>> absolutely. >> "america tonight" reached out to united health care. fter a dozen exchanged e-mails and telephone calls united health care would only speak to us off the record but they did issue a statement. from the start we have reached out to the family to explain and help them understand all of the benefits available under mr. walls health plan. we continue to be available to help the family locate alternative programs. >> and this is where the injury happens in locked in syndrome. >> dr. richard harvey is an expert in locked in syndrome ric, the rehabilitation institute of chicago. in the past years he has seen only 42 cases because it's so rare. >> in your average nursing home would not even get him out of the chair much. >> harvey says early intervention is the best of course. >> we've had patients dmomg with lockedcoming inand left walkers. >> vicky, 25 years ago had the same stroke as brett. but her insurance company covered intensive treatment. >> we never had any problem with bills, and gail and brett have to fight for everything. >> they ha

you have the experience for the united health care plan. all that we have been talking about leads up to this and a set of preliminary rates for 2016 so i turn you to page two, and there's not a lot of people in this program. this is the active cohort of individuals covered under the uhc city plan. as you can see we're at 600 and e plus ones at 76 and we're at 33 people in the family. most of these people are in areas where there is a special stipend that allows them to not have to pay the now $400 contribution rate based on the recent contribution formula and if you look at the premium levels those controlled to blue shield and kaiser rates are very big, and so the policy has been to continue carrying this forward and at some point and time i recommend that we consider what we're going to do besides just -- at some point either do we change this? reignite the plan, close the plan? i don't know but we need to address it at this point and it's hard to rate when it's some small so that's the data there we turn over to page three. we look at t

today, we honor one of the many achievements he's the founding medical director for the acute care for elderly unit at the san francisco general hospital that's a model of care that received national attention for the focus only maintaining and improving during they stay their physical and cognizant active functions 8 years ago the san francisco general hospital leadership had the foresight to understand that the san francisco polyps was age and an innovative model was needed to aid the special needs of the population and they choose dr. lou sail to lead and start and fulfill this dream and vision of a unit this is opening in february of 2007 the unit has confessed cared for over 12 thousands patient and has helped people across the country to come and see the outcomes they've been able to achieve i have to say thank you so much if the general for allowing us to learn as well in december the unit will move up to the 78th floor of the brand new building we saw in the video and to the rooftop this will aid our seniors in a speedy recovery so, please welcome dr. people's 3 i can't remember lou say to

care doctors. >> i wanted to get him into rehabilitation as soon as possible. that's when we went to unitedhealth care to transfer him to a rehabilitation hospital. that's when the denials began. >> after the clock ticking for five months, gail requested intensive rehab therapy. they were turned down, they appealed four times and they were denied five times. "america tonight" reached out to united health care after more than a dozen exchanged e-mails and telephone calls united health care would only speak to us off the record. but they did issue a statement. from the start we have reached out to the family to explain and help them understand all of the benefits available under mr. walls health plan. we continue to be available to help the family locate alternative programs. >> why should you have to fight? why should you have to get the media involved? why do you have to get all over their twitter and facebook page? they just rubber stamp rubber stamp, rubber stamp rubber stamp hoping you'll give up. >> now another challenge. brett's former employer is cutting off benefits for their employe

so when i was a resident we used to round in the intensive care unit. so there was a -- one night when i had been on call and the following morning we were rounding on our patients, and anyone who's been in an intensive care unit or worked in an intensive care unit knows the horrible tragedies that happen in icus. and our intensive care unit was no different. there was a guy who had been misdiagnosed with a slipped disc and had actually severed his spinal cord and was now completely paralyzed. and there were, you know patients who had multiple myeloma who were on ventilators, and it was just, you know, it was a horrible unit. and so, and so our team had stayed up all night, and we were rounding. and we were rounding with an attending named abe sanders. and abe was a great attending. he was a jocular fellow. and so we were going through, and we found ourselves in the room of a patient who was on a ventilator and we were parenning the case -- presenting the case. and sanders sort of like looked off, and he was looking through the window. any of you who hav

care options for kids. this is all part of a battle between dupont hospital for children and united health care. wmakers and hospital officials said those two groups failed to work together to come up with a plan that would have given united health care members access to the children's hospital and its services. it would also impact those on medicaid who currently do not have access to the hospital. >>> in delaware county shoppers will soon be able to have a drink in the store. state officials approved the liquor license for a full-service wegman's pub in concord township. the store near baltimore pike at route 202 is still under construction but will eventually serve beer and wine. it will be located in the brandywine mills shopping center. the wegman's is scheduled to open in september. >>> 4:47 now. pennsylvania lawmakers who are supporting a medical marijuana bill say they are confident it will soon become law. state lawmakers met yesterday to discuss the medical cannabis act. state senator leach is a co-sponsor of the bill. he believes it will pass the senate and the house. some lawmakers sa

time to honor our sponsors kaiser permanente your top webb core builders and wells fargo and united health care you rock stanley lange do have foundation and sf your grand and at&t and pg&e let's give them a great big hand hand. (clapping.) >> the heros for the year this afternoon they all have gathered here i sing it allowed and clear it's their communities that they all hold so dear my how this is is a hurray dr. diane leads the way and dr. edgar pier we see you're also gifted we thank you will have you for all you do so raise glass and give a cheer to your new hospital opening in december this year in san francisco welcome, welcome me home i'm coming home to room no more. (clapping.) >> (piano playing). >> thank you, stephanie and beach blanket bagging babylon there's a little time left from the auction in heart pleased visit ebay works table to introduce our final heros of the day please welcome janet chief executive officer northern california kaiser permanente. >> (clapping.) thank you so much wow, i wondering if that hat is available on the auction later day today, i bet a lot of people

it turns out before i got into the hospital i scheduled an interview with the ceo of united health care at their head quarters in minnesota. so once i could travel i went out there and interviewed him about the lobbying over the bill and how it could affect the industry and his thoughts on hospital consolidation and all of that good stuff. and when i was finished i took the benefits list out of jacket and i said would you mind explaining to this. i have read and read it but i cannot understand it. and he takes it to vice president of the corporate affairs who is sitting there and i can see him figure out what his next job is going to be. he is a very smart and nice guy. and looks at it and looks at it and looks up at me and says i could sit here all day and i could not tell you what that means. i have no idea why they sent it to you. and i said aren't you they? the point of this is that is definitely the most common communication to consumers in the biggest industry in what is thought to be the most vibrant, free marketing economy on the planet. explanations of benefits. we all get them

united health care group is up 32%. anthem is up 23%. here are the republicans who are holding a vote to tinker with the private sector where they're making double digit increases over the last six months. since the republicans are complaining so much about this maybe there would be a down tick in profit. if i'm running united health care, i want the republicans to tell me i'm not going to have my 32% increase over the last few months screwed around with because my stockholders are pretty concerned about that. that's where we are. there's no rhyme. there's no reason to what the republicans are doing. it is all anti-obama. jonathan alter you first. your reaction to this latest repeal vote that is going on this hour? >> this is all about the freshmen. they told all their radical right wing constituents they were against this and they had to show they were going to go to washington and vote on what they said they would do. what's fascinating to me about it is how it could end up someday -- not right away maybe -- blowing up in the face of e

time to honor our sponsors kaiser permanente your top webb core builders and wells fargo and united health care you rock stanley lange do have foundation and sf your grand and at&t and pg&e let's give them a gre

time to honor our sponsors kaiser permanente your top webb core builders and wells fargo and united health care you rock stanley lange do have foundation and sf your grand and at&t and pg&e let's give them a great big hand hand. (clapping.) >> the heros for the year this afternoon they all have gathered here i sing it allowed and clear it's their communities that they all hold so dear my how this is is a hurray dr. diane leads the way and dr. edgar pier we see you're also gifted we thank you will have you for all you do so raise glass and give a cheer to your new hospital opening in december this year in san francisco welcome, welcome me home i'm coming home to room no more. (clapping.) >> (piano playing)

. -- 56-cents and up $156.96 and we were in 142-2013 $142 and we are behind it with united health care and by giving us the low number. that's their decision. i think it's fantastic for the members. they want $171.09 and i see nothing wrong with that number given the marketplace so i want you guys to accept this number. >> you have heard the recommendation. are there questions? is there a motion? >> motion to accept the recommendations. >> okay. >> that's it. >> that's it. >> yep. all right. madam secretary. >> item 5 discussion item. review ined but not reported ibnr status. >> aon hewitt. what you have before you is full disclosure what you have on your books for the ibnr reserves and for the self funded programs. since you take the risk you need on the balance sheet the liability. what it is if you stop the program at a given time can you pay the claims, the run ought claims that happen before that time and remitd and invoiced and then you would have to pay after that. that is a financial responsibility of any self funded program and we do these on a physical year basis to correspon

so when i was a resident, we used to round in the intensive care unit. so there was a -- one night when i had been on call, and i -- the following morning we were rounding on our patients, and anyone has been in expensive care unit knows the horrible tragedies that happen in icus and our intensive care unit was no different. there's a guy who had been misdiagnosed with a slip eddies can and had actually severed his spinal cord and was now completely paralyzed and there were patients who had multiple my loma on ventilators and it was a horrible unit, and so our teamed stayed up all night and we were rounding with an attending neighborhood abe sanders, and he was a great attending. he was a jocular fellow, and so we were going through and we found ourselves in a room of a patient who was on a ventilator, and we were presenting the case and sanders sort of like looked off, looking through the window and any of you who have been at new york hospital know that there's a greenburg pavilion built over the fdr drives and looks out on to the east river. so sanders

chancellor of ucsf, a colleague of mine for years who started at ucsf and led our neonatal intensive care unit and dean of the medical school and now ucsf chancellor. help me in welcoming him. [ applause ] . >> thank you, let me begin by thanking you for your extraordinary leadership in the last decade and helping us envision this hospital and doing a lot of the hard work on many fronts to enable us to get to this really magnificent day which is a landmark day for health care in not just the city of san francisco but in the greater bay area and tluts the united states and some places globally. it is truly a remarkable building but as mark said while we are celebrating the completion of the facilities today, what will happen on sunday is really the event we are looking forward to and that is welcoming families and patients into these facilities to enhance their care, provide care, healing and world class medicine and technology. just to the north of us for those of us who aren't familiar with the mission bay campus lies more than 2 million square feet of state of the art research space unquesti

. >> reporter: united health care workers sponsored this event in san leandro helping couples like carlos martinez and lopez get the coverage their employers don't offer as part time and freelance workers. >> for me, it's been my dad has insurance since i was like 16. i'm 26 by 10 years. >> so when people can't get the care they need. that frankly becomes a population health issue. this is about californians getting healthier, staying healthier and living longer lives. >> reporter: the day drew heavy hitters rallying people to help covered california meet their goat by the deadline. before the weekend there were 3.9 million enrolled. >> health care is a basic human right and we can't forget that. >> reporter: barbara lee says the people who need health care should speak louder than those who want to see the affordable health care act repealed. >> we will have 15 to 20 million people covered. you're going to take away their health care, come on, please. those nay sayers need to get with the program. >> reporter: once jose gets with the program, he hopes it will get him better help and peac

. >> reporter: family members are at the intensive care unit every day. >> difficult situation there. daisy lee's family is trying to raise money to help pay for her care. we have a link for their go fund my site on our website. >>> a strong earthquake hit off the coast of japan leading to a tsunami advisory and evacuations. the 6.8 magnitude quake was 130 miles east of miako japan. they evacuated coastal towns. >>> the mother of a security officer who escaped a deadly shooting at a san jose shopping center is being called a hero. he was killed over a $20 box of cigars. he worked as a security guard at a nightclub. two men were trying to steal a box of cigars from a nearby store, and they dropped them. he went to help the thieves, not knowing they were thrivesieves, and he was shot. >> in my eyes, he will always be a hero. manny jumped in the line of fire for my son. and i will be forever grateful for him. >> a memorial is growing at the site where manny was shot. a memorial service will be held for him tonight at 8:00. at this point, police have no suspects. >>> labor secretary tom p

president is taking the lead on this even if he's not taking the lead on this united nations effort that you don't even care about. >> the united nations human rights commission which was once led by moammar gadhafi -- when you start associating united nations -- >> thank you for validating my point. >> it is true. the united nations deals with a lot of bad people and are led by bad people. >> you think credit swisse will volunteer information? >> you've got to be tough with these guys. >> there is no harm with them helping. >> is there any harm letting russia do this? no. >> we don't want to make enemies of our enemies. >> we are not saying lift sanctions on them. who knows better than to deal with chechen violence. >> i've got a brooklyn bridge for you. do you want to buy it? >> taking the eyeballs off the invasion of ukraine. >> you did have a settlement by the end of the week. i hear your point. >> at least it acknowledges the sources of money and how isis is basically continuing to build this war chest. part of the problem is the rest of the world haven't done anything about it in the last year or 1 1/

, sting or no sting operation, oakland pd's debbie hoffman works the street as part of opd's see care unite is the human equivalent of a life line trying to reach the unreachable. >> human trafficking is happening right here in our own backyard. just happening from county to county and from state to state. this is my cell phone number. okay. i want you to call me when you get out. okay? even if you don't want to get into a program. just let me know you're okay. okay? >> hoffman tries to make an emotional connection with the young girls in an attempt to wrest them from the iron grip of their pimps. >> they'll probably make around maybe a thousand dollars a night off of one girl. and if he has six girls that's $6,000 in one night. >> hoffman says many of the 13 and 14-year-olds she sees are american girls trafficked from normal homes. >> the youngest girl i ever saw out on the street was ten years old. i'll never forget her. she was wearing a white jacket, which was filthy dirty. she was i'd say, i know she was well under five feet tall. she wasn't developed. and she was with a mentor who wa

also by hillco partners, texas government affairs consultancy, and its global health care consulting business unit, hillco health, and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation and viewers like you, thank you. >> i'm evan smith. "the washington post," previously edited the boston globe where he and his colleagues won six pulitzer prizes, journalism's highest honor. he's martin baron, this is "overheard." >> i guess we can't fire him now. >> the night that i win the emmy. >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream. >> it's hard work and it's controversial. >> without information there is no freedom and it's journalists who provide that information. >> windows roll down, this guy says, hey, it goes to 11. [ laughter ] >> marty baron, welcome. >> thank you. >> nice to see you. >> it's been fifteen months or so, the big job at the want, grade yourself, how do you think you've done, assess your own work. >> sure, well, i'll grade ourselves as a group, not myself personally, i think the post has done a terrific job. our work, the work that we did on the n.s.a. was at the leading edge of that s

. >> some of the state documents have revealed a third of the acute care units have not been updated in a decade. in some of the places that provide critical care support, and we will show you some of the hospitals that are most at risk and why. >> reporter: february 9th, 1971. >> the wrenching force of the earthquake broke apart the l.a. county hospital. >> reporter: the magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit southern california killing 65 people, four at the medical center in sylmar. >> i felt the jolt first. >> it was seconds. seconds i felt that the building was going down. >> they were psyche attendants there working on the second floor when it collapsed. >> i knew that major structural damage occurred. >> reporter: they helped their patients escape. >> for me, it was to take care of the patients and escape, and then they can get home and i can get home. >> and we could see small objects lying 20 or 30 or 40 feet around. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: the hospital was rebuilt, and now it meets all of the state safe the ti standards. >> theoretically, we should withstand the 8.0 on the se

turn to david louie. >> reporter: this story is a very emotional story playing out in the intensive care unittal. it's been 16 days since this disease was first diagnosed. the mother still doesn't know what's happening. this is an infection so aggressive it sometimes requires amputation to stop it from advancing. 46 year old daisy lee has always been the one in her family who helps others. the. >> she's the glue. she's the one who takes care of everyone. and it's true. >> reporter: now she's facing a sudden illness where she has to depend on others. she's fighting a rare disease commonly called flesh-eating bacteria. the bacteria release toxins that destroy the body's tissues. she has had four surgeries and is under heavy sedation, unaware of the radical steps taken to keep the bacteria from spreading. her right arm has been amputated and more amputations are likely. >> one minute she went in dealing with flu-like symptoms and she will be waking up later perhaps month later, without her arm, probably with her fingers and toes amputated. >> reporter: daisy lee's husband is in shock over this l

still scattered across the road a day after an accident that sent her daughter to the intensive care unit. >> doing something like that. >> this fairfax county mother who didn't want to be identified saying she was going in and out of consciousness but remembers being at a stoplight here at hunters glenn way and lee highway south of 66 when all of a sudden she says they were rammed from behind. >> next thing i knew the air bags deployed and my children were screaming about my youngest being right behind my feet. >> she says it wasn't long before a bystander came rushing over to help pulling her and her 6-year-old out of the car. she says she was fearing the worst last night after doctors told her her daughter had a skull fracture and was left unconscious. more than 12 hours later, she says her daughter started talking again for the first time since the accident having her breathing a sigh of relief. they were headed back from a night out at the movies, two stoplights away from her home when the accident take place. a witness tracked him down and got his tag and called police. police later

chancellor of ucsf, a colleague of mine for years who started at ucsf and led our neonatal intensive care unit and dean of the medical school and now ucsf chancellor. help me in welcoming him. [ applause ] . >> thank you, let me begin by thanking you for your extraordinary leadership in the last decade and

today's precious cargo included patients of all ages, including newborns from the intensive care unit. >> the hospital move was seamless. we were the first ones to leave. we left on time. we each were transported in our own ambulance and with you know, five stap staff members for each of our kids. >> we feel terrific about today. it's been ten years in the coming, in the planning and construction. we're just delighted that this day has finally occurred. >> ucsf will continue to serve patients at both car nas as heights and zion. >>> ferry riders will have a new trip to fran tomorrow morning. golden gate ferry will add an 8:00 a.m. run for nine months. frnls say 6,000 riders travel certain days of the week and that some officer reese tell sell out. this is expected to relieve that crowding. >>> still ahead, the president will introduce a half trillion dollar project tomorrow to fix the nation's highways and bridges. why it may be about more than just fixing roads. >>> and a rising number of sea bulldog: you don't need superpowers to help someone. sometimes, all it takes is a warm heart

also by hillco partners, texas government affairs consultancy, and its global health care consulting business you unit, ho health and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm evan smith. he's best known for playing the modern era of television, hank kingsly. his new web-only series is transparent. he's jeffrey tambor, this is overheard. >> actually there are not two sides to every issue >> i guess we can't fire him now. >> i guess we can't fire him now. the nights that i win an emmy >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream. it's hard work and it's controversial >> without information there's no freedom and it's journalists who provide that information >> window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes until 11:00. >> jeffrey tambor, welcome >> my pleasure. thank you >> so nice to have you here >> thank you. i'm honored. >> i want to ask you first about transparent i'm excited about this. amazon >> the revolution is here. when we delivered the show, i remembered talking to some people and i thought the revolution was here, it's actually been here f

texas government affairs consultancy, and its global health care consulting business unit, hillco health, and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation. and viewers like you. thank you! >> i'm evan smith, he's a senior energy reporter for the "wall street journal" and a finalist for the pulitzer prize whose new book is the boom, how fracking ignited the u.s. energy revolution and changed the world, he's russell gold. this is "overheard." >> actually, there are not two sides to every issue. >> yeah. we can't fire him now. >> i guess we can't fire him now. >> the night that i win the emmy. >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream. >> it's hard work and it's controversial. >> right. without information there's no freedom and it's journalists who provide that information. >> window rolls down and this guy goes, hey, it goes to 11. [ laughter ] >> russell gold, welcome. >> thank you. >> good to see you, congratulations on the book, let me ask you about publishing entry hyperbole in this title. change the world. >> the world. >> the world really, not just changed our country, but c

the elderly, patients spending a lot of time in hospitals, especially in the critical care units and those with catheters or on ventilators. the fact that we're still talking about tens of thousands of people every year getting hospital-acquired infections is an indictment frankly, of how poorly we're doing. so for hospitals and clinics it means strict protocols and then doctors and nurses and everyone else following the rules. lester. >> all right, dr. nancy, thanks very much. >>> now to another story that a lot of folks are talking about. a firestorm over what the former mayor of new york city said about president obama. politics can be a rough business, and everyone's fair game even the leader of the free world. but when rudy giuliani went before a room of donors and told them that the president of the united states doesn't love his country, his own country, it set off a war of words. nbc's andrea mitchell is covering the fallout. >> reporter: it all started with the way the president talked about islam at his counterterrorism summit. >> no religion is responsible for terrorism. p

another nine are being treated in intensive care units in santa clara and sonoma counties.l information are alameda contra costa up and say mateo counties. >>catherine: a sternly for parents from the cdc. it says that most packaged foods for toddlers as too much sugar and salt. researchers analyzed more than 1000 boats in the study nearly 70 percent were too high insurance all cereal bars, breakfast pastries and snacks are the primary culprits. experts say you need to pay closer attention to the labels. >>catherine: they're celebrating over the you see sf not only did the new medical center just opened its doors to the public but they welcome the first baby born at the facility >>reporter: the couple went to the old parnassus facility at 630 waiting. everyone was getting ready for their move. spinning closed and people is the welcoming just her each other >>reporter: at known the baby came just-in-time before the game >>reporter: as for mom and baby they're doing great the first baby born in this huge expense of hospital. >>reporter: this is the second child for the couple

units. >> take care of yourself. >> i hope you don't come back. >> i hope you don't come back, too. >> nieveshort time in georgia, he says now he would like to return there. >> lot of trees, fresh air, it's just different from california. california is fast, fast, fast, and georgia is calm, slow. and day by day. >> change has arrived for john mcfarland, as well, it has been two weeks since his former cell mate has been released. he is now housed with a friend from the streets, cardia fitzgerald, and so far it has been nothing but good times. >> how we knew each other, we went to dance school, and now that we're here we became best friends, and we see eye to eye, we might have our differences but we still come together and one, and i enjoy every minute of it. >> every single minute. >> right. right. >> i live for it all. you my best. >> you mine, too. >> fitzgerald even serves as a sounding board for mcfarland's budding music career. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that is my little song. >> a one-hit wonder -- i came to win and conquer, this is just -- >> right, but a one-hit wonder song that just comes out and neve