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The health care system? >> oh, theyre giving us incredible examples. i thought a 2,000 tooshl brush was bad. theyre giving some that are in the same ballpark. im going to get right to it and tell you what two of our readers told us. one of our readers told us about their child being in the hospital who needed two ccs of liquid tylenol. the price tag when they got the bill, $128. for those two ccs of tylenol. and heres another one. a baby was born in the hospital, a little girl, and she used a pa...

More than $1,300 of pacifiers. i know youre a mom, and you know thats not how much you pay for a pacifier. one of my favorite -- >> although when youre desperate and you forgot yours, you might be tempted. but, no, thats just ridiculous. >> ive been willing to pay $121 but ive never done it. >> wed asked people throughout the series. we got a person who wrote in who says all i can say is we need a standardized price across the board and no one can set prices that are as outrageous as those binki...

Outrageous costs connected with health care this week. well, today its your turn. cnns consider medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is back with some responses to her series health care prescription for waste. a lot of folks have been weighing in on this one. >> everyone seems to have a story of some crazy line item in their hospital bill, its amazing. hundreds of people wrote in saying you wouldnt believe what i got charged for, so lets get to it and show you some examples. we got a comment o...

Cost, $128. >> are you kidding me? >> thats what the viewer told us. $128 for two ccs of tylenols. you recognize this? >> the binkkys. >> some say it is worth their weight in gold. because it will calm the child down. but this 21 one is worth $121. >> come on. >> $121. and to make it worse when it falls on the hospital floor, the nurse doesnt wash it off, they open up a new one, so this child had 11 pacifiers and so the bill, came to -- >> come on! >> -- $1,331 for pacifiers for this childs hosp...

Baby used 11 pacifiers because at hospitals when they fall on the floor, they throw them away so this baby used 11 pacifiers. 11 pacifiers, yes, i am not kidding you, $1,331 according to the viewer who wrote in. when you do the math, 121 times 11. isnt that crazy? you want to hear my favorite. a man went into the hospital and was charged for a pap smear. yeah. >> all righty. >> you cant do one on a man, it just doesnt work. >> well, weve been getting e-mails from people on cnn.com and this one s...

Hamburger and other restaurants get away with $30 for a hamburger. if the hospital can find someone whos going to pay $121 for a pacifier, they will do it. >> theyre not asking if theyd do it, they just send them the bill. >> thats right, they do and theres a lot of negotiating going on. we talked to the american hospital association and they said, look, its not like going to a drugstore and getting a pacifier. were wrapping in all sorts of things, electricity, nurses salaries, that new mri mach...

>> glenn: back to our little story about the little girl with no high speed internet access, 4% of americ americans. we have to solve this. they want to give her high-speed access, and i thought housing or electricity and universal insurance for her weirdly shaped horse. its all guaranteed in the constitution. a lot of people say cmon, thats ridiculous. really? when is the last time you read the constitution? article 126. bring it up here. you are ensured the right to unite in trade unions. arti...

>> glenn: back to our little story about the little girl with no high speed internet access, 4% of americ americans. we have to solve this. they want to give her high-speed access, and i thought housing or electricity and universal insurance for her weirdly shaped horse. its all guaranteed in the constitution. a lot of people say cmon, thats ridiculous. really? when is the last time you read the constitution? article 126. bring it up here. you are ensured the right to unite in trade unions. arti...

Some blueprints on how to get inside of this partially collapsed building to try to rescue some people. and while you look at this, i just wanted to share some numbers with you. apparently, according to this architect, there were 121 people in the building. 48 were still inside. eight were confirmed dead. but 68 walked out alive. and as so many people search for their loved ones amid the rubble and in some cases in the flooded neighborhoods, i have another story out of a small coastal town out o...

So encouraging visuals coming out of there. also, take a look at this. this is something that we just saw off of cnn chile, our sister network. this is an architect. and we have video of this architect showing some rescue workers, also in concepcion, some blueprints on how to get inside of this partially collapsed building to try to rescue some people. and while you look at this, i just wanted to share some numbers with you. apparently, according to this architect, there were 121 people in the b...