germany, switzerland, they don't have medicare.e stay with the insurer cradle to grave. >> the swiss was getting fed up with their private insurance in the early 1990s. costs rising and premiums were higher for women and the elderly and those with preexisting conditions had trouble getting coverage. some were foregoing insurance altogether. >> the people were flying out of the insurance so we had to stop this. >> reporter: dreyfus, who would later become switzerland's first woman president, pushed for a law that required everyone to buy insurance, gave subsidies to the poor and stop rejecting people for their medical history. sound familiar? that's exactly what president obama's law would do but in switzerland, it was uphill battle. the law passed parliament and barely squeaked by the referendum with 52% of the vote. >> nobody was really happy but everybody could accept. >> reporter: how is the swiss version of president obama's law faring almost 20 years after it was put in place? >> i show you x-rays.. >> everyone is now covered

but in switzerland, it was an uphill battle.arliament, but barely squeaked by in a national referendum with 52% of the vote. >> where nobody was really happy, but everybody could accept. >> so how is the swiss version of president obama's law faring almost 20 years after it was put in place? >> i'll show you the x-rays we did. >> everyone is now covered and the the care is still top-notch. the swiss enjoy one of the longest healthy life expectancies in the world. >> we have an extremely comfortable system. i mean, the access is easy, you don't have to wait. >> tom zelckner was the swiss secretary of health from 1991 to 2009. >> hospitals have become more like five-star hotels, offering health care. >> the swiss law went above and beyond obamacare. insurance companies were already banned from making a profit on basic health coverage. under the new law, they had to expand that basic package, covering even more procedures. >> even very expensive pharmaceuticals are paid by the insurance plans and have to be paid. >> the swiss syste

you're in switzerland. the time president clinton was pushing health care reform in the 1990s, ruth dreyfuss, a left-wing swiss official faced a lot of tough questions. >> will we have to pay for the treatment of drug addicts? will we have to pay for obese people? will we have to pay for abortion? >> switzerland is business friendly and always have gone its own way, charting its own course in health care with private providers and private insurance. and that's not so rare according to one journalist. >> one thing that many believe about health care around the world is that other rich countries around the world all have socialized medicine. is that true? >> that's baloney. some governments do provide care and pay for it but a lot of democracies, belgium, japan, they cover everybody in the private system, private docs, and hospitals. germany and switzerland, they don't have public health care. >> but the swiss were getting fed up with the private insurance system in the 1990s. costs were rising and premiums w

he preaches his hair blond to be integrated, to look as if he was from switzerland. at a football game, he is looking with all the other men, and it is italy against switzerland. at one time, the italians win. i find it beautiful and emotional at the same time. he betrayed himself through that reaction, and at the same time, it was beautiful, but at the same time, it is sad that you have to change your color or to hide it. that you have to do something like that to deny even your origin. you have to be proud of your urgent and to show it. >> you are giving me a challenge and a challenge -- giving me a challenge and yourself a challenge. what about cult? that is not something to hide behind. it is so out there, and yet, it can be quite important part of your collection. why? >> i have been very marked by the movement. -- what about punk? >> it is not like a creation, absolute. it is part of living in society. of course, the punk movement was very important. like already taken by the society in some ways. i must say that when i was going to london, i loved that. the in

switzerland is an attractive location for wealthy middle class greeks. >> he is in a hurry because hisext greek customer is waiting. for reasons of discretion, we're not allowed to meet the client. >> change of pace and to the story on hiv/aids. the study of black men in six american cities as of hiv infection rates were 50% higher than among white men. the report also shows that overall infection rates among black gay and bisexual men in the u.s. rival those seen in sub-saharan africa. >> a shocking results. the findings have been presented at the international aids conference in washington, d.c. organizers say same-sex education and cheaper drug therapy remains the best way to combat the virus. a number of european countries have seen that strategy delivers the real advances for public health. >> some figures to offer hope in the fight against hiv-aids. the german health minister was in washington to open germany's stand at the conference. >> we are proud that the number of new infections in germany have sunk to just 2700 new infections a year, but that is still 2700 gemini. still wo

more about this i'm joined by professor under a gluten who works at the large hadron collider in switzerland prophetical it and thanks very much for talking to me please as simply as you can for the layman out there what is the explosive and what scientific relevance does it have or if you know i'm. mean surest put us back to the ground so what does he give them for the first well for us what is important to find symmetry which somehow govern the nature and long time we've thought we have found this kind of symmetry which is called standard more though this is not just a static series it's just dynamic siri which are a way to equation which describes all known interaction of particles and this model works incredibly well. however the only problem was that more the over the model was written for the particles we don't have muscles. and then the math i knew was and went to just to give muscles to the particles hoses particles was sort of photos of one it was not found experimentally people was hunting for this particle for years and now we are witnessing clearly historical moment but that's qu

how patriotic do you think it is for mitt romney to keep some of his wealth offshore either in switzerland or in the cayman islands when he's running for president of the united states? >> i'm not aware of it. >> speaker, late last -- >> whoa. remember, there's a rule here. >> several congressional committees have gotten an unclassified report indicating that iran may test fire in the next couple years. how do you think th-- [ inaudible question ] >> i'm certainly not going to disclose classified information. >> this is unclassified. >> the threat from iran is real. it's real for our closest ally, israel, and it's real for all of the countries in the region. i think that we passed an iran sanctions bill where we gave the president a full toolbox of tools to use, sanctions to use, to help bring the iranians to heel. the president ought to use more of the tools that were given to him to get iran to declare that they're not going to produce nuclear weapons. >> mr. speaker you mentioned closing of loopholes as part of tax reform. republicans are talking to democrats about closing those loophol

i can put it in switzerland.ese arguments. >> eliot: the prudent individual who has made enormous wealth in venezuela or a range of other countries around the world would in fact would want to put it in a place that is more security. that's why many buy real estate in the united states. so the money can go from russia to manhattan and they feel secure it's not going to be taken away from them. but let's make this is domestic issue. there is offshore money in the united states. why is it put there if you're mitt romney. i don't want to pick on him we do it all the time. we'll give him a two-minute reprieve. why would he have tax accounts in the cayman islands. >> because they have different laws and sometimes he does need to pay corporation taxes. if he owns a company in the cayman islands that company may not have to pay the same kind of taxes as if this company was based in the u.s. so in that sense it's a tax haven. >> and he can set up a corporation in the cayman or somewhere else that will accept foreign mone

it happened in geneva, switzerland. billion and it spans 17 miles under the border of switzerland and france. 2900 scientists are working exclusively on capturing the higgs is boson. they analyzed a thousand collisions before finding it. it's possible we could have mad that discovery here in america, and we could have done it a decade earlier, but they killed it back in 1993. >> we can argue about the scientific merits all day long. we can make all sorts of exaggerated claims. we simply cannot afford it. we have other priorities. >> both parties killed the texas project that might have kept the u.s. on the cutting edge. so what is the higgs is boson? maybe it's a missed opportunity. i'm joined by leonard, a physicist and science writer at cal tech in pasadena and the author of subliminal, how your unconscious mind rules your behavior. what should the average person know about the higgs boson sph. >> there are four forces in nature? gravity, which is described by einstein's theory of relativity and the other three, which

researcher of happiness and creativity and the age of sixteen he had an opportunity to travel to switzerland and listen to carl jung this influenced him and he decided to immigrate to america and study psychology nowadays me high and high is best known for his theory of flow and mental state of pure motivation which makes people truly happy he is author of over one hundred books and articles which have influenced many people in different fields among them are former u.s. president bill clinton and former british prime minister tony blair. hello and welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us from hollywood . chicks and me ali is a look at the exact state of the maybe you're going for you from the. central as we just heard. central in your research is that theory right could you explain explain what that is what is that optimal human experience you know. i should make clear that i was interested in studying happiness and the beginning i was interested. in creativity and i was studying people who have done to their work in the arts and sciences and so forth and one of the it was

according to his 2002 he return he didn't just send money to switzerland, he purchased a town in america for an internal bank, populated it with swiss people and stuffed money up their asseses, because the insides of swiss people also technically swiss soil and immune to american tax law. by the way f that's not uncomfortable enough, inside each one of those people is also a tooth pick, tweezers and a cork screw. because-- they're swiss and are multifunctional. you are probably asking, what happens if he needs his money right away. it's in swiss people's colons and they are notoriously constipated people. (laughter) -- mucili you say, no t will take too long. mitt romney plays a game he calls swiss pinata and he doesn't even wear a blindfold where is the fun if that, i'm saying when mitt romney needs money quickly he beats a swiss person until they break open. at least according to the tax papers we have. i'm sure if there is anything else we need understand about the financial situation, they'll let us know. well's be right back. (cheers and applause) welcome back, my guest tonight a co

paid equally in switzerland.i don't know if they used the same measurements as we do, but that surprised me. in switzerland women don't get the votes until 1971 and get his got a strong women's movement. now why do we still have 77 fact that? there's a number of reasons. it is not always true. it is true often women are part-time or they take time off. but even when you measure apples to apples, college professors, will come to work insane hours, same job, 87 were sent, women get the 100 or send them mcat. so one of the curious, if you will, to narrow that gap was revealed to me by the recent report -- state-by-state report of the pay gap. vermont, by the way, was the number one state. the number one area was washing to d.c. think about it. why would washington have the narrowest pay gap? government. if you work for the government, your salary is public information. a lot of companies do not even allow people to talk about what the person at the next desk to them is earning. that was the case for lilly ledbetter.

you nations like switzerland or even like asha in such a open. you'll be in society of his own currency of his own democracy is all in the nation's. new false veldt economy namely a sawed off alliance of nation the european alliance of nations so this is my hope for the future thank you very much for your time. for. interpol started here before going global and now it's pulling viral. log in. to look around. choose your place change your stance. and needs to. make your statement. spread the word. occupy wall street and launch. top stories this hour on r.t. russia and china a vote vetoed i should say another western backed resolution at the u.n. security council which threatened syria with new sanctions and could have paved the way for military intervention russia's also canceled a vote on its own draft resolution which was aimed at extending the u.n. observer mission to syria moscow says western countries refused to even consider the text. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu extends his blame is to include lebanon saying both iran and hezbo

you nations like switzerland or even like a national in such open. your peon society his own currency of his own democracy his own nations we could form a new force in the vatican army namely a sort of alliance of nations the european alliance of nations so this is my hope for the future thank you very much for your time. wealthy british style. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. full started here before going global that's now calling the fire. log in. the road. choose your place take your stand. to. make your statement. spread the word. coupon stream a month. download the official antti application to go on the phone on pod touch from the i choose our to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s mine old costs and says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. resistance not the politics but a culture. this could. cultures of resistance on our team. breaking news here