we pay the shot. let's pay for these doctors to go through so they won't get hung up with high, high debt when they get through their schooling. then they will come to smaller communities. and about the wait times, i had a hip replacement four years ago. i opted to go to toronto for it. i could have gone to the city next to mine but i opted to go to toronto. i hasn't seen this surgeon in 20 years. i saw him in 30 days and in the next 30 days i had my hip replacement. then i had home care, i had fizzyo therapy at home. it was just fantastic. i had nurses come in and take care of me all at no expense to me. thank god for our system, sir. i hope we keep it and i hope we don't go down this private sector slippery slope. host: thank you for the call. guest: well, some people are receiving good care in canada. and when we're talking about wait times, some people don't have to wait that they're lucky to have that. fortunately it's not everyone -- unfortunately, it's not everyone who has the same kind of serv

we know young people are going to have to pay more. >> okay, so young people will have to pay more. >> it's almost 1/3 of the money to pay is coming out of medicare. that means the elderly are making a huge donation to cover everyone else. there are also more subtle things on restrictions to elderly care that we won't see play out until health reform is fully in place. >> there are big questions and people are really concerned if their treatment is going to be dialed back in any way. will there be limits to the kinds of procedures or limits or drugs you can take. >> what we are are structures in place that will make determinations of that. for example, a health benefits committee or a health choices administration. they will ultimately determine what people have to have in their insurance or have to pay out of their pocket. we don't know if our care is going to be dialed back and we won't know. >> it's certainly a massive program we're talking about here. there are lots of questions. not a ton of answers. we appreciate your coming on and telling us about these issues. thanks for your

>> i'm not afraid of the pay czar. the pay czar will have limited impact on most people.t people are at-will employees. our salaries can be reduced at any time. the pay czar will have limited impact on anybody else. he only has jurisdiction over the top companies that took the most money from tarp. that's seven companies. only the senior executives at those companies. it's a very limited impact. i think he's a big talker. i think he thistle be like the wizard of oz in the emerald city. i think he will be more like the scarecrow. david: doesn't it bother when you hear him saying i have the discretion in any company that received federal assistance, not just the tarp funds? >> david, in a weird way, it makes me happy that he says that. now it's out there for everybody to see. it's just one more brick that is weighing down the obama administration. up there with rahm emanuel's never let a crisis go to waste and some of these other exorbitant examples of overreach, the public is now seeing what these guys are all about. that's why their ratings are tanking. that's why i think

they pass something they didn't pay for at all and left for future generations to have to pay in terms of debt. that doesn't make sense to me. can i say this, though, randy, i appreciate your question, the respectful way you asked it. by the way, i believe in the constitution too. so, thank you very much. appreciate it. right there in the green in the. yeah. yes, you. >> so, when funding dried up last fall due to the economic downturn, i lost my job in a nonprofit helping struggling teens. and i'd like to thank you because, because of your stimulus funding to community health clinics i now have a new job helping people who are mostly uninsured people with mental health. i'm a therapist. my name is evelyn rick, by the way. >> that's great. >> but there was a gap where i lost my insurance in between losing my job at the nonprofit and my current job. i'd like to ask you how you will help people with that gap when they're unemployed. >> well, first of all, the recovery package, the stimulus helps people precisely with that gap when we said we'll cover 65% of the cost of cobra. how many peo

they won't pay for my surgery, but won't pay for abortions. >> call your senator. stop the government take over for health care. >> as the health care conversation continues, c-span's health care hub is a key resource. go online and follow the latest tweets, video ads and links. keep up-to-date with health care events like town hall meetings, house and senate debates. the c-span health care hub at c-span.org/health care. >>s in, your calls and comments on "washington journal." scheduled speakers, tom price, mike pen, michelle shad oc and others. >> sunday, the contributing editor and columnist for news week magazine on the public radio series against the odds, which profiles people who have overcome difficult obstacles in life. >> british voters are expected to go to poles in national elections next spring. this weekend, the conservative leader on how government can change policies. sunday night, c-span. >> how is c-span funded? >> the u.s. government. >> some of it is government raised. >> not public. >> probably the agency. >> i want to say for me, my tax dollars

regardless of health care reform, we're all paying who have health care or who pay taxes, we're all paying for people who are overweight to the tune of -- the cost of being -- having diabetes, the cost of heart disease is over $500 billion a year. we're all paying that now. i think that's something that should be looked at. that's even forgetting having compassion for people who have a horrible quality of life. >> how am i paying for your diabetes? >> jonathan, about one in 10 dollars spent in health care is straightup obesity related. whether you have any government health care or not, it's passed on to the private sector health care. >> let people pay for their own obesity. >> exactly why they need the fat police. if you could charge extra if you're overweight like you're a bad driver, which is exactly what they should do. unfortunately they have all these problems with doing that. that would be great. you need the government. because you can't sue the government for discrimination that easily at least. that is why we need to do this. these people need to pay their way. >> the point is t

to pay for in terms of debt. that doesn't make sense to me. can i say this though? randy, i appreciate your question. the respectful way you asked it and by the way, i believe in the constitution, too. so thank you very much. appreciate it. all right. right there in the green in the back there. yeah. that's you. that's you. >> okay. so when funding dried up last fall to the economic downturn, i lost my job at a nonprofit helping struggling teens, and i'd like to thank you because -- because of your stimulus going to community health clinics i now have a new job helping people -- >> that's great. >> -- mostly uninsured people with mental health issues. i'm a therapist. i wanted to thank you for that, but there was a gap in there where i lost my insurance in between losing my job at the nonprofit and my current job. i would like to ask you how you will help people with that gap when they're unemployed. >> well, first of all, the recovery package, the stimulus, helped people precisely with that gap when we said we'l

obama's pay czar. 60 days to look at these and approve them. should the government have anything to do with this at all? we are joined by steve moore. i and the stand you are not a fan of this idea. >> i don't like the government setting pay standards. if you're talking about a case where the institution that government money, that is a different issue. we are talking about banks that are paying back the money they owe to the government and once they do, they should be free. we want our companies to be able to recruit the best talent that they can. to have the government micromanaging them is offensive and it will be very difficult for these banks to succeed. >> these companies, if they had received some money, that is how they got on the list? >> we are on thin the stage for some of the banks are repaying the money. once they do that, set them free. let them organize and manage their businesses. in my opinion, these decisions about executive pay. i agree, in some cases, these pay scales have gotten ou

we pay the shot. let's pay for these doctors to go through so they won't get hung up with high, high debt when they get through their schooling. then they will come to smaller communities. and about the wait times, i had a hip replacement four years ago. i opted to go to toronto for it. i could have gone to the city next to mine but i opted to go to toronto. i hasn't seen this surgeon in 20 years. i saw him in 30 days and in the next 30 days i had my hip replacement. then i had home care, i had fizzyo therapy at home. it was just fantastic. i had nurses come in and take care of me all at no expense to me. thank god for our system, sir. i hope we keep it and i hope we don't go down this private sector slippery slope. host: thank you for the call. guest: well, some people are receiving good care in canada. and when we're talking about wait times, some people don't have to wait that they're lucky to have that. fortunately it's not everyone -- unfortunately, it's not everyone who has the same kind of serv

then someone says will pay united $500. you pay -- will pay $9,500.ou go off and take care of that patient. in the late 1990's, we cut their payments. the plans to not want to be in private medicare. they were dropping. i wanted things to come back on an even playing field. congress in 2003 primed the pump to catch up. dollar for dollar -- we could debate four days which program was better the old or the new. the average person in the medicare advantage plan which is a private health plan, their plan is subsidized about 12%. guest: there has always been an alice in wonderland type of character in this discussion and debate. if you go back a few years, you can find the congressional record of members of congress saying we need to reduce medicare spending so we have to pay them more. the data and the evidence has been clear for 20 years that you cannot save medicare any money by encouraging greater power dissipation of private plans, get the ideological thought that having private plans in the system will save you money has been so powerful that congres

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you have a bureaucraticrocess, if you will, for reviing the pay. it was cated by a bureaucratic process to begin th it's interesting, historicall, judges have always had the power that hs had to overturn pay yet th've almostnever used thatower because thr views, it's impossie to appropriately predic they, instead, ry on the good officeof the board of directors and focused inste on e board, whe they appropriatel stimulated and appropriately comprise in creating the pay pkage themselves. ey let the heavy lifting be done bthe board. same thingor a pay czar. it reay sort of puzzlese why you would create a pition to begin with. it wasn't congressionally authorized. 's sort of a n idea. paicularly using the word "czar" is a little scary especially for someone who i steep in.s. busines practices. >> suzanne: do youecognize this is highly politicized process th people are oraged by the levels of compensation in this country? so whas the soluti? ok, maybe it's not a pay czar but howor should we limit executive compensation >> wel peoplehave a righto be angr

the pay czar will tell everybody who took tarp money what they can pay. they will drop the bar. everyone else who didn't attack tarp money are saying they only get x why pay my guy 3-x. they are setting the level pay to tarp and nontarp recipients. the free market should allow people what they deserve to be paid. it also doesn't mean give them tarp money. brenda: that leaks into the private market but you are not worried about your wallet, huh? >> well, i agree that if they are artificially setting price for labor low -- this is high-end labor. this is not janitor level stuff. but ultimately that stays within the tarp system and the tarp system is a financial services industry which is arguably already overpaid and has a bizarre model. i would be support worried if i was a c.e.o. my concern is once this guy runs out of people to go after i will arbitrarily figure out what a c.e.o. is worth and i think the last 10 years on this show that is an area where i would be concerned. brenda: pat, i would let you speak for yourself. >> executive compensation has opinion out of control a l

same thing for a pay czar. it really sort of puzzles me why you would create a position to begin with. it wasn't congressionally authorized. it's sort of a new idea. particularly using the word "czar" is a little scary especially for someone who is steep in u.s. business practices. >> suzanne: do you recognize this is a highly politicized process that people are outraged by the levels of compensation in this country? so what's the solution? ok, maybe it's not a pay czar but how or should we limit executive compensation? >> well, people have a right to be angry. i'm one of them. i think the pay levels these institutions are appalling. it's a real problem. the question is how do you effectively solve it? the solution, i think, comes from a very simple answer. it has to do with the board itself. you have a board of directors of these institutions that are, number one, independent of management and objective in reviewing pay, number two, have lots of stock, lots of equity in the company so it's their own money that

let's look at your pay-down plan. if you can find the money, we're going to work on that, you can pay this down quickly. right now what you're paying, ten years and eight months and $50,000 in interest. if you can add and i know you have high new minimum payments, if you can manage those and find whether it's getting another job, cutting the budget, another $100 a month to the highest rate card, you could be out if four years nine months and pay less in interest, 20,000 less. plan b, 500 bucks, i know it sounds obscene. to give you the idea of a power of it all, three years, ten months. what do you think? for any plan to succeed, partially you have to commit to stop spending and stop using the cards. and being able to make the minimum payments? what are you leaning towards? >> basically our cards are already gone, i don't have to worry about that. and with the one card raising -- i had three cards with this. and one raised it $500 and another one raised it another $400, we're going to have problems meeting those. >> y

namely paying for it. the price tag is immense. >> we had make sure that no insurance company or government bur owe accurate gets between you and the care that you need. and we will do this without add to go our definite set over the next decade. >> here's my question. how come the democrats plan to save money will cost us more money? how come their plan to reduce health care costs will cost us trillions more in tax dollars? >> somebody will pay. the president obama wants it to be the wealthy and hes warns the cost to everyone of doing nothing. it's hidden to most of us, but getting larger every day. the cost of insuring a family has more than doubled since 1999 and the portion picked up by you, money straight out of your pocket is, is up 117%. why has health care costs gone snup. >> being of hip replacements and all the things that you can do in you that are expensive that you couldn't do ten year ago. baby boomers who are aging, more people using more expensive care. and you made a very good point earlie

the first 60 days you are in the hospital, you pay the first $1,060. medicare pays the rest.f you are in for another 30 days after that, there is a copayment of $267 per day. beyond that $9, it gets more expensive. the best book of seniors have some type of supplemental insurance. -- the best part have supplemental insurance. -- the vast part. it tends to be about $3 or $4 per month for the supplemental insurance. -- $300 or $400 per month. the next for you about is medicare advantage. it is a private medicare plan to provide different benefits that usually do not have these gaps. host: why is there a deductible , $1,000.68? jake -- $1,0068. guest: it is not intended to cover every dollar. is more like if you hit a certain threshold it will cover these expenses. lower income people have medicaid instead. their 7 million seniors who have dual coverage. medicaid also provides supplemental coverage. so, the issue is that for people who are notpo poor, this should cover some of the cost. the idea was to make sure that the beneficiary has some sense of sharing the costs. and also

we are paying for this indirectly that you welfare and you are going to pay for it down the line if they don't know how to caror kids. i wouldn't have minded a few tips before i took this little creature home. >> that is good but john a million dollars this >> wouldn't it be cheap are to neuter poor people and euthanize old people? where does this end. this nanny state is out of control. most of this is not stimulus. it is social net and safety net spending . this insane. >> jonathan, again the $120 million . we have deficits and spendsing money like drunken sailors. >> it is chilling. that is the problem. once health is public then the public has a very vested interest in your health and it starts with the assistance, then influence and ultimately control. honestly, tracy, government nurses in private homes? that is straight out of communist china. >> do you have any idea what it takes to raise a child? >> government are not parents. >> education -- they are trying to help them. >> why did you have kids if you didn't know how to take care them. >> there are crack addicts having children

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you will not know medicare will pay -- is paying the bills. -- you not notice of medicare is paying the bills. you may not want it, but you would get it. medicare is pain before they do. -- paying a before they do. there he people turn it down. art a 65 years old you are on it, period. guest: you are on it if you pay in. host: florida. caller: this is dr. mckayla, thanks for c-span for doing this important segment. my question is why medicare denies the american liberties to patients and how they're going to make it worse. the medicare is running out of money. if you're a patient you want to pay an extra $50 to your doctor to get seen quicker, medicare denies that right to patients. also, if you want to leave the medicare program, as jat just said, you are de-- as the gentleman just said, you are trapped in that program and there's no competition. finally, medicare wants to institute called pay for performance that wants to pay doctors for meeting certain government cree with the medicare with the medicaid supplemental because medicare pays 53% of my costs so i lose money every time i t

if we can pay off the bills, we would prefer to pay them off. i think the stress and strain has finally hit me, you know. but i just have to keep reminding myself things could be worse. >> surprise! >> hi, i didn't expect all y'all here. >> the last year and a half it's been pretty stressful. >> happy birthday! >> thank you. >> you're welcome >> it has gotten better knowing that the cancer is in remission. still it's always in the back of my mind, what if it doesn't last? what are we going to do then because we still don't have insurance. this is something that i'll have to think about as long as i'm lucky enough to have karen with me. >> ♪ happy birthday to you! happy birthday dear karen! ♪ happy birthday to you! ♪ >> oh, those are cool. i think that was my junior year picture. the bald headed one, of course. well, i'm glad to be 50, and i'm glad to still be here. life is to be lived to die and that's just the way it is. everybody's going to be there one day. i just look at it i got another day, i'm happy. >> joe is getting all this expensive t

other 750 penalty that you would pay. to the public option because i would be better off as a small business operator paying the eight percent or paying the 750 fine than i would in the private sector on the cost of insurance. the president said keep your plan. i keep saying there will fot be a plan to compete with. government is subsidizing the plan and the other one has the subsidy. the outcome of reality there will not be a choice that i keep hearing we will be able to keep. >> this is from minnesota. we know competition brings down cost as the beautev capitalism. why are the states limited? >> part of the that is because the insurance companies are regulated in the state level and that could be reformed. thanks to all of you who gave us e-mails and calls. because your paption has been helpful. we'll be back with closing thought to wrap it all up. don't go away. retionary strip that sticks to your teeth so well, you can even drink water with it on. crest whitestrips advanced seal. get a dramatically whiter smile while

>> somebody will pay. the president twants wants it te wealthy and he also warns of the cost of doing nothing to rich and poor. it's getting larger every day. according to the nonpartisan kaiser family foundation the cost of insuring a family has more than doubled since 1999 and the portion picked up by you straight out of your pocket is up 117%. why has health care cost gone up so dramatically? >> think of hip replacements and stints and all of the things you can do now that are expensive that you couldn't do ten years ago, 15 years ago. you have baby boomers aging. more and more people using more expensive care. you made a good point earlier. 20% is 80% of the cost and that's a big cost in one part of the demographic and that part of the demographic is only getting bigger. >> right. >> no one does it particularly well in terms of controlling the costs, either the public system, the private system, or other countries in the world. just about everywhere you have health care costs out pacing inflation just

is the government paying for your business? is the government paying for your business?n? do you help out the communities that you serve in? how about you, carmines, do you help out the communities you serve in? >> >> where do they get the power, judge? >> they claim they get the power in the constitution. they have exceeded the constitution and come up with a ridiculous bases to justify their having the power. glenn: let me go to steve. >> i agree with the judge, he is one of my heroes. it is beyond the national endowment for the arts. the government routinely, glenn, and almost everything they do now a days is unconstitutional. this whole mess here is rooted in the fact that they make up the rules as they go along. they think something is a good idea, so they say let's do it. all these bailouts, they are constitutionally dubious at best. national endowment of the arts is an egregious example. glenn: you want the national endowments for the arts, fine, but how about the $700 million that we just spent on wild horses? our country is burning down to the ground! we need to

will have you to pay to commute? will have you to pay for daycare? what's the tax implication? will it push you into a higher tax bracket and air not making as much as you thought? finally, are you going to have to pay for any equipment? there are legitimate call centers where you can work at home and take calls but you have to have a designated land line for $25 or $30 a month so you have to work five or six hours just to pay for your equipment. >> also it can impact your quality of life of course. when you look for moon lighting positions are we talking about bartending or restaurant hostess or waitress? are there other opportunities? >> it really runs the gamut. f for somebody young ter can be a bar, restaurant, baby-sitting. for somebody older usually an extension of what they do on the job. so an i.t. person maybe helps people set up home computer equipment in their home. >> let's talk about when you take on the second job and you look at the time that you put into it. you're saying put a time limit on yourself and set some goals. it's fine to take an extra job if you need

>> somebody will pay.nt wants it to be the wealthy, and as you heard at the top, he also warns the cost of doing nothing to rich and poor. it's getting larger every day. according to the nonpartisan kaiser family foundation the cost of insuring a family has more than doubled since 1999 and the portion picked up by you money straight out of your pocket, is up more than 117%. why has health care cost gone up so dramatically? >> think of hip replacements and stints and statins and all of the things that you can do now that are expensive that you couldn't do ten years ago, 15 years ago. you have baby boomers aging. more and more people using more expensive care. you made a good point earlier. 20% is 80% of the cost and that's a big cost in one part of the -- one part of the demographic and that part of the demographic is only getting bigger. >> right. >> and it's worth pointing out, no one does it particularly well in terms of controlling the costs, either the public system, the private system, or other countr

a co-pay. thing which are discretionary, that extra mri test, that extra chemotherapy, where there's no evidence it's really going to works, you might have to pay more for. maybe even a lot more. let me give you one of my favorite examples, as you heard, i'm on oncologist. i happen to be a breast oncologist. so i'll pick on the prostate doctors. this year, there will be more than 100,000 american man diagnosed with prostate cancer, most of them early stage prostate cancer. there's a lot of ways to treat that. one way is watchful waiting. for many men it will not be a threat and they will die with the disease and not of the disease. another way is surgery, remove the prostate. a third way is radiation therapy and inside of radiation therapy, there are at least four different flavors of radiation therapy. there's 3d radiation, the traditional style you use in mri to focus the beam. it costs about $11,000. there's breaky therapy, where you take little radiation seeds and actually implant it in the

we pay the shot. let's pay for these doctors to go through so they won't get hung up with high, high debt when they get through their schooling. then they will come to smaller communities. and about the wait times, i had a hip replacement four years ago. i opted to go to toronto for it. i could have gone to the city next to mine but i opted to go to toronto. i hasn't seen this surgeon in 20 years. i saw him in 30 days and in the next 30 days i had my hip replacement. then i had home care, i had fizzyo therapy at home. it was just fantastic. i had nurses come in and take care of me all at no expense to me. thank god for our system, sir. i hope we keep it and i hope we don't go down this private sector slippery slope. host: thank you for the call. guest: well, some people are receiving good care in canada. and when we're talking about wait times, some people don't have to wait that they're lucky to have that. fortunately it's not everyone -- unfortunately, it's not everyone who has the same kind of serv

that's paying a lot. >> paying a lot.ess you're talking about, washington, that's a lot of money. >> should have given that money to the people top pay the bills. >> and everyone, thank you very much. a lot of fun. >>> and the companies are alive with the white house for health care reform. our next guest says, that's going to cost you big time.  >> george: on the surchs sounds bike a victory for proponents of health care reform. the pharmaceutical companies onboard working with democrats in the finance committee, receiving praise from the white house. for an $80 billion pledge to reduce costs over are the next ten years. former clinton cabinet member robert reich said he's appall by the deal twine the white house and the pharmaceutical industry. i asked an an alliance will mean for your drug costs. >> christine, we don't know the details of the deal. in fact, the white house has been living a little around whether there was a deal or what the term was. according to the pharmaceutical industry, there was a deal, ther

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will pay?>> yeah. >> what does it really cost? >> well, it costs more than that, i am not sure exactly how much more. my -- we are way beyond what we charge. what we charge and what we collect is totally different. >> but at that point, if medicare is going to pay $20,000, who determines what the insurance company will pay? >> we negotiate with the insurance company. >> do they negotiate off the medicare price? >> absolutely, that's part of the rub, we feel that's an unfair floor, medicare sets the rate and everyone wants to go there.p;% but we lose money with the floor rate that medicare sets. >> how does medicare set the rate? >> i don't know. >> you have no idea? >> no, i don't. >> is that frustrating for you? >> sort of pass that, it's law. but it's different than it used to be. >> what did it used to be? [voice over p.a. system]: anesthesia and respiratory therapy, stat to room 738. >> we are in a hospital. >> yeah, and even if you were deaf, you could hear that. >> go ahead. >> there used

they pay a large part of that. there's a specific part of the reimbursement rate to hospitals that cover for uncompensated care. so we've got to fix the medicare system and strengthen it. it needs to be expanded and needs to be stronger benefits under medicare. it doesn't cover enough now. so i agree with you. >> but the bill is cutting reimbursement to medicare. >> we're not going to allow the -- we are not going to cut any benefits under the medicare system. we're going to expand medicare. i can tell you that. we're not going to cut benefits under medicare. i'm not going to vote to cut benefits under medicare. . whether you would agree that it is not right, it is not the right thing to do for american citizens to be asked to pay for the health care and the health care insurance of people here illegally. t you agree with me on that? >> i answered that before. i agree with that. >> the question on the side of the room. >> you stand as a champion for small business. >> have respect for the questioner. >> in section

they pay a large part of that. there's a specific part of the reimbursement rate to hospitals that cover for uncompensated care. so we've got to fix the medicare system and strengthen it. it needs to be expanded and needs to be stronger benefits under medicare. it doesn't cover enough now. so i agree with you. >> but the bill is cutting reimbursement to medicare. >> we're not going to allow the -- we are not going to cut any benefits under the medicare system. we're going to expand medicare. i can tell you that. we're not going to cut benefits under medicare. i'm not going to vote to cut benefits under medicare. . i appreciate the banter. you say you advocate coverage for every person in america. i would like to clarify this. i live like to know whether not when you say you want all persons to the cover, are you covering people that are here illegally or only the american citizens? that is the question i want to ask, whether you agree that it is not right for american citizens to be asked to pay for the health care

the first 60 days you are in the hospital, you pay the first $1,060. medicare pays the rest. if you are in for another 30 days after that, there is a copayment of $267 per day. beyond that $9, it gets more expensive. the best book of seniors have some type of supplemental insurance. -- the best part have supplemental insurance. -- the vast part. it tends to be about $3 or $4 per month for the supplemental insurance. -- $300 or $400 per month. the next for you about is medicare advantage. it is a private medicare plan to provide different benefits that usually do not have these gaps. host: why is there a deductible , $1,000.68? jake -- $1,0068. guest: it is not intended to cover every dollar. is more like if you hit a certain threshold it will cover these expenses. lower income people have medicaid instead. their 7 million seniors who have dual coverage. medicaid also provides supplemental coverage. so, the issue is that for people who are notpo poor, this should cover some of the cost. the idea was to make sure that the beneficiary has some sense of sharing the costs. and als

will you have to pay to commute? are you going to have to pay for day care. does it push you into a higher tax bracket? you're going to have to work five or six hours just to pay equipment. think of how it's going to impact your quality of life. when you look for moonlighting positions are we talking bar tending or restaurant hostess? >> for somebody younger, it could be a bar, a restaurant. somebody who is an i.t. person helps people set up home computer audio equipment in their home. >> let's talk about when you take on the second job and look at the time you put into it. you're saying put a time limit on yourself and set goals. put a limit on that, right? >> absolutely. whether it's to pay down a credit card or change careers, think what is the goal for the amount of time i'm spending on it. i'm going to do it for three or four or five months. it takes a personal toll, working two jobs. >> you have to think what time am i going to have with my family or myself. you read about people working two ten hour shifts. finally, if you take a second job or if you l

we are having the government pay things we should be paying ourselves.are too cheap or lazy to pay it ourselves. 75 years people didn't have this and life went on perfectly fine, they didn't have health insurance, or if they could, they did. it's simply welfare. and the second point i would like to ask about is some years back when i started getting prescriptions for blood pressure and stuff like that, i would try to take my pill bottles back and have them refilled and my pharmacist told me that was illegal. congress had passed a law that you have to have new bottles to get your prescription filled. this is probably costing consumers tens of millions of dollars because you have to get new pill bottles. is this a law passed by congress to benefit pill bottle manufacturers? . host: it was not until tuesday evening that the elite members were summoned for his final hours. it was a week ago sunday on a hot sunday, and last week he was driven around the town by his son and daughter. that story is available online at bostom.com. houston, texas, you get the las

i learned that medicare pays about thank you for % of hospital costs and medicaid pays 84% of hospital costs, and i have learned this from a reputable source, my brother, a chief administrative officer of a large hospital groups. he also explains to me, when i communicated with him, that private insurers, his hospital collects about 135% of cost and private insurers, and that mix up the difference. so if public options are out there, will they pay for their way, or will they be underfunded, like medicare and medicaid? thank you. >> great question. anyone who was ever gotten a bill from hospital knows that this is a complicated area. here's the short answer. i believe that medicare should -- medicare and medicaid should not be attending savings just by squeezing providers. in some cases, we should change the delivery system so providers have a better incentive to provide smarter care, right, so they are treating the illness instead of just how many tests are done or how many mris are done or what have you. let's pay for, are you curing the patient? that is different from simply say, you

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payings 20ds one way, paying more for the bags than the ticket. >> costs more in cases to get your bags from point a to b than your physical body. yeah, american made news a couple days ago. raised their first checked bag fee from $50 to $20, second froms 25ds to $30. $50 each way for checked bags, but all of the major airlines have done that. delta, continental, done that as well. you save the $5 if you check your bags through online. checking in for your flight and pay online, you avoid the $5 hike as opposed to once you get to the airport. >> fedex yourself. anyway, you say there's a new fee. all about, for example, i like the aisle, because i usually travel with my daughter and need to get out quickly. you say making that choice will cost you? >> indeed. us airways calls them choice seats. reserve a couple of strategically placed aisle or window seats towards the front of the plane and it will cost you an extra $5 ors 15ds per seat, if that's what you want. the united folks call it the united economy plus seating. extra six inches of leg room but it comes with a price. another occas

the e-mails are flooding in on the question about the pay czar and aig's pay package. the thing is that $7 million is an insane amount of money. of i would love to make 1/7 of that, no doubt. a lot of people mailing in saying i would do the job for a million dollars, trying to get the best possible guy so we all get our taxpayer money back, getting half what the industry standard is right now. i still don't know how you reconcile this thing and attract someone great if you're not going to pay what the going rate is. >> you're right. it's a going issue here. and the fact that a lot of these institutions, specifically aig have taken taxpayer money. so is this really bad catch- 22 position. you need to attract these people, but a huge political backlash against you. so it's a real mess. >> maybe the problem with government involvement. that is it for "the call." i'm melissa francis. >> this is cnbc.com news now. >> they're citing his cooperation as an informant involving the tax evasion case against the bank. a warn has been issued to johnson & johnson drug development un

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paying in the private sector. the question is, will there be private sector plans to compete with the government-subsidized plant after a few years? smack the cbo, which was the group that analyzes what things cost, and was really the group that stopped this plan in its steps about two or three weeks ago, the one that says all my god, this costs a lot, etc. they took a look at that and they said actually if the plan works the way we envision it to, that more private companies would actually be offering and pick up more business. >> mike: you're one of few people who believe that will happen that more private businesses will first under the plan. >> that's one of the reasons why you don't go straight into the exchange area that's one reason i if you belong with a large employer and you get a choice right now, you're going to stay there. the only difference will be for the employee who currently is offered insurance or may large employer and chooses not to take it and carries no health insurance at all. sometimes th