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health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. whats more, we dont really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. its more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, and in a "time" magazine essay, were going to take you around the world to study ...

no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. whats more, we dont really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. its more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, and in a "time" magazine essay, were going to take you around the world to study health care systems in is other count...

Well, finally this half hour the amazing ipad. since it came out, we have been talking about all of the apps, the cool things that come along with an ipad, if you can get one. >> thats right. its hard to get your hands on one, but once you do, it seems like its a pretty cool device and in this next story proves that the ipad is so much more than that. wait until you hear what it did for a young boy. casey frond. of ktbs-tv in shreveport fills us in. >> reporter: amy hammonds is very involved in ...

Excited to be amongst the first to get this new apple device. they agree its a real cool device but experts question is it a device that people have to have? >> you bring up younger, and maybe a lot of people are there because the price is a little more appealing, right? >> i guess so. the first rollout is the lesser one, about 500 bucks, and the way if i plus one, 800 bucks, still a lot of money in a recession. >> absolutely. >> especially for what you called correctly a gadget. its supposed to...

That address had names, addresses, birthdays, and it also had social security numbers with that. and as you know, that can make for a lot of things to go wrong. so thats why theres so much need to pay attention to this one. >> am i hearing this right? that somebody -- maybe somebody just set it down somewhere, and somebody came along and picked it up? did the person who picked it up possibly even know what they were getting? >> thats my big question, is they may have just thought, hey, thats a c...