stories we are watching for you. the flood level off of the minnesota-north dakota dack border. the red river is expected to crest. it is holding up over the past week. let s hope that continues. volcano forcing others. democrats closed in on a historic vote on health care reform. what will the massive overhaul mean for the feture of medical care in this country. joining me now for a debate. dr. mark seagal and dr. cath lin lundon. back again on the day of the vote, tell us what it means. let s start there. let s say it passes today. president obama signs it into law. dr. seagull. what is the first thing we ll see as a practical matter when it comes as medical care in
bigger and community centers. that worked in massachusetts. massachusetts is not working. premiums are 20 or 30 percent up in massachusetts and primary care doctors are short in massachusetts. two percent of the graduating class go in primary care . by the way, prevention that she s talking about. losing weight and having a better life style and watching less television is not in the bill. that s not true. and let me and you prevention is good but takes a while. we can help you prevent heart disease . my question all along. primary care physicians don t make a lot of money. they are not best paid. fewer doctors are going in to primary crair care. how do you incent vise the ones that are there to take on more medicaid patients which is least lucrative patient? there is room in this bill
the time they got ill. that will stop immediately. we ll put more money in expanding the preventative care services. there will be more money available for medicaid and train primary care physician and giving incentives to under serviced areas and expansion of medicaid to increase payment to physicians temperature is 20 percent lower than medicare and that will be equal . more physicians will take medicaid and increased funding to community health centers and fewer people will get care in emergency room. we know from the kentucky study over 45 percent likely to die of cancer if you don t have insurance. go ahead. dr. segull. we are watching the rule being debated to set up the two final votes. we ll bring it to you. mr. #1: last point about er s. they are flooded with people who have insurance that they can overuse.
recent study from price water house cooper showed that people were two times as likely to use er if they have medicaid. our er s are overextended. i want everyone to be insured but the kind of insurance man dated is the one that is overused. you have an insurance card. take care of me now . no doctor there to take care of you. that is a problem. i know there are incentives for news to get in libe. who is going to take care of 32 million people? again, the other thing that is in the bill preventative care will 100% be covered. that is the nothe case right now. what is preventative care? we ll get to that in a second. dr. london who will take care of the 32 million people. they will go to someone with primary care. those practices will get