my question is, you alluded to united health. can you talk a little bit about how you envision insurance companies playing a role in this? >> that's interesting, because in some ways leading the charge. they're trying to come up with them we're in this crisis with cost of health care and to try to come up with remedies. ac, like, for example, they published yesterday, united health, a personalized medicine white paper extensive report predicting that genomics is going to be transformative of medicine. the pharmacy benefit managers like medco, there are pushing genotyping to make for much more efficient use of drugs, avoidance of side effects and mashing up the drug that will work in the right person. so we are starting to see more of this. for example, now you know the nicholas volker case, it was millions of dollars that were expended to the final point and then he had sequencing. what about doing the sequencing up front? now we've had health insurers pay for sequencing much earlier which is a really good time. so we are startin

think that that's really an important thing we need to have radical change in how we deliver health care in the united states the delivery mechanism right now is the health insurance is for profit health insurance companies that are skimming ten twenty thirty forty cents out of every dollar forty dollars out of every hundred dollars so that they could pay their c.e.o.'s hundreds of millions of dollars bill mcguire made over a billion dollars as the c.e.o. of united health care just about the same as stephen helmsley so right i mean this seems just fundamentally dysfunctional and u.s. needs to do what the rest of the world is successfully doing look at what we're getting for you know. according to the o.e.c.d. the organization of economic cooperation development these are the thirty four most developed nations the world the money we're spending on health care is is absolutely a disaster and what are we. again for there is life expectancy for example for japan is it with numbers across the bottom seventy five eighty three years or japan's at the top they have a national health care system switzerland is

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half a century the national institutes of health found more than half of all of the original research on pharmaceuticals and i don't want to go. it is true the united states government to get them involved in issues like health care they're going to they're going to mess it all up i mean the american government has to like i'd like united health care is doing a marvelous what i have in the desert wonderful innovation where you know people who feel particularly for the line and let me lay this out as it is to put every last penny on the line to invent things they have to be compensated for i have a very nice we're going to go backwards in time i agree i agree so the question is should they be compensated for ten years for twenty years or seventeen years i think that was really some of the their head of yours should have seen if you know how to be dishonest your guest says three years because what you see is that there's no significant advances until you have a little with zero with a v.c. innovation doesn't happen hello padlocks why are you the way you want to look at to be here fifty years from now having a great debate because we're going to only

of united health care telling me either and those are the two choices except that they're not you know i mean one of the points that i make in the book is this is not the only game this is not the only form of capitalism in town and around the world there are other forms of capitalism and you know we thought at the end of the cold war that we had sort of zeroed in on this sort of. this when francis fukuyama wrote about the end of history we had resolved all the problems anglo-american capitalism had won we leave it to the markets state capitalism soviet communism excuse me sir so soviet cap was communism have lost big state of lost what do we end up with instead we've ended up with competing capitals and almost monopolies i want to continue this conversation is this is this is more of tonight's conversations with great minds or david rothkopf coming up right after the break. you know sometimes you see a story. is if you understand it and then. some other part of it and realized. what you. can be alone if you know the real headline which none of them are the problem with the mainstream

of medicaid is where we give money to united health care so that their c.e.o. can make literally a million dollars and their last two c.e.o.'s that literally made a billion dollars what health insurance company should be making sure it's you know but now is that if this part of the health care act is so wonderful where all the plans today by the president the administration and there are more there should i pay should harrigan wish me well i'm just saying and i think that there are three pretty significant things that have happened we're coming up on whether or not it's constitutional you know yes i know it's going to be so supreme court's going to try that or maybe oh found out you know relate this to me coughing twice as much as no actually the c.e.o. said it's going to save an additional fifty billion dollars over the original estimates mitt romney said that and it's a lie right in the other lie is that they. this was the republican plan that passed they heritage foundation came up with this great idea to have. to have everybody buy aids or health insurance

barriers the interstate barriers so you want to order a high interest entirely to the tender mercies united health care i want to be exotic your medicare party everybody a bill we want to impose it on everyone that is correct ok but ok all right we have to wrap it up thank you all for it so far we'll come back with a quick fire with our more more of the rubble after the break and enter nice daily take how we do to get back some kindergarten principles in order to save and rebuild our economy. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i wanted to tell the truth. i confess and i am going to get a friend that i love rap and hip hop music that is pretty. cool he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the will without since he has played. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't know i'm sorry comes a big. about the big picture rubble our panel tonight matthew bishop senior editor at capital research center author of the book

of medicare it's where we give money to united health care so that their c.e.o. can make literally a billion dollars and their last two c.e.o.'s that literally made a billion dollars what health insurance companies should be making should be paid so you know what i want now is that if this part of the health care act is so wonderful where all the plans today i the president in the administration have been there more there should i should harrigan we should be growing up this thing i think that there are three pretty significant things that have happened we're coming up on whether or not it's constitutional you know it's going to be sort of this supreme court kind of ride that studio found out you know relate to me coughing twice as much as no actually the c.e.o. said it's going to save an additional fifty billion dollars over the original estimates mitt romney said that and it's a lie right the other lie is that the. the republican plan that passed they heritage foundation came up with this great idea so you have to have everybody buy into health insurance into p

the interstate barriers so you want to hold three high interest entirely to the tender mercies united health care and i want a big zarak your medicare party everybody of you want to impose it on everyone that is correct ok but ok all right we have to wrap it up thank you all for so far will come back with a quick fire with more more on the rubble after the break and into night steely take how we need to give back some kindergarten principles in order to save and rebuild our economy. we just put a picture of the need for those like nine years old and she told the truth. i think that's and i meant. that i was proud of him because he's sick and. he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without can see it simply. you know sometimes you see the story and the scene so you think you understand it and then you live something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . around the big picture rubble our panel tonight matthew senior editor at capital research center and author of the book subversi

my question and you alluded to united health, can you talk a little bit about how you envision insurance companies playing a role in this? >> really interesting. fit in some ways leading the charge. they're trying to come up -- we're in a crisis of cost of health care and they're trying to come up with remedies and they see for example a published yesterday united health a personalized medicine, white paper extensive report predicting that gen nomex was going to be transformed of of medicine and these pharmacy benefit managers like medco are pushing gino types to make for much more efficient use of drugs and matching up the drug that will work in the right person. we are starting to see more of this. the nicholas volcker case, millions of dollars that were extended to the final point, what about doing the sequencing of front. now we have health insurers pay for the sequencing much earlier which is a really good sign so we're starting to see the earliest phase, health-insurance get it. they might not be as important as the outcome for the patient but we see the cost factor. it looks promi

are going to be about cost and affordability and improving outcomes, and in that regard, i think united healthdwater front of opportunities in their companies and is in a very, very well position. >> we're watching a chart, and it is up 29%. is it not expensive now? >> what i'm really talking here is a multiyear story unfolding where this management team has really cobbled together a string of assets that i think are going to address what are the major issues in health care which is affordability, cost and quality outcomes. >> chris genre, good to see you, thank you for joining us today. >> coming up, we're talking about investing in america, we have one toy maker that derives 80% of its revenue from the u.s., but it's not mattel or hasbro. >> if you win the record jackpot tonight, should you take the lump sum or the annuityannuity? we have got the answer and why fed chairman ben bernanke is a factor in that ever so important decision. >>> i'm john fort and this is tech stop. >> space was marred to find. >> there was a competitive prostesz for the space that we're in right now and we had to tu

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half a century the national institutes of health fund more than half of all the original research on pharmaceuticals me and i will go to it is true the united states cover the good people involved it is just like health care they're going to they're going to mess it all up i mean the american government has to like i'd like you know health care is doing a marvelous what i have a dozen other full innovation like you know people who put their let me for the line and let me lay this out as it is that i put every last penny on the line to invent things they have to be compensated for i agree if we're going to go backwards in time i agree i agree so the question is should they be compensated for ten years for twenty years for seventeen years of. patent was really suffer through your head of yours should be with you in the head of it is thomas jefferson says

you have searched the world for a solution to this health care issue to try and map that onto the unitedve you found? >> well, you know, in taiwan, which is a free market country with a very vigorous free enterprise system, they had a totally free market health care system in the 1990s. they asked themselves we want to go from scratch and build a new one and they studied all the models in the world. we asked the guy who designed the taiwan health care system what did you learn from america? he said it was very easy. from america you learned how not to do it. >> wow. >> he said there was really nothing they could get -- borrow from the american case. our system is just a total mess. in taiwan, what they decided to do was they decided to go for a single insurer but private providers, so hospitals are private, the doctors are private, but you have a single essentially government-sponsored insurer. in other words, medicare. >> paid for by tax dollars? >> paid for by tax dollars. not surprisingly, they have the lowest health care costs in the world. they're up there, among the best in terms o