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Suspicious because the government knew that the sec was going to file this complaint. is it a coincidence that the secretary of the treasury was on all the sunday talk shows saying this wont happen again because were going to reregulate the financial industry. is it a coincidence the president is holding town hall meetings, one right here in new york at cooper union where he gave his famous house divided speech to get opposition at wall street. whats beguiling is this company, goldman-sachs dona...

Auditors are urging the post office to cut saturday male delivery and close post office and they think they will lose record $7 billion this fiscal year and could lose $238 billion in the next decade. g.a.o. warned "if no action is taken risk of larger usps losses, rate increase and taxpayer sub diddies will increase." a second republican governor is getting attention over confederate history month. we told you that virginia bob mcdonald was forced to apologize for and reissue a proclamation bec...

Auditors are urging the post office to cut saturday male delivery and close post office and they think they will lose record $7 billion this fiscal year and could lose $238 billion in the next decade. g.a.o. warned "if no action is taken risk of larger usps losses, rate increase and taxpayer sub diddies will increase." a second republican governor is getting attention over confederate history month. we told you that virginia bob mcdonald was forced to apologize for and reissue a proclamation bec...

The blue they propose add 38% rate increase. could we see something like that after the fact, after the healthcare issue becomes law? >> neil, what i think youll continue to see is without a change in the system, healthcare costs will go up, so premiums will go up. insurance commissioners in individual states -- >> neil: the president said that wouldnt happen. quite the opposite. youre saying thats wrong. >> i dont think thats the case at all, the underlike premium costs are driven but underlyin...

Happens and it gets built on but its not in this bill. in this bill you do not have a public option. in this bill what you have are questions, legitimate questions about whether it will drive up deficit spending. we have the cbo saying, i dont believe him, but... >> you doipt have to have a public option, in the bill as of tonight, insurance companies are now agents of the federal government. >> bret: ab politically it was a major resurrection from the days of the scott browns win in massachuset...

Rate increase in california. and a rate increase up to 60% right across the border in my home state of illinois. 60% in one years that the future. thats the future and progressive campaign committee is not giving up either. they just added florida senator bill nelson who will vote yes for public option if it comes up through reconciliation. theyve now got a total of 41 votes, nine shy of what is needed. dr. howard dean joins me now here on "the ed show." >> thanks, ed. >> great to have you with ...

In bills, and she just got a rate increase of 40%. how in the world does that work? how does that math work? frankly, we didnt get very good answers. >> youre pushing for more answers. >> you bet. >> what do you hope to achieve? >> i think at the very least the american public has to understand what is going on. what are the justifications for rate increases which are so far ahead of medical trends, how much of the companys collecting in overhead profit, how much are they paying ceos and how muc...

Enforcement officials there. these are students who are protesting the rate increase in tuition across the state of california because of some of the cuts that theyve had to make in the budget. folks, these two stories are developing as we speak. were going to sneak a break in. stay right there. were coming right back. were going to check in with chris lawrence and check on this story in california. my god, look at this. more arrests continue. 120 in this area where this is going on. stay right ...

Going to continue to contribute to its system of public education. whats happening is a lot of the cost of educating the students in california is being shifted over to the students themselves. the amount of money that the state has invested in this system has declined dramatically over the years, and thats really the problem here. we have not continued to invest in public higher education that benefits all of us. not just individuals, but all of us in the state. >> well, how much do you worry w...

>> the focus of the conversation was the individual market and small employer market. clearly that marketplace is not working well. the level of premium increases, the level of mandates underlying the benefit coverages. we recognize as an industry and the secretary and president pointed that as as well. >> neil: what do you think what about what well point was proposing? >> well, what we talked about more broadly was we talked about the need to focus on the underlying cost and rein in the cost -...