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Dangerous jobs that pay more such as working in this an oil field or a coal mine or a steel mill. there is one very interesting fact here that many analysts find persuasive, megyn. that is that young women who do not have children actually make more money than men of the same age. >> women who have never been married and never have had children earn more in the workplace than men. that is, they work 117% of what men earn in the workplace. >> reporter: now, farrell, who was once on the board of t...

The employee, you know, you get on the government exchange or, you know, the exchanges, but then you get sort of a kickback from your employer so you dont object. is that likely? >> i think youll have to pay taxes on some of that kickback, but moreover, it would still put that pressure on the government system. the federal deficit cant handle this kind of stampede, and as a consequence therell be pressure to create a government alternative with regulated prices and rationed care, and itll look a...

That the current system isnt going to get it done, that we will have to move toward single-payer? is. >> absolutely. because the federal government wont with able to afford the subsidies its promising. think about it, a family of four with an income of $87,000 a year will qualify for some subsidy. the sheer number of people that are going to qualify would make this so burdensome for the government that they simply wouldnt be able to let them go to aetna or somebody like that. also these folks wi...

Al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula have been designing body bombs that contain, as i said, no metal parts. so this has been a concern for some time. meantime, police in new york city have in place a security surge of their own, keeping a very close eye on all key transportation hubs in the city. there are a number of places that people can come into or out of new york city, the airports, train stations, the bus depot and the like. just in case terrorists want to try to stage some kind of attack m...

Pass in my pocket, and i was pulled over because on that machine that piece of paper showed up. so how could we not detect body bombs even if theyre not made of metal? >> as you know, jamie, because you travel in lots of different airports, different airports have different systems. not every airport has got the full-body scanning yet, so thats one issue there. but i know we hear these stories and they sound scary and they are scary, but its good to keep the big picture in mind. this is the natu...

In a fox news exclusive. jim? >> reporter: hello, megyn. the new survey finds the new health care law created some perverse incentives for employers to drop their insurance plans. listen. >> in a pure dollars and cents standpoint, it could not be more clear. you save a lot of money, hundreds of millions of dollars for some of these companies, by no longer providing coverage. >> reporter: now, republicans on the house ways and means committee surveyed the fortune 100 companies about their health ...

Recruiting package is employer-sponsored health care? >> lets look at the major automobile companies. they are no longer offering their white collar employees any kind of reasonable pension benefits because they couldnt afford to. if your competitors drop health care because theyre pressed in a business cycle and so they drop health care, once theyve dropped it, theyve dropped it. then they have lower costs, youll be bound to follow suit as well, and before you know it, competition -- if anybody...

Health care law, but this $2,000 fine per employee if you dont have health insurance, whats to prevent congress from raising that and making it $10,000? >> well, they could. in fact, one of the bigger worries is if you put people on the exchanges, then what happens to the exchanges when the financing of the health care law starts to go the other way, starts to get much, much bigger than people thought? one of the worries is that you could have a reduction in benefits, that it would turn out to b...

Worker and offer to share part of the savings by paying higher wages making it attractive to the workers as well as employers. the higher cost of subsidies, though, would fall on the taxpayers. megyn? megyn: jim, thank you. joining me now for more on this, peter morici, former chief economist for the u.s. international trade commission. peter, its a study that was commissioned by the republicans, the house ways and means committee. does that mean they have their thumb on the scale in terms of ge...

Literally. well tell you about a brand new initiative. the second hour of "happening now" starts right now. jamie: rick, thanks so much. a lot of people thinking about saving lives today, and theres a new report thats raising fears that millions of working americans could end up being moved into a government health exchange. thats another big story were following. im jamie colby. jon: and im jon scott. "happening now" in washington, a report making the rounds on capitol hill looking at the finan...