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And its easy to see how this situation could make prices go even higher, especially on the energy front. oil prices hitting $99.50 a barrel this morning before backing off. remember, gasoline prices here in the united states are already high. seven year high of $3.53 a gallon. up 20 cents in just the past month, we have to also look at the stock market. the dow taken a hit this morning. u.s. markets retreating. the dow down almost 300 points. 0.9%. kate, i think given all the wide reaching conse...

Big impact on american consumers, that does not seem to be the case and that seems to be the message from the market, too, that brent was at 99.50 early tuesday. its backed off to $98.15 right now. gas prices, which moved, theyre up, too, the national average hitting $3.54 a gallon. that is a fresh 7-year high of 27 cents in a month. theyll go even higher if oil prices do. i think the question is what comes next. because white house officials said additional sanctions could come at any moment if...

He painstakingly went through the actual bills that hospitals put out and found they charge massively for routine procedures and medicine. he found for example a routine blood test was billed to patients at a hospital at the rate of $199.50. medicare pays for that same test $13.94. he agrees that the health care industry is not a real market but for different reasons than many on the right. he says there is so much confusion, so many monopolys and disinformation it cannot function as one. most i...

Put out and found that they charge massively for routine procedures and medicine. he found, for example, a routine blood test was billed to patients at a hospital at the rate of 199.50. medicare pays for that same test, $13.94. americas health care industry is not a real market, but for different reasons than many on the right. he says that there is so many monopolies and so much disinformation that it cannot function as one. most important, he says, is that the consumer, when buying health care...

Pretoria, south africa. it was inside a short time ago that a judge granted bail to olympic runner oscar pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend on valentines day, so we will let you know when we see oscar pistorius. in the meantime, i think everybodys got a story about an expensive doctors visit or hospital bill, but "time" magazines new cover story "bitter pill, why amedical bill are killing us" breaks down the numbers. what they found is truly shocking. let me just give you on...

National average up to $3.23 a gallon, up 8 cents in a week. you can blame all of this on unrest in libya and worries about long-term supply disruptions and that could lead to inflation here at home. air fares keep going up, too. fare compare says united had a fuel is your charge yesterday and expect that to be matched by other major airlines. as the stocks, we are expecting to see -- the opening bell rings. lots of red is expected for the third day in a row. oil prices, by the way, are kind of ...