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still ahead, could switzerland's health care be a model for america? >> glor: later this month, congress will begin negotiations to merge the house and senate versions of health care reform into one bill. a glimpse of what the u.s. health care system of the future might look like can be seen right now in switzerland. richard roth has more. >> reporter: picturesque and prosperous, this alpine country in the heart of europe is almost 8 million people known for their love of chocolate almost as much as their love of capitalism. peaceful switzerland hasn't fought a war in almost two centuries, but it was a really battle here reforming health care. >> it was controversial. it is still controversial. >> reporter: the law finally approved in the 1994 national referendum guaranteed health care for everyone by requiring everyone to have insurance. it amounted to a law recognizing health care as a human right, says former swiss president ruth dreyfuss. >> everybody has really the right to receive the medical care they need from birth to the death. >> reporter: t

taxpayers that had been hiding assets in switzerland. it has sent a ripple across the world, calling into question bank secrecy. that process is all very public. the agreement is public. there is a procedure where they are notifying it tell holders the the opportunity to appeal comes to us and the mall -- milestones are on track. the real target is by next august those will be in the u.s. government again. >> when you are doing this, when people get those names, are you planning to do another process similar to what you have done with the people that came forward voluntarily? working with them to find others and see if there are other accounts elsewhere? shaking the tree to find this money hiding overseas? >> clearly, the irs has finite resources. i mentioned that before with the tax repair strategy. preparing the case, working with a community that has 1 million people to help us do our job, that makes sense. in this case if we can find financial institutions, that is an efficient use of resources. as the data comes over, we will be loo

taxpayers and then paying the right amount of taxes, not interested switzerland or another country. our voluntary disclosure process i talked about where 15,000 people came in -- we had people come in from every continent except antarctica and 60 different countries. generally the places were attractive for people to hide money are places that have bakes' secrecy laws -- bank secrecy laws and 0 or no taxes, so we anecdotally have heard that as we focus of switzerland and other places, a lot of money has been leaving europe and moving into asia, latin america. we are aware of those flows. we have a lot of cooperation that law enforcement agencies and other tax administrators, and we're getting better at following the flow of money. >> i want to ask you about something i still get a lot of e-mail about, and i think it is something people care about. this past year youç put out a proposal to employers for how to w3çallocateç as a fringeç ber taxw3çç purposesççxd and thd on congress tot( actually pass çlegislation to simplifyr>ç , to remove cellphone as a fringe benefit so em

microsoft co-founder bill gates made the announcement today at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. >> today we're announcing a commitment over this next decade which we think of as a decade of vaccines having incredible impact. we're announcing that we'll spend over $10 billion on vaccines. that will help invent new vaccines, that will help get some new vaccines out, that will help increase the coverage. >> sreenivasan: the goal is to make sure 90% of the children in poor nations are immunized. for the record, the bill and melinda gates foundation is a newshour underwriter. a jury in wichita, kansas, has convicted an abortion opponent of murder for killing an abortion provider last may. the panel deliberated just 37 minutes today before returning the verdict against scott roeder.

the other thing about icann that's unique is we have to be like switzerland, okay? so there's cyber defense and offense. we have nothing to do with offense anywhere, okay? we can focus only on defense, and we have to remain as neutral as switzerland because we have 240 countries around the world that we deal with and territories. everything from u.s. to all the european partners to syria, iran, north korea, i mean, everyone has some presence on the internet, and their relationship for their country code domains is with with icann. so we effectively work with everyone in the world. so we have to stay very neutral and focus on supporting security of the domain name system through and with our partners. >> host: so it's a tricky game we have to play of staying in the middle. >> host: christopher rhoads. >> host: the computer viruses and other types of computer attacks, of course, are nothing new. they've existed since the beginning of the internet the, but it seems like they are getting more sophisticated by the minute and just the power of these things growing exponen

she told me how they met and how they went to switzerland.e spent quite a bit of time stonewalling my questions. it was very difficult to get information out of her. quite frequently, she would say that she did not want to talk about that. there was very little information on their relationship. she was much happier, which is characteristic of people that were communist, but she still loved to talk about politics. >> the next marriage was 1950. who was that too? >> i should add that we did spend a lot of time talking about her life after she and arthur koestler parted. she was stranded when he got out. this was the beginning of the war. he helped her a lot, which he acknowledged. the germans were in full occupation of france. >> the second marriage, 1950. >> the strikingly beautiful identical twin of a debutante in england. they met through a common friend. that friend and a couple of friends of his were living in an apartment owned by someone with an unusual name. >> you talked to her sister? >> i talked to her sister over a number of years.

the other thing about us is unique is that we have to be like switzerland. we have nothing to do with offense anywhere. we focus only on defense, and we have to remain as neutral as switzerland. we have 240 countries around the world that we deal with, and territories, everything from the u.s. to syria, iran, north korea. everyone has some presence on the internet, and their relationship for their country is with icann. we have to stay very neutral and focus on security of the domain name system through and with our partners. it is a tricky game we have to play of staying in the middle. >> there are computer viruses and other types of computer attacks which are nothing new. they have existed since the beginning of the internet. it seems like they are getting more sophisticated and growing exponentially. what is your current assessment of the state of where things are right now in terms of the level of cyber illegal activity attacks, and the ability of the good guys to fight against that? obviously it is an up and down situation, but what is your sense of the

for the past few months... the bank has been helping new clients shift funds out of switzerland and in to singapore. >>flavel: yes, its a trend but actually the more lucrative part for any private bank is to bank asian high networth wealth that is either booked outside of asia or being created in asia today >>reporter: like its competitors, standard chartered struggles to find enough experienced asian bankers to meet its staffing targets. many banks here laid off junior staff after too many asian clients lost enormous sums during the crisis. in fact, an increasing number of asian clients are now turning to independent wealth managers for a more personalized service. they too see huge upside for private wealth management in singapore a place where they say clients can feel safe. >>hui: i think its protection of privacy but not confidentiality in sense of hiding or illegal coverage ofsome peoples assets not declared to certain governments. >>peterson: singapores appeal as a financial hub is well known. its english speaking, stable politically and strategically located. add to that very f

>> he is enjoying his reward as vice-chairman of the union bank of switzerland. he is still a very powerful person in texas politics. >> if you go back to that time, he did not do this in a vacuum. did that go through that conference? -- at conference? >> it had been discussed and it failed. it was a separate bill and it had not gone through. what phil gramm did was to attack it on to an appropriations bill on december 15, 2000. everyone was wanting to go home for christmas. clinton signed it and tack it onto an 11,000 page bill. how many people actually read it? there is a speech by gramm introducing the bill. i went to your excellent organization to get the tape and your researchers tried to find the tape and said that there was no tape because he did not actually give that speech. it was inserted into the record afterwards. this momentous piece of legislation wasn't even spoken in the senate. >> for the record, this is the first time i knew you came to our organization. go back to the george bush clip. that was at george washington university? >> actually, he

it is my understanding america is the most racist nation on earth and countries like france and switzerlandre all the sophisticated people and they are above such things. is that not right? >> greg: it is not right. ail. >> allen, when did you short schilling for moveon.org. >> since the check cleared last week. i don't need sec, man, just cash. -- i don't need sex man, just cash. >> you mentiond that after franken denied leiberman's request for an additional moment to finish his remarks, senator john mccain stood up for his his colleague but you said it was the next day. it was right then. >> greg: i was reading the prompter. so whoever three-point put next day, pack up your things in a box and leave. >> it wasn't me. >> bill, you're outta here! >> all i did was get the cat birthday photo today. that is really it. came there about an hour ago. >> and you showed that clip of mccain saying this is the first time he had seen a member a minute -- denied a minute or two to finish their remarks. >> minnesota mark gaiten asked for unanimous consent to grant him 30 seconds or more to finish his re

because all of a sudden everybody knew we in innovation and i was invited to make films in london and switzerland and the animation film director but the people and prague could add travel and at -- at all and those who could not go back i had a pass for and i could fly and i was confused because i would see in london tomatoes then i would go to prague and sa can i have a pound of tomatoes and nobody would have those in april. it was creating problems and i remember coming to the bar in is iraq is like the wild west for somebody said i am buying drinks for everybody not just that guy over there. you may be? yes, i mean you why you call me that? because you have a czechoslovakia passport. i said i am an artist. >> you serve the government over there. i did not know what to say. i said let's step outside because that is what they say in the movies. [laughter] and a guy was very big and he was a dentist waiting for citizenship and he was afraid that if he stepped outside he would get in trouble and would not get citizenship. and some people said he is not bad but i am just saying it was creating mor

don't speed in switzerland.got caught speeding slapped with a big ticket, $290,000 for speeding. the fine is a new record, new swiss record. before you feel sorry to the driver he's supposedly worth more than 20 million dollars the court based the fine on his wealth. the repeat offender speeder was going 85 in a 50 mile hour zone and he was driving what else, a red ferrari. he to keep that >> how are you at heights? the world's tallest building just opened in dubai. naturally two people decided to jump off. how do you say geronimo in arabic? >> coming from a northern direction at about 10 knots. >> greta: those jumps broke the world record with the highest base jump, ever. >> angelina jolie gets dumped. no, not by brad but the high end clothing line st. john. the ceo says she over shadows the bran. the cea adds we wanted to make a break from actresses, stay way from blondes. the solution a red head taking over as the face of the company. >> finally, the white house has not said when the president will deliver th

the other thing about icann is we have to be like switzerland. we have nothing to do with offense anywhere. we can focus on defense and remain as neutral as switzerland because we have 24 on 0 countries around the world, everything from u.s. to all the european partners to syria, iran, north korea, everyone has some presence on the internet and their relationship for their country code domains is with icann so we work with everyone in the world. we have to stay neutral and we have to focus on security of the domain name system through and with our partners. it's a tricky game we have to play in staying in the middle. >> the computer viruses and other types of computer attacks are nothing new and have existed since the beginning of the internet but seems they are getting more sophisticated by the minute and just the power of these things going. what's your assessment of the state of where things are right now in terms of the level of this cyber activity, illegal activity, attacks and the ability of the good guys to fight against that? obvious it's

he fled the united states before sentencing, is currently in switzerland under house arrest.eimer, was on this show in 2003. here's what she had to say then about polanski and his possible jail time. watch. in retrospect, would you have been upset at the plea bargain to time served? roman polanski goes free after 45 days? >> everyone was really comfortable with that. that's what we wanted. >> larry: your mother was happy with it? >> oh, yes. i never even asked for him to be put in jail. >> larry: your father was happy about it? >> i don't know about that. >> larry: you dant talk to him about it? >> no, and the publicity was so traumatic and so horrible that his punishment was secondary to just getting this whole thing to stop. >> larry: others will join us later. we begin with lawrence silver. larry's the attorney for samantha geimer, polanski's rape victim. they want the case against roman polanski dismissed. what happened in court today? >> what happened today was that polanski asked, consistent with what the court of appeal had suggested in their december decision, that he

then you have countries like china, switzerland, israel, they all have their own organizations. they all are asking for things to be flown into the airport. those things are getting to the airport as far as we can tell. there was huge boxes of all sorts of different supplies. at that point there's no single person who sort of say, okay, china's stuff is over here. israel's stuff is over here. let's give that to these folks. that part of the process is breaking down. some of it is because it's still a bit chaotic eight, nine days after the earthquake. that's dr. sanjay gupta in port-au-prince. we swing to ft. lauderdale, florida. soledad o'brien is back home, cnn anchor and special correspondent reporter. she's followed the journey of orphans from haiti to miami. there she is. what's the situation there, soledad? >> reporter: well, i got to tell you, you have never seen happier parents who just moments ago saw their adopted children come off that airplane. it's been quite a voyage. what an amazing reunion. i think the parents were tense because it was unclear if they were going t

he had to flee nazi controlled europe where he was teaching in switzerland. he had to flee even julie not only because he was jewish but what he was teaching was not exactly in conformity with the nazi economic program. ludwig von mises talked about the division of labor and how the markets are the best example of human cooperation across borders and what wondrous thing is to take resources from all over the place and we can create well. what a wonderful thing this is. not exactly what the nazi party wants to here. they destroyed his papers and library. he fled to the united states where he arrived in 1940 almost empty-handed. not speaking a word of english and no paid university position at a time when every competent -- every marxist could find unemployment. there's ludwig von mises, one of the best economic geniuses of all time and yet he went on to be as productive than ever. is great treatise human action in 1949 is a fantastic best seller even though it is 900 pages. ludwig von mises was an extraordinary genius whose work is still being studied and reme

crosoft co-founder bill gate made the announcement today thworld economic forum in davo switzerland. today we're announcing a commitment or this next decade wch we think of as a decadef vaccines having credible impact. we're announci that we'll end over $10 billion on vaccines. that will helpnvent new vaccines, that wilhelp get some new vaccineout, that will help incrse the covera. >> sreenivasan: the goal ito make sure 90% of the childrein or nations are immunized. for threcord, the bill and melinda gates foundation ia newsur underwriter. jury in wichita, kansas, has convted an abortion opponent of murder for killing aborti provider last may. the pal deliberated just 37 minutetoday before returning the verdict against scot roed. he admitted gunnindown dr. georgeiller inside a church in wichita last may. he faces a mandatory life sentence. tiller was one othe only doctors in the u. performing late-term abortions. those are some of the day'main stories. i'll be back at thend of the ogram with a preview of what you'll find tonighon the newshour web site. but for now, back to judy. >> w

the annual event convened in davos, switzerland and the president of barclays bank in britain warnedinst measures that force downsizing. >> i've seen no evidence, i've seen no academic study, i've seen no analysis that suggests that shrinking banks or making all banks smaller or more narrow is the answer. >> sreenivasan: but french president nicolas sarkozy attacked the behavior of major banks, in his keynote address. he said it's "morally indefensible" when companies destroy jobs and wealth, but make huge profits. >> ( translated ): the job of a bank is not to speculate. it is to analyze credit risks, it is to assess the capacity of borrowers to repay their loans >> sreenivasan: in recent days, wall street took a dive after president obama proposed curbs on bank investing and on bank size. today, the market finished with a gain. the dow jones industrial average added nearly 42 points to close at 10,236. the nasdaq rose more than 17 points to close at 2,221. the government of yemen is pledging to carry out economic and political reforms. the promise came at an international conferenc

he's gone to-- he's enjoying his reward as vice chairman of the union bank of switzerland. he's still very powerful in texas politics i believe. >> but if you go back to that time period in the year 2000, september, he didn't do this in a vacuum. that was attached to an appropriations bill. did that go through at conference, had it ever been discussed in the house of representatives? do you know? >> well, it had been discussed, in fact, and had failed. they tried to introduce that commodity features -- the commodity features modernization act as a separate bill and it hadn't gone through, it had failed. so what they then did, what gramm did, with i'm sure plenty of willing assistance, was to take it onto an appropriations bill and this is december 15th, 2000. you know, everyone's wanting to go home for christmas. bill clinton was about to leave office, so clinton signed it and there was its 252 pages tacked onto an 11,000 page bill. so how many people do you think actually read it. i mean gramm, if you look at the congressional record, there's a speech by gramm introducing

me and animation and i was invited to make series in london and i was invited to make series in switzerlandfor television. i was becoming like well-known animation film director. the problem was that people in prague can travel at all and people outside who immigrated couldn't go back. all of sudden i was one of the people who could fly. i had this passport and i could fly. i remember i was confused because i would see in london tomatoes, and i would be to prague and i would go to the store and say and i have a pound of tomatoes? and it was like april. it was creating problems and people said i remember coming to the bar and zÜrich and there was in the wild western movie that somebody said, i buy transfer everybody. just not for that guy over there. and i could feel and you mean me? he said yes, i mean you. i said why would you call me that? he said because you have a check passport. a czechoslovakian passport. i said but i am an artist that he said but you are serving the government over there. so then i did know what to say that i said let's step outside. because like i said in the movies

. >> over the weekend, the congressional delegation attended a forum in switzerland to discuss the global implications of the obama administration's legislative agenda on health care, energy, the environment, and financial regulation. this is about an hour. >> welcome, everybody. >> our task is to try to get a global perspective to the legislative agenda and the united states. this is only panel specifically focused on legislative agenda in any one country, so all the talk about change, it is changing. there is still something important about what happens to the united states and congress. when i lived in europe, europeans always used to ask, when do i get to vote in an american in elections? i used to say, that is fine with me. there are a number who might have a word or two to say about that. i do not imagine that will happen anytime soon, but did these you can vote on this panel. the framers would they invented the u.s. government envisioned the united states congress as the first branch of government, the places where all the issues and pressures and the man decided to come together a

this is about 45 minutes, from davos, switzerland. >> mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, your excellencies we all welcome you to this very special, very important, crucial session on haiti. all of us in this room remain deeply saddened by the scale and scope that has ravaged haiti. the scope of the destruction. disasters of this magnitude serve as a harsh reminder of how fragile life can sometimes be. but it is also during these moments that we are reminded of the common humanity which we all share. we decided to convene this special session immediately following the earthquake as the scale and scope became really clear of the devastation. in speaking with president clinton, he and i immediately agreed that a joint effort of the clinton global initiative, the world economic forum, together with the united nations, should be a powerful partnership to effected meaningful change. let me be clear. we are not here to try and coordinate and address issues related to the short-term disaster, relief and recovery. there are many agencies already do

>> you are having a serious of bilateral meetings with switzerland. are you asking with switzerland the same level of commitment that you're asking to the member states of the european union? are you trying to get bilateral movement beside what you get from the european union? thank you. >> yes. thank you for your question. ! what i think i tried to explain this yesterday when i spoke to you. this whole topic of body scanners was not intended to be a specific topic in this council. and it's not -- it will be the transport. we also have to remember that we're awaiting a report of several reports from the commission on this subject, on the subject of the actual efficacy of the effectiveness of the body scanners, possible health implications, health impact, and the whole issue of privacy. flying with the rules of privacy, which exist in the european union. we will await those reports from the commission. we will look at them as soon as they come in. that is basically our approach. and the eu will take a view on that when we have the information at our fi

>> you are having a serious of bilateral meetings with switzerland. are you asking with switzerland the same level of commitment that you're asking to the member states of the european union? are you trying to get bilateral movement beside what you get from the european union? thank you. >> yes. thank you for your question. ! what i think i tried to explain this yesterday when i spoke to you. this whole topic of body scanners was not intended to be a specific topic in this council. and it's not -- it will be the transport. we also have to remember that we're awaiting a report of several reports from the commission on this subject, on the subject of the actual efficacy of the effectiveness of the body scanners, possible health implications, health impact, and the whole issue of privacy. flying with the rules of privacy, which exist in the european union. we will await those reports from the commission. we will look at them as soon as they come in. that is basically our approach. and the eu will take a view on that when we have the information at our fi

he spoke at the world economic forum in switzerland. his comments along with others at the meeting, about 45 minutes. >> mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, your excellencecies, i welcome you to this very special, very important, crucial session on haiti. all of us in this room remain deeply saddened by the scale and scope that has ravaged haiti. the scope of the destruction. disasters of this magnitude serve as a harsh reminder of how fragile life can sometimes be. but it is also during these moments that we are reminded of the common humanity which we all share. we decided to convene this special session immediately following the earthquake as the scale and scope became really clear of the devastation. in speaking with president clinton, he and i immediately agreed that a joint effort of the clinton global initiative, the world economic forum, together with the united nations should be a powerful partnership to effect meaningful change. let me be clear. we are not here to try and to coordinate issues related to the short-term disaste

let me point out that mesis had to flee the nazi control europe where he had been teaching in switzerland for a while and he had to flee eventually not only because he was jewish but what he was teaching was not exactly in conformity with fought nazi economic program. mesis was talking of the international division of labor and how the market is the best example of him in cooperation across borders and wondrous thing it is somehow we can take resources from all over the place and without any central direction create wealth and what an amazing thing this is. it's not exactly what the nazi party wants to hear. so the distressed his paper and library. he fled to the united states where he arrived in 1940 almost empty-handed not speaking a word of english and with no paid university position at a time every semi content, every boob and marxist could find employment, there is mesis, one of the great economic geniuses of all time, and get he went on to be as productive if not more productive than ever. his great treat this connection, 1949 is a fantastic best seller even though it is 900 pages.

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clinton is followed by a panel of global business leaders from the world economic forum in switzerland. this is about 46 minutes. >> mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, your excellencies, i welcome all you to this very special, very important crucial session on haiti. all of us in this room remain deeply saddened by the jail and scope that has ravadged haiti. the scope of destruction. this magnitude serves as a harsh reminder of how fragile life can sometimes be. but it is also during these moments that we are reminded of the common humanity which we all share. we decided to convene this special session immediately following the eerttedsquake as the scale and scope became really clear of the devastation. in speaking with president clinton, he and i immediately agreed that a joint effort of the clinton global initiative, the world economic forum, together with the united nations, should be a powerful partnership to effect meaningful change. let me be clear. we are not here to try and to coordinate and to address issues related to the short -term disaster relief and recovery. there are

sweden defeated switzerland. al koken talks about the prospects. all doing well.hey seem to be all play both ends. ice. >> joe: mike green giving ground away from travis moen. >> craig: ud would have to say the canadiens team a star- studded team, holds the u.s. team are more mutt and jeff. they are winders. there are some draft picks but not as high as a lot of canadiens players are. >> joe: united states lost a heart breaker new year's eve. they had a 3rd period lead. >> craig: a couple goals and chris bourque's brother playing for that squad. >> joe: brendan morrison all tied up. canadiens 3 on 3. washington fans wanting a call from the referee. green on the delay. on the head man to brooks laich. drop its. one more. scores. eric fehr. >> craig: tomas fleischmann deflects it. now it's their defenseman that deflects this one past a surprised netminder. here's eric fehr to the net. and that it hal gill. he's a big rig with a big foot. that's the old-fashioned redirect. off his skate boot. he knew it right away. that puck goes by. >> joe: eric fehr has a thing for

that freedom is jeopardized by new efforts to constrain religious practice, including recently in switzerlandby efforts to criminalize the definition of religion, a false solution which exchanges when wrong for another. i was privileged to share when we passed a resolution [unintelligible] principled pragmatism informs our approach on human rights. cooperation with each of those is critical to the help of the global economy and the non- proliferation agenda we seek and to managing a security issues like north korea and iran and addressing global problems like climate change. the united states seeks positive relationships with china and russia. that means candid discussions of divergent views. in china, we call for protection of rights of minorities into bein tibet and for civil society and organizations to abdicate their positions within the framework of the rule of law. we believe that those who advocate peacefully for reform within the constitution should not be prosecuted. with russia, we deplore the murder of journalists and activists who support the courageous individuals who advocate at

not have a slipping back and saying haiti or rwanda -- prior to the genocide, it was called the switzerland of central africa. there is a book by a man that says how the aid to going in from fans in europe actually set the stage for the genocide. you will see that some will argue that. money served to weaken as food security. the good news is that you did not need to be a nuclear scientist to figure out that some of the rules of the road would be the ones you mentioned. gender equity. what are the ground rules on job creation for women in a grand even to do with agricultural improvement, small business investment? that is one. if half of these big grants crews to overhead. i have looked at major grants where more than 50% does not leave the united states or stays in consultants. that is way too high. we can create a lot of jobs just by tweaking the rules of little bit. finally, i would say integrating this into the district plans of these places is difficult but critical. " that is very helpful. i appreciate that. >> thank you. we are on the back end of the vote. i would like to ask a coupl

the advantage program, medicare part b systems of switzerland and other lands, arguably also germany also contains many elements of an exchange. the health alliances and around which the clinton health plan was bills were exchanges appear, as were in our state base and private purchasing cooperatives which have been tried repeatedly and sometimes with success over the past two decades. connecticut business and industry association represented here today one represents a successful private purchasing cooperative. of course, while each of these models can be called an exchange, they are, in fact, quite different. indeed, the models represented by the house and senate bills are different in very significant ways. the focus of my paper and of my brief presentation this morning is on how the house and senate bills differ and on which model is most likely to result in the exchange spenser's past the goals that an exchange is intended to fulfill. first, quickly let me ask the question, why do we need exchange? what do we expected to accomplish for us? this change is intended to play in numb

don't have anything specific against muslims and at least in two cases, non-muslims, one in zurich, switzerland was released from jail and he was found by the terrorists, they convinced him to smuggle drugs to tel aviv with el al flight. he believed them because they give him money, but they packed the luggage and they towed him to the airport. the luggage went through the machine and nothing was identified. only through an interview he had and the questions of good qualified and well-trained guards, we stopped him on the ground. >> yes, and your point is you profile everybody, not just young muslim men, you know all of your your passengers. let's get to the air marshal issue. i think this was important. why was there no air marshal on this international flight from amsterdam. >> i wrote to the authorities the biggest mistake we make in this country, that we don't have air marshals on each flight. it's impossible that el al flight will leave without air marshals. now, we know that we are dealing with sophisticated enemy and my question is very simple, don't you understand they will learn which

switzerland is not part of the eu -- host: okay, we will leave it there. said about sarah palin and the coverage. sarah palin, from your reporting, was consumed with how she was being pursued in -- how she was being perceived in alaska during the election. guest: she was never very much involved in national politics. very few in the national political or media life had dealings with sarah palin. she was new. we talked to these national operatives in the mccain campaign and other people around sarah palin who to this day are the only people we know who have had exposure to her behind-the- scenes to see what she is like when she is not on tv or giving a speech. they met with sarah palin, two of mccain's advisers, mark salter and steve schmidt. they did not know her bridge was a stranger to them. one of things they discussed with her late in the meeting was the importance of her understanding that even though she would remain the sitting governor of alaska, she needed to understand her focus needed to be on the the national campaign. she was basically an appe

if you look at number two, switzerland, we are 56% higher than the swiss. why're costs higher here? that is what i will be focusing on. there are many factors, economic, political, historical -- it is hard to come up with a short list. i have come up with a list of four reasons. the lack of consolidation, of purchasing power, industrialization, paying for unnecessary care, and fee-for-service medicine. to understand lack of consolidation of purchasing power, think of canada. there's only one buyer of care in canada. it is a monopoly on the buying side. they have tremendous power in the negotiations with hospitals and doctors and pharmaceutical companies. they did not always had this. in the 1960's, they were like the united states. they spent more than we did on hospital and physician care. since that time, since they consolidated and had the government get involved, their growth rates and the costs have been much lower than the u.s. costs. but that is probably not a good model for the u.s.. i do not think the insurance companies are going anywhere. we need to look at a mall that in

haiti or rwanda or whatever -- i mean, rwanda, for example, prior to the genocide was called the switzerlandf central africa. and there's a book by a man named peter called "aiding genocide" which is how the aid that was going in -- massive amounts of aid mostly from france not from our country set the stage for genocide. some would argue the massive amounts of aid in haiti served inadvertently to weaken food security. the good news is with very -- you don't need to be a nuclear scientist to figure out that some of the rules of the roads would be the ones you mentioned. for example, gender equity. what are the ground rules on job creation for women in a grant even to do with education and health, agriculture improvements and small business. and that's job creation, gender equity. if half a lot of these big grants -- half of it goes to overhead. and i've done some study of this at harvard looking at major grants in the healthcare sphere where more than 50% doesn't leave -- doesn't leave the united states or stays in consultantcies in overhead. that's way too high. and we can create a lot of j

blessed of this going to spain and switzerland to move this forward. i met with officials and representatives of some of the largest airlines to talk about how we can strengthen aviation security. in spain, and met with foreign counterparts from across europe. it was a rare invitation for united states officials. there were four broad areas of discussion. information sharing, passenger venting, technology, international standards. i was very gratified to see that there exists a broad consensus in working on these four areas of mumbai european counterparts and a clear sense of urgency to take immediate action to strengthen security measures and identify areas of further progress. we signed a joint declaration affirming the commitment. the gathering in spain was the first in a series of meetings around the globe. it was facilitated by the aviation organization, the united nations body. last week i was also pleased to find a similarly strong one in geneva. i met with representatives from more than 20 airlines. the private sector's role in aviation securit

switzerland is not part of the eu -- host: okay, we will leave it there.t me pick up one thing she said about sarah palin and the coverage. sarah palin, from your reporting, was consumed with how she was being pursued in -- how she was being perceived in alaska during the election. guest: she was never very much involved in national politics. very few in the national political or media life had dealings with sarah palin. she was new. we talked to these national operatives in the mccain campaign and other people around sarah palin who to this day are the only people we know who have had exposure to her behind-the- scenes to see what she is like when she is not on tv or giving a speech. they met with sarah palin, two of mccain's advisers, mark salter and steve schmidt. they did not know her bridge was a stranger to them. one of things they discussed with her late in the meeting was the importance of her understanding that even though she would remain the sitting governor of alaska, she needed to understand her focus needed to be on the the national campaign.

payer, like canada, or countries with universal, regulated insurance, such as the netherlands, switzerland, and we are still paying twice as much? i can only contribute it to the fact that our congress is so financially corrupt. host: drew armstrong, help jack understand this. guest: he is right, on a per- capita basis, we spend more money than just about any other nation, and we get less. from a financial standpoint dancand care standpoint, our heh care programs are disappointed. -- disjointed. part of that reason is because we do not have a centralized health care system. ed we are going to be bringing people into this quote-unquote system. the idea is to eventually get that per capita spending down substantially. there's a number of reforms in here that the long-term effect which we don't know just yet but i think are going to have or i think a lot of us hope will have some effect in driving that down, making this more of a system, making it more efficient. there's a lot of things in terms of care coordination. one example is, you know, the hospitals, there's going to be a penalty on ho

the medicare advantage program the medicare part "d" program and those in the netherlands and switzerland and arguably in germany also exchanged -- contain elements of health insurance exchange. the connecticut business and industry association represented here by mr. vogel today represents a successful private purchasing cooperative. while each of these models can be called an exchange, they are in fact, quite different. indeed the models represented by the house and senate bills are different in very significant ways. the focus of my paper and my brief presentation this morning is how the house and senate bills differ and which model is most likely to result in the exchange that serves the best the goals that an exchange is intended to fulfill. first, let me ask you the question why do we need an exchange? what do we expect an exchange to accomplish for us that? it is intended to play a number of roles in health care reform. sarah briefly went over this, but let me do it again. first, it is expected to be the lowest of managed competition among health insurance plans. it is hoped that t

about twice as much per person as other countries do on health care and if you look at number two, switzerland we're 56% higher than the swiss. so why are costs higher here? this i'll be focusing on and there are many factors, there's an economic, political, historical ones, it's hard to come up with a short list. but at the risk of doing so i've come up with a list of four reasons why i think health care costs are higher in the united states than elsewhere. and their lack of consolidation, purchasing power, medical technology and specialization, paying for unnecessary care and fee for service medicine and i'm only going to talk about the first one of these although i'll leave the others at the very end because john skinner will be talking about the other three, i believe he will be in his talk. i understand lack of consolidation, purchasing power, take a counterexample which would be canada. canada has a single payer system. there's only one buyer of care in canada, that's the provinces. so they're what we called a monopoly on the buying side. so they have tremendous power in their negotiatio