the united states health care is objectively the best in the world. that is a fact. one of our problems is we invested way too much as a percentage of our gross national product in the medical care. we spend more than any of their country in the world. whether how productive that it is rather argumentative. we have the best medical system. the united states says of the medical research in things like pharmaceuticals and those kind of things. any hospital has to treat anybody that comes in. that is just the way it is. here is the answer is -- interesting thing. ed canada was socializin medicine, you'll get treatment for cancer be making the six months later and you will die. you get treated. they come to united states. the cost is delaying the treatment. the united states has 10 times the technology in scene. we treat people very fast. we treat more people at in united states. whether that is good or bad, that is a different question. and maybe one of our economic problems. >> thank you so much. >> we are out of time. i think we can all appreciate this great speech. t

much or in this case four times as much on their health care every year you're going to have more people unable to afford insurance in the united states you're going to have health care in america is basically going to turn into a. elish dysfunctional system now if it's not already there to a large extent compared to the other countries in the world speaking of the other countries of the world i think that that's really an important thing we need to have a radical change in how we deliver health care in the united states the delivery mechanism right now is via the health insurance it's 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 they can 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 said 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. chording to the o.e.c.d. the the organization of economic cooperat

health care. the united states spends 17.6% of its ince on health care. no one else is even at 12%. they all insure everybody. and they have better outcomes than we do. so i think it would be a huge mistake to repeal this. i think that there will be continuing opportunies to improve it, but the net effect of this is going to be over the next five to ten years, is to bring our costs closer to the costs of our competitors. which is great for us economically. and that will make the debt much smaller than everybody thinks it's going to be now. >> you've done something very aggressive, put women and girls front and center. and you've got big money players coming here where the culture's very different. about women and girls. what do you hear from them? >> one of the most important things that's happening in the middle east today underneath the radar screen is a big women's movement. take saudi arabia, the most conservative of the cultures. for sevel years, tre have been more women than men in institutions of higher education. king abdullah himself built a university and named it after hi

the united states health care is objectively the best in the world. that is a fact. one of our problems is we invested way too much as a percentage of our gross national product in the medical care. we spend more than any of their country in the world. whether how productive that it is rather argumentative. we have the best medical system. the united states says of the medical research in things like pharmaceuticals and those kind of things. any hospital has to treat anybody that comes in. that is just the way it is. here is the answer is -- interesting thing. ed canada was socializin medicine, you'll get treatment for cancer be making the six months later and you will die. you get treated. they come to united states. the cost is delaying the treatment. the united states has 10 times the technology in scene. we treat people very fast. we treat more people at in united states. whether that is good or bad, that is a different question. and maybe one of our economic problems. >> thank you so much. >> we are out of time. i think we can all appreciate this great speech. th

your health care you're going to be waiting a long time i'm not suggesting that we well first of all i disagree with health care and that's the experience of every country except the united states government is the prime guarantor of health care and long time to get it you know it really sick sometimes you don't have it and i encourage you to visit other countries we must life liberty and the pursuit of happiness when you promise we may and honestly lately. believe breaded piece i mean these are two different conceptions one will give you something this is the definition of freedom to be just give up your or your freedom to us you believe that i have a natural right to protect myself with a firearm if i so choose. i'm not sure frankly. i don't he says of the freedoms we have in this country that we are free to own a firearm and have the same weapons of the government has because the government doesn't have the power to take them or you and i would say if you're if you're free to own. i don't that's not that's not fit their yeas it's a certain certainly defeated to protect yourself with or without a firearm i mean you have freedom to protect yourself with a surface to air missil

health, so much of it is intervention. if you look just in the united states, there are some states what are doing pretty well, for instance, washington, utah, alaska, iowa, vermont, which has universal health care and new hampshire, those are all states that are doing pretty well. but now look at the bottom of the list. the states that aren't doing as well. north carolina, maryland, mississippi, alabama and unfortunately, at the bottom of the heap washington, d.c., one little moment of perhaps brightness, south carolina which is always at the bottom of the list too, they put newborn health as an important benchmark, they're inching forward because they're putting people out in the field because they're trying to get ahead of the problem and not just acting after the fact, we have a crisis. but this is dismal and frankly appalling. >> we have to hope this gets everybody's attention, nancy, thank you, as always. >>> still ahead here on a wednesday night, have airline pilots gotten so used to being on autopilot that they sometimes lack the right stuff when they need it most? >>> and later, the four-day school week. can you blame a lot of parents for wondering who came up with this idea? all four o

health care. >> as we sit here today, there's probably 400,000 unfilled health care jobs around the united stateshese are radiology technicians. these are -- these are various support people. and we need to have a way to get construction workers who have the highest level of unemployment to go from being a construction worker to a radiology tech in a year. >> believe it or not, there are over 3 million job openings in america today. many workers simply lack the skills to qualify. our system of retraining is clearly not working. a recent study found that the benefits of the largest federal job training program were, quote, small or nonexistent, unquote. >> community colleges can be leveraged or other, you know, educational institutions not just for teaching young people how to do trades and skills, but another way is to retrain people in terms of what kind of skills are needed for the future. >> immelt is a registered republican. but his views on government's role in spurring job growth are not in lock step with the party's prevailing ideology. >> i believe in balance. does the debt deficit need t

united states. people like to make money in the united states. also, we have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world right now. i think we just surpassed japan. and also we have stringent health care safety regulations here in the united states. when you put all these variables together, it makes it very difficult to compete with other countries. >> how encouraging is it when you hear that the u.s. when it does manufacture things the quality is much better when it pertains to drugs or airplanes or even textiles. is that at least a push in the right direction? that perhaps we're manufacturing those things well, then those companies might be able to hire more americans too. >> yes. if we have great manufacturing standards here in the united states, like you said with those products, we can hire more americans, but the main reason why we can't hire more americans right now is several things. for example, we have a lot of people out there that do not have the skills and qualification to meet some of the top-grade jobs we need to hire in the united states. for example, microsoft is always going across seas trying to get the good employees, good engineers. and also, the change in the bu

care workers in a number of states in 2005. it moves on to the raging rattles between the california nurses who are now the anchor for national nurses united and seiu and healthcare facilities and a number of states, including california, nevada, ohio. the development of a reform movement, challenging leadership of seiu in which i personally thought was a long overdue and healthy development in 2008 lead at her good sal roselli, president of the united health care workers come the third-largest affiliate come 150,000 member local, very dynamic. the kind of organization that any union would've love to have as part of its union went uh w., with the help of number of people in the spring began to network, began to build a broader teamsters for democratic union style style of reform caucus within seiu, challenge the leadership at the san juan convention in puerto rico in 2008. they essentially set the stage for a leadership cracked down as the imposition quite literally of martial law. two years ago in california, and discern any other scid leaders removed 100 alleged leaders of uh w., basically occupied the local, removed hundreds of stewards and the second purc

the justice department today asked the united states supreme court to hurry up its consideration of the obama health care reform law. 26 states were challenging that law. some appeals courts have ruled it unconstitutional. others have said it is just fine. today's ruling, a petition -- today's petition, excuse me, could bring a final supreme court decision by next summer. >>> in politics today, still lots of buzz about new jersey governor chris christie's speech at the reagan presidential library last night. the governor did not jump into the 2012 presidential race and in fact, gave fresh indications he would not. yet in new hampshire today, mitt romney said it would be just fine if he did. >> chris is a great friend, great guy, colorful character. he is a governor i would love to see in more political settings. and who knows, maybe he'll get in. it would be fun if he got in. >>> the jury heard an insiders version of the day michael jackson died. ted rowlands in los angeles covering the trial. ted, take us inside the courtroom today. >> reporter: well, john, it was a fascinating day of details for the ju

states in 2005. it moves on to the raging battles between the california nurlses who are now the anchor for national nurses united and seiu and health care facilities in a number of states including california and nevada and ohio. um, the development of a reform movement challenging the leadership of seiu which i personally felt was a very long overdue and healthy development in 2008 led by our good friend sal roselli, the president of united health care workers west, the third largest seiu affiliate, 150,000-member local, very dynamic, the kind of organization that any union -- certainly cwa -- would have loved to have had as part of its union. when uhw with the help of a number of people in this room began to network, began to build a broader teamsters for democratic union style reform caucus within seiu, challenged the leadership at the san juan convention in puerto rico in 2008, they essentially set the stage for a leadership crackdown. the imposition, quite literally, of martial law two years ago in california. andy stern and the other seiu leaders removed 100 elected leaders of uhw, basically occupied the local, removed hundreds of

all small business group near the united states opposed to the health care overhaul plan to file a supremert appeal today, asking that the entire lobby overturned. a federal appeals court struck down the individual insurance requirement, but the national federation of independent business once more. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> american citizens forced from their homes, no trial, no charges. for this 10-year-old, wyoming's heart mountain was home. almost 70 years later, hear his story on american history tv on c-span3, from the identification of the heart mountain interpreted learning center. explore 19th century america during it's hard and discoveries from the smithsonian's new great american hall of wonders exhibit. for oral histories, in 1973, new york democrat elicit holman became the youngest woman ever elected to house -- to congress. she was voting to impeach president. but for the complete we can schedule at our website or four schedules in your in box, click the c-span alert button. >> this is a confession in front of a large and very influential aud

it also brought out the framework to bring down health- care costs. in the united statesld kuala a -- quality-wise. later today i will be speaking at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. we will be talking about efforts in surgery where surgical residency is were first initiated. we're proud of the quality of care one can get at hopkins. it is the best in the world. we have the best technology in the world. the problem is, is out of reach for more and more americans. they cannot afford it. they do not have access to that care. the affordable care act was an effort to say, let's bring the system available to all and bring down the cost of health care. how do we bring down the cost? we bring down the cost by having everyone in the system. we say that everyone will be covered by the system, so we no longer have people visiting emergency rooms to get health care because they have no insurance. by bringing down costs and bring everyone into the system. we also bring down costs by better use of health information technology. you might be surprised to learn that if you've visite

health care is skyrocketing and continuing to skyrocket. it has to be wrong in massachusetts, just as obama care is wrong for the united states. >> first of all, you're wrong. and let me explain why i said that, all right. it's not obama care. we had ours in place before obama had his. four years before. massachusetts health care is the most expensive in the nation. and it was before our bill and it was after. >> as you can see when mitt romney has to defend that health care to republican and conservative audiences, he has a hard time with it. one thing he is clearly made the decision to do, though, is own it. all right. republicans weren't exactly dismissing the president's job plan. that is until they heard he wanted new taxes to help pay for it. today it's house speaker john boehner's turn to lay out his party's prescription to get the economy back on track. kelly o'donnell is nbc news capitol hill correspondent. in the previews we've seen of boehner's speech, there certainly no talk of putting any money into the economy from the government. >> definitely not. i think when you talk about how the initial reaction to the president's plan as

they want him to recuse himself on any possible case that has to do with the health care law that the president of the united statesa said he would like decided before the 2012 election in the steps they have taken to do that. that remains to be unknown. republicans point out to the fact that elena kagan from the united states under the obama administration worked heavily and clarence thomas has to recuse himself because his wife works for a conservative group and is opposed to law. there is a lot of politics and an issue that played a long time in washington with a lot of folks saying here's a supreme court justice and his wife having these strong ties with conservative-leaning groups. can he be non-biased? that's a question only he knows. >> outside of washington as well. you see some of the blogs especially the liberal and progressive ones going after justice thomas. it is resonating beyond that town. reaction is poring in after an announcement from bank of america about their debit cards. starting early next year, the second largest bank plans to start charging a $5 monthly fee if they use their debit cards. th

health care? are there lessons from europe? >> why is it so difficult for it in the united states when it helps a lot of people. there is so much opposition against it. >> let's take health care as a specific example because a lot of people point to what we see in canada, sweden, what are the differences? why is it so different in our country compared to the makeup of europeans? >> because we are so different. we are very individualistic, very independent. we still believe that the best government is the least government. the government closest to the people. not necessarily in washington. i think the most important elected official in this country is the local supervisor. who represents a part of one county. you call them commissioners in some states. i don't want us to be like europe or a social welfare country. that is not who we have been and i hope we don't become that. i still have faith in the individual, but i have minimum faith in a government that decides where, socially, money should be spent. i like people to decide on their own money. like on education. people want us to spend more money from the fe

shutting down every aspect of domestic energy in the united states they're going to have if you actually are going to leave if that's how absolute health care costs are going to go a lot of companies hire people because there's demand for the top of the i don't know i don't know how often you talk to companies out there that want to hire people think about how i thought i was going easy and i have. every day that i had brought is over to us and many people in generated more than a quarter of a billion dollars and you want to and you want to do business certainly in your i never hear about certainly quote i did about was customer shoot it down the road you were looking down the road at what your costs were going to be and how you can manage those costs down the road and if your energy your household your customers i think absolutely i have ok then you know that it's customers that make your business and if your customers are going to have a higher you tom if your customers don't have any money to spend especially in that in those business to business transactions that are out there if they don't have any money to spend because they're there

actually lured it in becoming the united states by sending him a government now quit to help them take advantage of america's federal retirement insurance and health care programs. i mean just anything that the koch brothers do or have done in the last thirty years shock you at this point like they really do anything where you are like what the koch brothers did why well i just you know what there's hypocrisy and and there's like really really bad doctor saying it's like come on the guy that is going to come over and he's everyone his economic theories tell him that they don't need the government is going to be lured by looking at government pamphlets absurd it's funny because a lot of conservatism conservatives are leveling a similar critique of liberals right now being like oh if you want higher taxes nothing stopping you from descending into check yourself to the government and you know you just do it like that so there's not a lot of difference here being well you know i hate social security but you know as long as it's there i don't know why i want fair taxes i want people who aren't paying taxes to pay their fair share i don't think that necessar

onerous, were people in a global environment say gosh, why am i sitting in the united states and paid 35%? i can't pay health care costs in office. i might as well take my business elsewhere. so it is a sign talents here. my personal discussion of the book as i do think the united states does run the risk of ending up in a situation where too many people in the wagon. i have to say it's not only that there are too many people, but a lot of people in the wagon don't want to be in the wagon. they would rather be out of the wagon, pulling the wagon. unfortunately, there have incentivize to do what they want to do and that is very problematic. >> host: i sometimes think of the welfare state like flypaper. they get stuck and become independent. even though they want to climb the ladder, government policies are friendly. i may ask about differences between welfare states because imagine scandinavian countries do it better. and that certainly seems to be the case. if you look at tensions in sweden, the age at which you can retire is actually tied to average life expectancy. you may very well be in the case 20 years from

united states from both parties the digital democrats and republicans? the point in the campaign where obama wants a social plan like health care. >> are you saying there are lessons from europe? >> why is it so difficult to have one in the united states? something that helps a lot of people and so much opposition here against it. >> let's take health care as one specific to that because a lot of people point to what we see in canada and sweden and other european countries. what are the difference? why is something like that so different in our country compared to the makeup of europeans? >> because we are so different. americans are very individualistic and independent. we believe the best government is least government. the best government is closest to the people. not necessarily in washington. the most important elected official in this country is the local supervisor who represents part of one county. he is a commissioner in some states. i don't want us to be like europe. i don't want us to be a social welfare country. that is not who we have been and i hope we don't become that. i still have faith in the individual but i have minimum faith in the gov

little bit before we get into the health care dialogue, let's talk about how has recovery evolved throughout the years? there's been a very positive change in the united states, which i'll just give a personal story. early in my career when i would give a talk about alcoholics anonymous i would get angry emails from people saying, "that's a bad organization, i got better in treatment." and then i'd give a talk about methadone and people saying, "oh, methadone's terrible, you should tell people to do this in that way." it was like a bunch of little battling sects. and what's changed that's really exciting is that there's this collective sense of we need to honor all pathways to recovery. and i think csat actually deserves a lot of credit for that with the national summit on recovery. when people stood up there with people who had recovered "the wrong way" and said, "this is not my pathway, but i honor and accept that." that's when the recovery movement started to become a force because if you don't divide yourself then you have the ability to influence lots of other people and that's very important because this is a health problem and nobody ever says about c

health care around the world. it is great because the younger generation is now devoted to and committed to this great cause. the private sector has a lot to do. the united states government also has a lot to do. this work has got to continue. i know that we face a lot of challenges. we faced challenges of joblessness, and education system that is not quite working, if immigration policies and not quite working, we face deficits and debts and uncertainty about economic future. but let us never forgets the premise that our own security is linked to the well-being of others. and let us never forget, too, that out of chaos comes danger. the united states of america must lead. we must lead because it is important that the most compassionate and the most generous and the freest company -- country on the face of the earth would be the most powerful. we do not have an option to retire to take a sabbatical from leadership in the international community and in the world. if we do, one of two things will happen. there will be chaos. without leadership, there will be chaos. that is dangerous. it is quite possible that if we do not lead, somebody else will. perhaps it will

health care to the military. take a look. >> devastating as our economy is, with the policies of barack obama, i think that he is actually weakened us militarily and with the united states' presence globally. >> this is a president so committed to class warfare and bureaucratic socialism that he can't possibly be effective in jobs. >> on day one, as the president of the united states, that executive order will be signed and obama care will be wiped out as much as it can be. >> on day one, if i'm elected president, is direct my secretary of health and human services to put out an executive order grant being a waiver from obama care to all 50 states. it is bad law. it will not work. >> once obama care is repealed -- and it will be -- the question will then be, what do we do now? >> obama care is killing jobs. >> this country has a bright future. our president doesn't understand how the economy works. >> don't forget, the day that president obama took office gasoline was $1.79 a gallon. >> john king, gloria borger, paul begala and eric ericson, john. we heard bachmann, her response to the president. she said she wasn't there to answer question bz the campaign, that she was

in the united states who claim it's a commercial secret but water laced with chemicals ends up in drinking water so shale gas development poses a serious threat to the environment and health care apart from being seen as unsafe it is also described by many as too expensive and can hardly replace natural gas. we're watching the situation and we think that locally it's very viable but it will remain a local gas supply it's impossible to extract gas at a loss for long and if you look at the shield get suppliers right now you'll see that most of them are losing money experts say shale gas reserves ukraine may be the biggest in europe but it may take up to eight decades to develop them never the last key of claims next year it wants less russian gas slashing the amount it plans to buy by more than a third a move that violates the two thousand and nine deal and could see europe's energy supplies once again on shaky ground another tussle over gas price between kiev and moscow left many warring in europe that there will be another gas war and another disruption of supplies into the european continent but the russian energy minister reassured that the events of two thousand and nine wi

health care, to the military. take a look. >> devastating as our economy is, with the policies of barack obama, i think that he is actually weakened us militarily and with the united statesent so committed to class warfare and so committed to bureaucratic socialism that he can't possibly be effective in jobs. >> on day one, as the president of the united states, that executive order will be signed and obama care will be wiped out as much as it can be. >> on day one, if i'm elected president, is direct my secretary of health and human services to put out an executive order granting a waiver from obama care to all 50 says the. it is bad law. it will not work. >> once obama care is repealed, and it will be, the question will then be, what do we do now? >> obama care is killing jobs. >> this country has a bright future. our president doesn't understand how the economy works. >> don't forget, the day that president obama took office gasoline was $1.79 a gallon. >> with us again, john king, host of "general king usa," chief political an xwlialyst go borger, democratic strategist paul begala and eric ericson. we heard bachmann, her response to the president. she said she wasn't

united states house of representatives. >> sorry, what did you say? >> in the last year of her life jean faced ballooning health care to her disability payments. the sue party thinks that's a load of fooey. >> joining me, the emmy award winning emmy host jane lynch. thanks very much for coming in. >> happy. >> happy accidents. you've had more happy accidents than anyone -- since we first met years ago in that bar in west hollywood. >> right. >> it was actually at a party, one of those sunday night elward screening parties. you have had more happy accidents than anyone i know. >> actually we met when you were doing the "west wing." i had a tiny, tiny, tiny part. i would forgive you if you didn't remember meeting me. >> i accept your forgiveness. >> yes, a lot has happened. it's been a full four, five years. it's been crazy. >> it's -- now, sue sylvester's candidacy for the house of representatives -- >> yes. >> i'm getting echos here. you insist it's not a tea party character. she's doing something else. she's going her own way? >> i really don't -- whatever serves sue sylvester is what the sue sylvester american lib

would repeal president barack obama's health care program, reinforcement federal tax code and shrink the federal government. >>> it was a close call but the united states senate managed to avoid another park shutdown of the faa. the senate yesterday beat the deadline to approve a stopgap transportation bill. it extends the faa's operating authority through january. >>> defense secretary leon panetta has a warning for congress about what might happen if it fails to agree on a long term debt ceiling plan. he says it would trigger more than $# million in cuts to the pentagon. the deadline is set for november 23. >>> it comes as the number of people filing for unemployment jumps to its highest level in three months. it's really bad in california. unemployment in the san francisco and san jose metro areas is at about 10%. in sacramento it's more than 12% in. stockton a whopping 16.6%. tough times. >>> from hawaii to california, why hundreds of donkeys are being shipped to california today. >>> it's unreal to see yourself like that. >> he cheated death and fought biker with who was trapped under a burning car is speaking out. what it was like watching strang

obviously a health-care bill that was passed and will provide insurance for 30 million uninsured americans. an accomplishment that was 100 years in the making. 100 years of effort here in the united states that failed until this president working with congress was able to pass it. that is an accomplishment. there are people who certainly support health-care reform very passionately that feel it was not perfect. i think the point he is making is we cannot lead perfection, the failure to reach and did absolutely everything we want schatzker -- overshadow the fact that great things have been accomplished and so much more work needs to be done. that is the essential message you is bringing to that group and many others. >> can i get you to comment on the unemployment claims numbers that shows the number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, an encouraging sign that layoffs may be easing. >> i would say there is always a lot of volatility in the weekly numbers, so we do not react much to one week's results. when we have positive signs, those are obviously good and we welcome them, but i have to acknowledge up front a certain amount of volatility in that particular n

beg for safety goggles, for bathroom break for raise health care or a pension or whether workers have that basic human rights and the united states is still a member of the nlrb. this is the right we recognize, to come together at the workplace and to bargain together instead of coming as an individual. those protections are important to workers. we have to turn around the question and not ask why should public sector workers have a pension or health care if i don't? the question is not how do i take it away from the public sector work ez. the question is why doesn't everybody in america have a pension and health care? isn't that something as a wealthy industrialized country we have to be able to do. we have to ask ourselves on labor day-- and happy labor day by the way-- what kind of a country are we? what are our values? i think we want to value working people and the middle class. we've seen too many of the policies over the last couple of decades take us in the wrong direction where the rich are getting richer, the corporations are more powerful. they're using their political power as steve said to bust unions. they're hiring