she told the audience of hospital lobbyist that the american hospital association was hypocritical, selfish, provoke eiland patronized and the hospitals hide behind a screen of concern for the disadvantaged while perpetuating an unequal system of health care. she presented the delegates with a list of demands from the welfare rights movement. she told hospital officials to end the practice of dumping poor and uninsured patients or transferring them an unstable conditions. she demanded the establishment of clinics where people could attend instead of going to the emergency room. she called prayer requirements for all hospitals to accept medicaid patients. she demanded that patient representatives and members of the community especially representatives of the poor should have a seat on the hospital board. she asked for informed consent about medical treatment and especially that all patients should be treated with dignity and respect. supposedly the audience of hospital officials listened very politely to all of this but when smith had finished speaking they went about their business at the c

. >> why did the head of the american hospital association talk to you? >> they wanted to give their per sective and we want it had perspective of lobbyists. i don't think he as bad guy at all. i think he's just doing his job. his job is to advocate on behalf of hospitals and that's the way our system is set up. >> shannon brown i laughed about the money thing. $1.1 billion. what did the health care industry get for that $1.1 billion? >> specifically the insurance industry got a bill that didn't have a public option and got a bill that was essentially giving them 30 million more customers. so i think the real winners of the health care bill were the insurance industry. that got many, many more customers. and people don't really think about it that way but that's sort of what happened. >> how much money a year do we spend on pharmaceuticals? >> $300 billion. >> and that $1.1 billion wasn't all pharmaceuticals. >> no. it was a number of different health care lobbyists. >> what did the hospitals get out of the bill? >> it's unclear what the -- what exactly t

. >> well, in 1946 and the american nurses association decided there are going to adopt a brgaining strategy in 1947 exempted nonprofit including nonprofit hospitals repealed until 1974, but that was after the 1966 strike in san francisco that 30 hospitals were struck by unions. that paved the way for passage a law that allowed strikes and bargaining in the hospital sector back in 1974 tom: the nurses, and i'm familiar with nordic california. they have been very aggressive. you were telling me before we started during the break that this is a national issue. >> we have cases in florida, texas, tennant, hca, kaiser, all the big health care providers. basically they're leveraging management to do what is called a neutrality greement. management agrees to unionized employees without as secret ballot election, and now wants to get them organized a comeback and levers and. tom: so shame on the management and the hospitals. >> absolutely. tom: it is a no-win ituation. the corporate campaign tat is waste agnst these companies is that death by a thousand cuts. they come at you from all different angles, religious groups, so-called religious groups, commun

the bay area and two hospitals associated with the hospital corporation of america. they plan to walk out tuesday with the nurses continuing to strike wednesday. they say they are upset about patient care conditions. >> american airlines has a possible deal with its pilots. it still has to go up for a vote but it could pave the way for the airline to get out of bankruptcy. the parent company filed for chapter 11 just about a year ago and said its struggled delayed flights. >> safeway plans to hire more military veterans next year. they have hired 1300 this year. they say that's part of a longstanding policy. there is another 41 week long program to train and place vets in top leadership positions. >>> pg&e said its planning to offer career training courses for veterans. its part of the power pathway program. the utility said it expects more than 40% of the work force to be eligible in the next five- years and view veterans as high potential candidates for the positions, classes are being offered next year. to apply contact pg&e. >> there are a lot of events being held this veteran's day weekend. the rotc program at the university of san francisco is hosting a fun run right now. it's a four mile run or walk ar