soyou know, we have a really strong plan and we get ba to profitabity, we'll continue to improve our balance sheet. >> mr. mulally, thank you so much for joing me. >> you're welce, diane. thank u. >> suzanne: myuest has been ford ceo alan mulally. >> suzanne: ading senate democrats are putting the brks on health care reform sayi they will not voten a bill before the augusrecess. senate majoritleader harry id says a vote in his chambe won't co until the fall. it's blow to president obama whwanted the house and senate to pass bis in the next week and get a final measure to h desk by the end the year. speaki in cleveland today, the president acknowledgedhe senate won't me his deadline. t he says that's okay and wants lawmakers to kp moving forward spite the delay. >> paul: n let's take a look at some stocks in the news tonight. >> paul: and tse are the stocks. >> suzanne: 's the middle of mmer. but storesre already pulling out all the stops to boo their back to school sales. is considered a major test for consumer snding, and an early edictor for the holiday season. as eka miller explai

but as you kw, you cannot cost cut your way to profitabity. so the challenge for g. m. gng forward is to sel vehicles, and that what it nds to do to survi. >> susie: so i'm interviewing chs henderson tomorrow, the c.e.o. of genera motors, as you know what do you thinis the next big test for hendeon? >> ihink e test f then der on andg. m.is product. and nay need to sell product. and it not just selling product, it's conncing nsumers that they hav qualy products. one of the things that has dogged g. m. forheast 20 or 30 ars is tha they don't have good quality pducts. backn the late 70s, early 80s, there were some quality issues with lot of th vehicles they were producing. actuly, in the pastfive or six years th've been turning out some really goo products. the problem is theytill have that quali reputation. they've not overcomehat with kurms, and that is something they really need sell to the american publi >> sus: sounds like a lot of work to done. thank you so much,iane. diane estabok joining us from chicago. >> paul: wall stet opened narrowly mixed with the do losing 1

we areot profitab but.... >> rose: you have cash flow. >> yeah. >> rose: great toeet you. thank you for cing. >> you as well. thanksery much. >> re: pleasure. captioning sponsored by rose communication captioned by media acce group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

exactly, so that the compan could deteine more about which accounts were not profitab or marginally pfitableh that new syem, he was able, and e other executives, to intify the accounts that they wanted to g rid of. and over theourse of a very few years, they shed eight million members. >> moyers: eig million policy lders? >> eight milon people-- men, women, and children, yes. me of them were shed by intention. some, i'm sure, probably wked cause the... or left for whatever othereason, but they inteionally had this program to purgehese accounts. eight million fewer peop were enrolledn aetna's plans. many othem undoubtedly joined the nks of the uninsured, because their employerhad been purged. >> moyers: swhat happened to tna's stock? >> went , and it has... >> moyers: and so diron's... >> and... >> moyers: ...mpensation, righ >> ron's cpensation and his stock on wall street. >> and so i thk, in the context of thinking abt a governmentlan, what we say is, let's identify t problem we're trying to lve. let's work collaborative with physicians, hospitals, a other healthare professionals, and make