared to one and three tens of billion in the crenshaw and that is an annual increase so over all there are 20 new programs of the rise in every existing program increase from 30 to 730 percent over current law. again and to place the emphasis on primary care. >> senator murray. >> what this does is essentially limit the funding in this entire title of programs the only train primary care workers and i think all of us recognize there is a need for primary care and that as of the only place where we need to create a strong workforce in health care. we have shortages and a lot of other areas. the patients entered, the senator precursory has talked about and nurses, social workers, mental health professionals probably an important parts of our health-care system. it and a person is someone very well wh

now the average obstetrical patient gets four ultrasounds. twice as many as they need. why? because you've got to demonstrate that you did an ultrasound in case something's wrong. then i'll talk about one other thing, called cerebral palsy. what the science tells us now is 97% of it occurs in utero. doesn't have anything to do with the birthing experience yet every year in courts across this country, we're rewarding hundreds of billions of dollars for something that was nobody's fault other than an accident of reproduction. or progression and the maturation of an infant. yet a doctor changes his practice forever because of that. we pay out tremendous dollars and we raise the cost of health care for everyone. so to sit and say that this is an attack on the legal system and our foundational principles is inaccurate at best, but also reveals there's a complete lack of understanding what's actually going on out there. somebody who has experienced it. here's the other side of costs that you don't know. every doctor that gets sued in this country is going to spend about three week

about the impact that's medical liability has on their costs, and it certainly has on things like obstetric, for instance. but we are a high-quality, low- cost state. so there are other variations that are much more significant, based on the evidence i have seen. host: laura on the democratic line from denver, colorado. caller: i have a question about health care. i have been with kaiser permanente for 11 years. in november when the switchover of everything going on, they were going to george three-time is the amount, and it went about doubled each month so i had to quit after 11 years. so i am wondering when they say you get to keep the insurance that you have, that is really not true. and i would like to know which country does this work in? guest: first, let me say that nothing under the legislation we are working on an house, sort of unprecedented effort where you have three committees working hand and glove literally with the members, the leadership, and staff producing -- nothing in that would prevent you from keeping the insurance that you have. the president says, and i happen to ag