te o told the story to them and here dead spin comes out and kind of viewed as a rogue site. here is our investigation, there was no funeral, no girl, no parents of the girl. why didn t anyone fact check this. say to the journalist, if a 21-year-old guy tells me his girlfriend, am i supposed to go to the funeral and the corpse and why would say dead spin report to check the facts. greta: the plot thickens on this one and we ll see what comes up. this blows lance armstrong out of the water. greta: this is the best thing that happened to lance armstrong, this should be his hero. send a letter to manti te o, thank you, greta. greta: the ceo of whole foods is now blasting president obama. john mackie comparing the president s health care law to fascism and says that the coverage requirements are adding new and unfair costs to businesses and tomorrow, right
to hold on to that ability to help know to innovate and create new ideas and approaches. and, we need a competitive marketplace. how do we hold on to that ability? guest: we hold on to it by ensuring that regulations are not such we are creating so many disincentives for entrepreneurs that they are not willing to take a risk. when you take risk taking impossible like dodd-frank because of the coverage requirements and ratio requirements you cannot get a long from a bank as a small business person. my family business could not have gotten off the ground with today s environment of dodd-frank so we need an environment that speaks to creativity and accepts risk and that allow as small business person and entrepreneur to succeed. before i let you go we have-a minute, tell us your plan for taxes. guest: tax reform endorsed
reporter: they said this was finger pointing and missed opportunity to streppen the regulatory system. bret: mike, thank you. president obama answered online questions in a session on youtube today. u.p.i. reports that of the almost 140 thousand questions submitted the top ten were on one subject. drugs, legalizing them and stopping the war against them. president obama did address that saying he is not in favor of legalization. the number of waivers granted by the obama administration to the annual coverage requirements in its healthcare law has risen from 222 to 729. the health and human services department has just posted the latest figures. many organizations have said if they were not granted exemptions, they would have to drop coverage for their employees. president obama said this week that he is willing to work with congress on changes to the healthcare law. chief washington correspondent jim angle reports lawmakers are already taking him up on
reporter: they said this was finger pointing and missed opportunity to streppen the regulatory system. bret: mike, thank you. president obama answered online questions in a session on youtube today. u.p.i. reports that of the almost 140 thousand questions submitted the top ten were on one subject. drugs, legalizing them and stopping the war against them. president obama did address that saying he is not in favor of legalization. the number of waivers granted by the obama administration to the annual coverage requirements in its healthcare law has risen from 222 to 729. the health and human services department has just posted the latest figures. many organizations have said if they were not granted exemptions, they would have to drop coverage for their employees. president obama said this week that he is willing to work with congress on changes to the healthcare law. chief washington correspondent jim angle reports lawmakers are already taking him up on
underlying costs. costs are going up because providers are charging more, number one. a number of our members are seeing 40, 50, 60 percent increases. two, people buying coverage individually in a bad economy have decided for their economic reasons they sometimes is no longer afford it, that means the cost to people in the pool goes up because it s the people who have the highest cost who stay in. and then third, we re adding new benefits, starting september 23rd, under the legislation, and new benefits follow cost. bill: so your organization do you support you re not for this health care reform law? i mean, just based on that answer i get that impression. we ve had some very strong concerns about the cost of the legislation. we ve been very supportive of the concept of bringing everybody into the system. we have to get everybody covered. but the point is how to do that as affordably as possible. our members are working very, very hard to try to do things as affordably as possibl