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The largest jackpot so far this year. the next drawing will. wednesday and right after the showily be getting a ticket. another story caught our mind. a lot of people talking about. called cost plus 50. the idea is president trump is floating a new idea that u.s. allies should pay for the cost of basically the united states protecting them. heres a headline in "the washington post." trump invokes new demand for ebbing tracting billions of dollars from allies. under the formula countries would ...

This guilty that expose 6 million medicare beneficiaries with private information? >> i am aware of that, sir. my understanding is they basically inherited a contract from another contractor and they did not have initially the various provisions in place. they immediately fixed it in the transition and they did report that to us. >> is there a cost-plus to do what they are doing and correct them and make sure it doesnt happen again? >> that was corrected immediately and absolutely there is a pro...

>> why should you have to foot the bill for someone who is none of those things? >> you dont. you dont. and the first problem is these are not risk tools. the insurance business in health care is cost plus. they dont actually care how sick you are or how well you are. theres no risk. they know exactly what its going to cost them every year. so everyone is already paying their way. the second thing is, as a physician, people dont like to be unhealthy. they like to have -- they like to feel good a...

Theyre taking steps that are saving costs for all employees. the penalty is youre flipping that logic to have everyone take action. >> why should you have to foot the bill for someone who is none of those things? >> you dont. you dont. and the first problem is these are not risk tools. the insurance business in health care is cost plus. they dont actually care how sick you are or how well you are. theres no risk. they know exactly what its going to cost them every year. so everyone is already pa...