how much money has hhs paid united healthcare in qs as i today? the qs as i contract, we have spent about $400 million today on the building of the hub, if you would let me, i would get you specifics. is dynamic. i may have data that is a week or two old. is it on schedule? >> yes. >> have they met each of their targets set for the work? >> that is something i am happy to review with you in detail. i do not want to speak to each and every target. >> you would have no problems with us talking -- united healthcare talking to us about that as well? >> i have no problem with that. we would with -- we have done that in the past. >> has united healthcare/qs si done test runs of the data? >> yes. >> have there been any glitches discovered? >> i would have to go to the specifics of that. >> that low point in doing a test. >> the testings things, we made modifications and the system is working. testedunited healthcare nntis with the relevant agencies, such as social security administration? >> yes. >> have they tested the connections with homeland security

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so, the recommendation to the board is that we do maintain consistent benefits with our united healthcare plan. and, again, this is just our active and early retiree plan not our ppt plan [speaker not understood]. and the lifetime that will be lifted on all three products. >> commissioner scott. >> i'm in favor of the concept of doing this, but i want to talk a little bit about the process. to have this come up, you know, it happens to be something that was legally mandated and we've gone through a whole discussion with the health plans and so forth. and now this is brought to our attention after some months and now we're ready to close and getting ready to publish. so, i guess my question is do we have other regulatory issues that these plans need to be or that we need to screen for or the plans need to bring to our attention affirmatively. and if we don't have that kind of on our checklist, i would ask that we get it on there because it may be something of a larger consequence. and i know that your staff can't spend its time screening all of the stuff that comes from the department of m

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cheryl: we are business network, always watching the stocks of health insurance companies, united healthcarehey're saying forget it. they're not going to cover people in california and arizona if this doesn't work out and the presence favre maybe he does delay it. >> it cannot work out in his favor. i think the more pressure from the people and the legislators to say we have gone through the 2,000 pages. this is not going to work. at a certain point even the president has to admit his mistake. cheryl: always great to talk to you on the subject of health care. thank you. dennis: apple winds around. ahead we will tell you just how much of this patent battles are costing the economy. cheryl: san francisco's bart system is on track. why the california governor had to intervene in contract negotiations coming up an hour west coast minute. ♪ >> reporter: i'm tracy with your fox business brief. dow, s&p 500, nasdaq, and russell 2000 all down right now 55 points. all on the heels of the new report showing a better than expected lead on july is and non manufacturing. the july leading matches the year

they have a single source contract with united healthcare and qssi.divisions, to implement this data hub which see interestingly enough described as just a big router. but as they route this information and put it to hhs, irs, dhs, all these different agencies that are going to look at your healthcare information, look at your income and your verification information and, by the way, they will contract with equifax on verification of that income, then have you a lot of eyes that will be on your information and you're right, they're saying, oh, well, one day before this goes into effect, is when it is going to be ready for us to say it works or doesn't work. >> and when it comes to personal information, income, identity, you know, your medical conditions, those kinds of things, i would guess that most people would want to know that is 100% verified and secure before moving forward. there would be many delays through key parts of the law, moving forward. you actually have a bill calling for delay, further delay. but my understanding is that your bill wo

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of course you would say it is the united states responsibility not only to pay for healthcare and cleanuput also to look at the issues that were at hand and now currently we are dealing with not just weapons but energy problem so it's up to the united states to find an energy solution so we don't use dirty type of energy because nuclear power is not green and not renewable and not recycling and people call it a nuclear field chain but it's not a cycle. everybody calls it a nuclear field cycle but we call it a chain because every step of the chain has waste and it's not the water and contaminated houses, we saw a picture of a sheep with no hair and the loss of our plants. it's the plant nations, the animal nations and not just human kind but all of these, this life that is lost is incalculable. if you say combination, how do you compensate for losing a strain of plant when that was a type of medicine to our people. you really cannot pay for that type of compensation. so we need to stop all new mining, continue to cleanup and look at solutions for the future so we don't allow this to happen

i know for a fact that the ceo stephen helmsley of united healthcare, this gentleman three years agoe a salary of $102,471 and $.80 and that wasn't his yearly or monthly or even his weekly , which i would consider a very nice salary. host: we got your point. guest: the executive compensation to not just insurance companies but hospitals, large groups, everything is very high. and that is certainly an issue just as it is with every industry. host: does the affordable care act address that? guest: not really come except for the extent that it is putting cost pressure. but we haven't seen any effect on the bottom line of those. and as for the for profit, that is a valid point. but remember the majority of hospitals in this country are .onprofit institutions but the payment method is such that they behave just like for- profit. the readmissions reduction program that was put into the affordable care act, our headline for everybody on the screen is the second round of fines, $227 million. when does the next round of fines come? guest: next year in august. on that round, the maximum fines

. >> they enjoy a good health system, healthcare service from the united states, and many mothers are complaining because when they come over here, they were showing that one woman should have one room and one care take taking care of the baby, but when they come over here, once the baby is delivered, they have ten babies. they're crying every night, and only one caretaker to take care of ten mothers and all ten babies. >> he says one healthcare worker was so overworked, she dropped the baby and the baby died. then there are concerns over what the brokers represent and deliver. >> there are so many brokers in china competing for the business, so when they first came over here, it turned out that the living conditions are not what they promised in china. frankly, many of those brokers in china, they've never been to the united states, so they would present a misperception and they would get a five-star hotel foe photos and say you're going to stay here or a five-star hospital, here's what you're going to get. >> bonnie erbe: instead, what these women are getting are apartments such as

healthcare was not sustainable, and we still believe that, that the path on healthcare -- healthcare in the united states needs revision and still does. but we've been working on this now for a number of years. so the affordable care act really doesn't have the significant impact, because we already meet the test for affordability, for quality of what the act requires. so not a big change for us. >> have you been increasing the ranks of part time versus full time? >> that has not been a strategy related to healthcare. we're pleased that we give healthcare benefits. we've always been one that -- we've been improving our benefits in the healthcare area. we also had healthcare plan for our part-time associates that now meet the requirements of the affordable care act. >> mike, one of the issues that came up with some of the investors i was talking to, when i was preparing for this interview, is your succession. the company has identified two people that perhaps could be your successor. bill simon, who runs the u.s. -- who runs international, mcmillan. have you discussed the issue of succession with y

united states. obesity contributes to serious diseases like diabetes, costing the national healthcare system billions, but the beverage industry denies there is a link between their products and obesity-related diseases. >> it is a complex problem, one that cannot be resolved today, tomorrow, or with passing a simple measure. second, it is a problem with multiple causes, and you cannot single out just one cause. >> a number of mexican soda pop drinkers have sued beverage companies for making them sick. they say the company should put health warning labels on their products. >> onto the markets, and for the first day of this week, blue chips in frankfurt managed to lock in some decent gains. our correspondence sent us the summary of the trading session from the frankfurt stock exchange. >> finally, earnings reports managed to beat analyst expectations. germany's second-largest bank returned to profit during the last quarter, and the bank announced that it does not need a capital increase, despite the fact that the bank has increased its risk revision, which means the bank fears that further loans migh

united states. obesity contributes to serious diseases like diabetes, costing the national healthcare system billions, but the beverage industry denies there is a link between their products and obesity-related diseases. >> it is a complex problem, one that cannot be resolved today, tomorrow, or with passing a simple measure. second, it is a problem with multiple causes, and you cannot single out just one cause. >> a number of mexican soda pop drinkers have sued beverage companies for making them sick. they say the company should put health warning labels on their products. >> onto the markets, and for the first day of this week, blue chips in frankfurt managed to lock in some decent gains. our correspondence sent us the summary of the trading session from the frankfurt stock exchange. >> finally, earnings reports managed to beat analyst expectations. germany's second-largest bank returned to profit during the last quarter, and the bank announced that it does not need a capital increase, despite the fact that the bank has increased its risk revision, which means the bank fears that further loans migh

the best of the both worlds, uniting universal coverage and personal choice in healthcare. health all as c approach -- health policy approach. if this is not the american way, i do not know what is. at any have an is great to alternative, a market based alternative to other plants that have been floating around. it is interesting. you used the term universal coverage. that term has been used i another prominent health reform land. but we know that universal does not mean 100%. i'm sure there will be a question from the audience about one universal means in this case. in any event, let me introduce the panelists in the order they -- speak, and so, first b professor of pharmaceutical economics and policy at the university of southern ,alifornia, school of pharmacy the school of public policy. he well present the basic report and it will be followed up by dr. chandra, the director of the but policy and health policy research at the harvard kennedy school of government, and of the third of the eight authors who will have a formal speaking a physician who is an assistant profess

in 1960, the united states was paying five percent of gdp on healthcare costs, 10% by 2000, 15% by 2010, now 18%. without the affordable care act, we would hit 50% of gdp on healthcare by 2050. the genius and the brilliance behind the affordable care act is investing in primary and preventive care so we can keep americans healthier, so we won't need all of the -- these things that draw costs upward. and so, with all of that, we are here as ambassadors, from each of the districts to continue to encourage californians to enroll. it is my pleasure to introduce the senior state senator from san francisco. >> thank you very much. it is because i am senior that i have a little bit more history. several years ago, there was a bill that came before the senate health committee, it was a healthcare reform but it was unfortunately not the healthcare reform that i could support. back then it was -- we killed that bill. it was not single-payer. the fact is there was an individual mandate. now, we have this particular bill, and i think that it is incumbent upon all of us to do everything that we can

unite to consider the long path of progress and the road ahead. this is the 900-page document we call obamacare. it could change costs, coverage, and pretty much all of healthcare in america. my show sorts this all out. in fact, my staff has read the entire thing. which is probably more than what most members of congress can claim. we'll separate politics from policy, and just prescribe the facts. >> caller: the water -- it requires this new warning. >> the pressure tonight continues to build on syria as other nations demand an investigation into suspicions of a chemical weapons attack. you've seen those gruesome pictures that show hundreds of dead men, women and children and they have raised alarm. while other violence have claimed many more lives and many more made homeless. >>> the united nations reports that child refugees have reached 1 million and satellite images of the az zaaingstari refugee camp. >> the united nations says over half the syrian refugees in jordan are under the age of 18. after witnessing violence and multiple violence, anger at their situation according to aid agencies at jordan al zaatre refugee cax. causing significant psychological s

united dates is much more expensive than it is and any other country. from an mri to a hospital stay to childbirth. we spend a lot more on healthcare. e pay our physicians and a lot more. there's a lot of reasons for why the united states is so expensive. in terms of what the affordable care act does to address some of those things and whether or not , whichows up in premiums is many questions down the road -- i think it is an open question. lot of work, actually, i should say, in medicare, that has the opportunity to go a separate direction for containing healthcare costs in the united states. just one example i give you is there are hospitals in the u.s. because of the affordable care act that are penalized for what are considered unnecessary readmissions. one of my colleagues has done a where ifiting on this somebody leaves the hospital, and they come back within 30 days for something that the hospital really should have been able to handle, then they are penalized. we are seeing that this is having an effect on hospital behavior. there's other things in the affordable care act, particularly around medicare, that are forcing hospi

united dates is much more expensive than it is and any other country. from an mri to a hospital stay to childbirth. we spend a lot more on healthcare. we pay our physicians and a lot more. there's a lot of reasons for why the united states is so expensive. in terms of what the affordable care act does to address some of those things and whether or not that shows up in premiums, which is many questions down the road i think it is an open question. there's a lot of work, actually, i should say, in medicare, that has the opportunity to go a separate direction for containing healthcare costs in the united states. just one example i give you is there are hospitals in the u.s. because of the affordable care act that are penalized for what are considered unnecessary readmissions. one of my colleagues has done a lot of writing on this where if somebody leaves the hospital, and they come back within 30 days for something that the hospital really should have been able to handle, then they are penalized. we are seeing that this is having an effect on hospital behavior. there's other things in the affordable care act, particularly around medicar

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don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen but in his weekly address he described healthcare in the unitedght. so does this right come from the constitution? the bible? the curran? where does it come from? it was invented by the president of the democratic party. that means you had an obligation to pay for it. when did this arise? >> i don't see it as an additional amendment to the constitution. it's great to have health insurance but the second it's a right then it's nonnegotiable. when you wind up in the mode, that's where the president is now. the opponent isn't wrong. they're evil. that's scary when he talks that way. >> it's so republicans seem insensitive or republicans want americans to be dying in the streets and act like it's something happening now. if you go to the emergency room because you need care you're not going to be turned away. that's not the way the healthcare system works today. >> and the money will be showing up in clinics that you go to. this is about trying to educate americans about obamacare. they tried to get members on board to hire them and pitch it to young

how is the law changing the mental healthcare system in the united states? guest: good morning.hank you for having me on. there is great potential that the affordable care act could change the mental health system for the better. really there are two dimensions of it that could be very beneficial. first, the state insurance exchanges, the marketplaces, are required to cover mental health and substance because benefits on par at a parody level with all other medical disorders. that is really very positive development. it's the result of a federal law passed before the affordable care act. the question is, what does that mean and how is that going to play out in the states. i'm sure your viewers know states are right now working on developing their arrangements to the state, all the different insurance plans that might be available to people who purchase insurance. we really don't have enough information at this point about what specific benefits will be covered to say exactly what the impact is going to be but we're working very hard to make sure the benefits are adequate. there'