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Taking things into our own hands, thinking of creative ideas and hiring one more person and taking a little more risk is also creates positive energy in the whole workplace and all that generally hopefully results in better sales and better success for our business. >> yeah, one thing that has occurred to me as i was thinking about your idea, carla, the fact that we seem to have move frd the idea of our people, whatever the company is, being treated as our most important asset. our creative asse...

And saturday closing. but they are an incredible bargain relative to the size they deliver the mail. this is a big country. >> david: isnt the fact that you use the u.s. postal service for "forbes" because its subsidized by the taxpayer? its cheaper because it gets subsidization from the taxpayers. >> its subsidized but the subsidiaries come to a monopoly. when you have a monopoly without competition; therefore, you have -- >> david: what about ups and fedex? >> no. the fact they have to work ov...

Jenna: steven, do you think the tone really has nothing to do with what were seeing or the uncertainty out there? >> i think the tone has a lot to do with it. this administration, unfortunately, has been very hostile to business. theyve treated small businesses like atm machines to pay for the legislation that president obama has passed over the last year and a half. so when i talk to small business owners, they are hunkered down. its certainly part that theres not customers in the door, but par...

So to put $44,000 in the pocket of sally, one of our employees, we have to write checks for $74,000. >> and of the $74,000, then 33% or a third goes to the government. >> of sallys total value of her compensation which is $44,000 plus $12,000 in benefits, theres a 1/3 -- a 33% surtax by the government. e>> we hear all these businesses across the country are sitting on cash and wed like to hire. youre saying wed like to hire but cant afford to do it. >> its not that -- sally is a terrific employe...

You have to write a check for $74,000. >> and what it made me realize. this came as a shock to my employees. >> what did? >> the fact that theyre employment cost the company much more than they thought it did. how little they receive of the check we try to write them, and how much we contribute to their health care. we pay 80% of their health benefits. i dont think they were aware of the size. for sally its almost $10,000 a year from the company. $2,400 a year from her. i have no problem with th...

>> an estimated 6 million americans will travel arc broad for medical procedures this year. cnns dr. sanjay gupta follows a woman on her way to mexico for weight loss surgery. >> its 10:00 a.m. in san diego and sharon howel was just arriving on a flight from atlanta. shes not here for vacation, shes heading south to tijuana to have laparoscopic surgery. >> i was tempted to make the surgery in the states and the insurance company made it extremely difficult. >> reporter: so sharon decided to be a...

Structure is part of the issue, because again cost affects access, and if we can bring down the cost, then were going to actually start improving access. its also going to create more money within the health care system. if we expand the current broken system, we start throwing more money into a system that doesnt have the correct incentives or levers for actually managing the cost structure, well, then, the system is eventually going to fail. so, we need to be smarter about it and we need to en...

Tax-deductible manner, and now you are starting to focus the levers of inventivation, and i think it you will improve health care. and we need to start educating our patients about health care. we need to make sure were adding transparency in hospital costs and outcomes from morbidity and mortality and infection rates, we need to change it so it is more consumer friendly and driven. its the only arrangement where the consumer is removed from the cost structure of it. it adds more hazards. >> las...

Least all americans, especially young healthy americans, are carrying a catastrophic coverage plan. im not proposing what the president proposes, nowhere near what the president proposes nor what the senate passed or the house passed. what im saying is its not right, its not fair, to everybody paying for health insurance through their premium at work to have to bear the burden for people who can afford health insurance but dont get coverage for catastrophic events because then you end up, your i...

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