. >> rick smith. >> hi, rick smith. ken you have references several initiatives around the cluster of chronic conditions that you identified as significant cost drivers. can you speak a little bit to what happens to utization and outcomes as these interventions take place and, you know, how does care change and what is that ultimate will add up to? >> it's a good question. you can look at the -- look at the prevalence data in terms of how we're treating patients with cardiovascular risk factors and the important questions, what are we getting from it? is it worth it? i referenced david's work on in this and others, i think on balance the more aggressive of treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease is worth it. we're getting improvement in longevity, improvements in the quality of life, that those are investments that not only are clinically driven but generating better outcomes, so that those are sort of parsing my prevalence increases into two components, things that are good increases, things that we want, you

. >> rick smith. >> hi, rick smith. ken you have references several initiatives around the cluster of chronic conditions that you identified as significant cost drivers. can you speak a little bit to what happens to utization and outcomes as these interventions take place and, you know, how does care change and what is that ultimate will add up to? >> it's a good question. you can look at the -- look at the prevalence data in terms of how we're treating patients with cardiovascular risk factors and the important questions, what are we getting from it? is it worth it? i referenced david's work on in this and others, i think on balance the more aggressive of treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease is worth it. we're getting improvement in longevity, improvements in the quality of life, that those are investments that not only are clinically driven but generating better outcomes, so that those are sort of parsing my prevalence increases into two components, things that are good increases, things that we want, you

rick killed wasn't his mother. it was her close confidant gela. smithin the story of davidito under the pseudonym sue. he arranged to meet her early on the evening of january the 8th planning to force her to reveal his mother's whereabouts. >> i'm not trained in torture methods, which is why i'm going to have to make do. i don't know how to [ muted ] do this. i don't want to [ muted ] do this. >> as rick drove to his death, he called his wife, 1,500 miles away in tacoma, one last time. >> he said, the hardest thing about it is that as she was dying, he said, she didn't understand what she had done. and i'm like, who? like, she didn't get it. these people don't get it. he says, i wasn't expecting that answer. i don't understand how they cannot see what they have done. >> despite the savagery of the murder, there was no evidence of torture. and it's not clear whether angela told rick where his mother was. nor is it clear whether he set off across the desert to hunt down his mother or see his wife. or simply find a quiet place to die. >> it's pretty extrao

rick santelli in chicago with a special guest. shed some slight on jobs in this country. >> i'd like to welcome peter maurici, president of smith school what you wrote before and after the last jobs report, and you really framed an issue that is near and dear to my heart. you said four-fifths of the unemployment in this cycle post-crisis is due to the falling labor force participation rate. can you give us more detail and expound upon that, sir. >> sure. the unemployment rate is computed by taking those folks that don't have a job but are looking and dividing it by those who have a job plus those who don't have a job and are looking. it doesn't include those who have dropped out of the labor force. the adult participation rate has dropped so much since october of 2009, if we had the same rate now, if as many or a portion of adults were looking for work now, that unemployment rate would be about 9.7%. so about 80% of the reduction has simply been from fewer adults essentially becoming discouraged and leaving the labor force all together. >> let me play devil's advocate. when i bump into people who want to discuss this, they are either