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Us. im more worried about the country than i am about the state. im more worried about the impact of obamacare on our cost structure than i am about the state tax issues locally. i have more concerns about our principle desire is stimulate employment which i think is the number one issue that the country faces, that people arent dealing with. the state is still very pro creating employment here. its been good for us. but i think obamacare is the critical issue. i mean, you know, this whole issue...

The gripe that the increase is so much they could hire someone? >> in the course of what we do, we work with small companies that tend to have 25 to 250 to 500 employees. i talked to a ceo of a company that has 300 to 400 employees and the way theyre going to help mitigate cost and to maintain their cost structure is to pass on higher deductibles to employee ee eees so theyll endh an increase and that affects if businesses can hire and it impacts familys pocketbooks if they are paying added dedu...

>> do you hear from other small business owners that they have the same kind of gripe that they could have hired somebody? >> in the course of what we do, we work with small companies that tend to have 25 to 250 to 500 employees. and in their case theyre looking at a 31% increase on their health care costs. the way theyre going to help mitigate that and maintain their cost structure is to pass on higher deductibles to employees. so in this particular businesss case, theyre going to end up with a...

Necessarily going to make a brand thrive, i think those days are past. >> as far as the future of the daily beast, theres a memo to the staff i cant make promises about the future. while tina is moving on to create a company where shes going to do live conferences still has a lot of talented writers and reporters, even though many people have left. can it sur vovive without her? >> one of the things i appreciated about tina is she tried not to make the daily beast completely independent on her p...

A vacuum and that thats necessarily going to make a brand thrive, i think those days are past. >> as far as the future of the daily beast, theres a memo to the staff i cant make promises about the future. while tina is moving on to create a company where shes going to do live conferences still has a lot of talented writers and reporters, even though many people have left. can it sur vovive without her? >> one of the things i appreciated about tina is she tried not to make the daily beast complet...

Necessarily going to make a brand thrive, i think those days are past. >> as far as the future of the daily beast, theres a memo to the staff i cant make promises about the future. while tina is moving on to create a company where shes going to do live conferences still has a lot of talented writers and reporters, even though many people have left. can it sur vovive without her? >> one of the things i appreciated about tina is she tried not to make the daily beast completely independent on her p...

Kind of fast food establishments like starbucks, and this consistency helps maintain the quality of the product. but shultz says the health care costs are likely going to rise because of this. he doesnt say if he was sure about how much, but he did acknowledged a rise. the interesting question mark is well see if the company can absorb the costs or pass it on to consumers. though starbucks does tell us theres no direct correlation between the health care costs and prices, that lots of input into...

Ink on his fingers but its from being fingerprinted for all that tennessee moonshining. >> the revenuing. >> did you read newspapers? do you hold -- >> i get the sunday "new york times." i read the sunday "new york times." >> for kicks. >> a paper like "the boston globe" where would we have been with the boston marathon bomber without the team of reporters they had. >> here it is, whats happened is we have -- we have newsrooms, we have magazine structures, economically set for a different era. a...

A spokesman for keck hospital told the new york times, academic medical centers have a higher cost structure. and the vice president of the american hospital association told the washington post that the official bill called the charge master rate isnt always paid in full. quote, the charge master, my goodness, the charge master can be confusing because it is highly variable and generally not what a consumer would pay. even an uninsured person isnt always paying the charge master rate. well go t...

About the affordable care act was misfire in many respects. theres two other things that are more important that are not being addressed. first is health and wellness. we need more personal responsibility. to solve our healthcare crisis if we took better care and if they didnt focus on the cost structure, to get more to a primary care home model, primary carry relationship. so jumped to much -- >> neil: you chris christie and new jersey, opposed to it because they figured if they look at the dol...