but david guilmette of towers perrin says it takes a long-term corporate focus to see those savings. >> there are probably a half dozen serious conditions that drive the majority of healthcare spending. and most of those conditions can be impacted by behavioral changes. in fact almost 50% of healthcare costs can be impacted by changes in individual behaviors. whether it's exercise, eating right, knowing your numbers cholestorol levels, blood pressure, done consistently across a large population of people can really have a positive impact over time. >> reporter: of course, you can encourage employees to go to the gym. even buy them a gym membership. that doesn't mean they'll use it. but insurance discounts, cash rewards and competitive spirit, can help. american diabetes association employee chad whittaker says he lost 30 pounds, thanks in part to the big-carrot-little stick approach of virgin healthmiles. >> i think its great because it keeps you in the mood to get up and get moving. all of us. we try to exercise, but are there some nights where you just don't want to do it. but if y

that affordabili gap, is wide d growing, says david guilmette of research fi towers perrin. >> and that's st the cost to paicipate in the program. there's an additional co burden fm having the benefit not be arich as it was before; so higher levels of co-ps. higher lels of insurance and deductibles. so not onlare you paying more to buy the coverage, b you're paying more each time you e the service. >>eporter: the kaiser study found just about allarge companies pride health insurae. and that's stayed steady thrgh the years. but small businesses, compies with nine woers or less, have steadily dropped coverage. ly half of those firms now offer health benefit that tre has hit home with marcus de souza and his fami. >>o, it's tough news for us, you know? but i understand why they hato do it. they had to do somethi. and ratherhan compromise the benefits to the actual employees, the spouses and families got affected. >> reporter: and latm struggles, balcing the health of her workfor, against the health of r company's bottom line. >> that was like, litelly, cutting out a piece my heart, that d, w

robert perrin in "the new york times" today reports that the final senate bill, the version majority leader harry reid will cobble together from the health committee bill and the finance committee bill, will not include a public option according to unnamed senior democratic senate aides. responding to the story, a spokesman for senator reid said any such decision would prejudice tomorrow's outcome for the public option. okay. but will it be in the final senate version? reid's spokesman says, quote, we don't know. let's bring in dr. howard dean, former governor of vermont and chairman of the democratic party, author of "howard dean's prescription for real health care reform." thanks for joining us tonight, doctor. >> thanks, lawrence. >> governor dean, is there any reason to think the public option really has a shot this week in the senate? you have unnamed senate sources saying it will not be in the final bill, and then the best senator reid's spokesman can come up with is "i don't know" as to whether it will be in the final bill. what's your guess here? >> look, this is a bill that

. >> our name is binge perrine. i live here in montana. last year i collapsed because of congenital heart problems and i have no insurance and no company will insure me. my friends have held bake sales and benefits, but my wife and i still owe over $100,000 in medical bills. none of this debt would have piled if i had the option of buying into the public option plan. private insurance companies need competition. they profit by denying care to people like me. senator baucus oppose giving families like mine the choice, i have to ask who's side are you on? >> as the focus on health care continues, c-span's health care hub is a key resource. you can find all the recent congressional hearings and events, speeches by the president and town hall meetings, also you'll find ads, links and your health care comments via twitter. the health care hub at c-span.org slash health care. >> now former white house homeland security adviser frances townsend and her perspective on homeland defense. from the heritage foundation here in washington, d.c., it's 50

they could see the towers perrin the visibility was fine.system in the world trade center. they were waiting for the sprinklers, not knowing what was calling the fire. of course, it was more than any sprinkler system could have dealt with. steve, as we look across the street -- steve: as we look across the street at some of the volunteers reading the many names -- and as we mentioned, we are running the names of the victims on the bottom of the screen today. when we were watching the videotape of that date eight years ago, you are both talking about, however member on 9/11, 9/12 how there were so many rumors? in the early reporting, they were trying to figure out how many people could possibly be in the world trade center at the moment the airplane hit. there were some very high estimates. >> we were hearing 25,000. after they fell, we were hearing stories that people had walked away from the building. we have to look through all that stuff. we have to be careful about what we reported that date. >> but the scope of the disaster was absolute

perrin shows might of missiles days before nuclear plant show band.ran began to test fire missiles yesterday and starting dates of war games before the confrontation with powers over a previously undisclosed secret nuclear facility. on thursday, western officials will demand iran allowed inspectors access. intelligence agencies estimate the plant is designed to house 3000 centrifuges, far too few to be used for far energy production but enough to produce about one bomb's worth of material in a year. "the washington post." iran test missiles on the eve of talks. u.s. considers severe sanctions and leaves the door open for diplomacy. the headline this morning in "the washington post." a little bit about what they write this morning. missile firings are not directly related to iran's nuclear weapons program and the test apparently were planned before friday's disclosure by president obama and european leaders feared that tehrani is what it said was a military drill in the central iranian desert to underscore its rejection of international efforts to halt

perrin shows might of missiles days before nuclear plant show band. iran began to test fire missiles yesterday and starting dates of war games before the confrontation with powers over a previously undisclosed secret nuclear facility. on thursday, western officials will demand iran allowed inspectors access. intelligence agencies estimate the plant is designed to house 3000 centrifuges, far too few to be used for far energy production but enough to produce about one bomb's worth of material in a year. "the washington post." iran test missiles on the eve of talks. u.s. considers severe sanctions and leaves the door open for diplomacy. the headline this morning in "the washington post." a little bit about what they write this morning. missile firings are not directly related to iran's nuclear weapons program and the test apparently were planned before friday's disclosure by president obama and european leaders feared that tehrani is what it said was a military drill in the central iranian desert to underscore its rejection of international efforts to ha