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And remember, in maryland, they only mark up prices by 21%. by wait, it gets even worse. just cross the line into pennsylvania and they have a 277% mark-up. this heart attack is getting very expensive. but wait, we still have one more state to go. in new jersey, hospitals hike their prices higher than any other state in the country, 326%. i wanted to understand why hospitals mark up their prices this way. so ive come here to ask the president of the american hospital association. nationally, mar...

Job done. and that is to say, we want banks to get back to doing what banks do. and banks that pay the insurance corporation, need to, if they want to continue to do risky swaps, take those operations out. set them apart. theyre going to take that risky operation out and its going to require more capital and its going to require more regulation. but making sure that banks do what banks do, and if they want to do more, then they need to move that operation out. and thats what were going to be try...

>> the way they will manage it on the floor in the house is they will not allow amendments. that would open up this can of worms. whatever will come out of the mark-up on monday at 3:00, remember, the house is a body whose legislative procedures are more carefully managed by the leadership. whatever comes out of the mark-up, thats what well see. if its not there at 3:00 on monday, then i think the ship finally has sailed, the nail is in the coffin, choose your metaphor for this maddening bit of ...

Possibly to the administration to say that it doesnt make sense. maybe they are being told not to include it. >> look, the administration has said every conceivable sign aside of saying, oh, sure, beooer for it that they are not actually for it. where do you rest this? the white house. every opportunity they could have intervened on behalf of the public option they have chosen not to. i think youre right. the ball is in pelosis court and the speaker should call the bluff. when they put it on the...

The problem is that costs money. significant amounts of money. more than $100 billion. senate republicans dont have that space to work with. it runs head long into the leaders. the deficit hawks adding more money to what costs and could risk alienating them. senator james langeford and they dont want this plan to add to the deficit in the long-term. what you have is gop leaders trying to figure out both sides. they need to do it in a short clip. president trump meeting with republicans behind cl...

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Corporation to have religious rights over the rights of thousands of employees, female employees of hobby lobby who suddenly were not going to get this kind of insurance coverage. >> so respond to an alternate thee theory of what happened. this is a substantive decision ive come to and my colleagues have come to on the merits. its about his judicial philosophy and another way of viewing this, hes tremendous organized pressure to put on democratic by the activist base that felt like any vote, its...

So a lot of conservatives will be upset to know that we are keeping those things from obamacare and there needs to be an open debate about that. >> bret: is that all true? >> no, its not. i think -- i like rand, but i think he is looking for a publicity stunt here. the committees of jurisdiction are drafting the frustration in getting feedback from their members. thats exactly how legislation is supposed to be written. the things he described are just not accurate. like i said, when the committe...

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