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>> yes. thats what it seemed like, yeah. >> reporter: so what happens to all of the actual donated money? in ten years, kids wish network raised $127 million, and nearly 90% of that money went to professional fund-raisers, not sick kids. the sick kids, they got at most 2.5 cents of every dollar raised. the charitys attorney insists there is nothing illegal about the fund-raising. maybe not. but this former marketing associate says there was something wrong to him about how they did it. at events...

The train wreck it is looking like it could be which is quite likely, new bu not certain, the underlying obama ideology of the oh ever expanding entitlement state, ever enlarging and strengthening of accept tral government will be set back for decades. there is a riding on this. i dont think hes undoing health care. if the fix were actually going to allow large numbers of people to stay on their plans it would jeopardize obama care and take away the young and healthies he needs in the exchanges ...

The train wreck it is looking like it could be which is quite likely, new bu not certain, the underlying obama ideology of the oh ever expanding entitlement state, ever enlarging and strengthening of accept tral government will be set back for decades. there is a riding on this. i dont think hes undoing health care. if the fix were actually going to allow large numbers of people to stay on their plans it would jeopardize obama care and take away the young and healthies he needs in the exchanges ...

The markets blew up. no one wants that. we dont want that. our top priority is to get affordable coverage to all americans. >> did you express these concerns to the white house before the president went public with his plan today? >> well, i think you know us very well. were not shy about expressing concerns about a range of things, both with the administration and on capitol hill. were continuing to do that. and we are now looking at the proposal and we want to talk about what the impact is, be...

The system and allow them to keep their plans, and you probably dont have a lot of young, healthy people willing to try 8, 10, 12 hours to get on this web site. so already the people who are signing up are probably the older and the sicker. and the entire economic basis of this exchange system starts to collapse. thats a really big problem. >> well, thats really why the administration is saying to democrats, hold on, kind of like paul, saying democrats, hold on. we want to try and do some kind o...

So you keep those people out of the system and allow them to keep their plans, and you probably dont have a lot of young, healthy people willing to try 8, 10, 12 hours to get on this website. so already the people who are signing up are probably the older and the sicker. and the entire economic basis of this exchange system starts to collapse. thats a really big problem. >> well, thats really why the administration is saying to democrats, hold on, kind of like paul, saying democrats, hold on. we...

54% disapprove. thats another low for the -- for this president. >> let me give you ather number, the questn whether you trust the president, consider him is down 10 pointsince october. andha is as a direct result of saying to people, you can keep your -- you can keep your health care if you like. >> its because of the -- if you like your plan you can keep your plan. >> and that goes to the -- a design. the administration said we are going to have a program to bring coverage to more people, many...

>> i think we should spend more money on health care for the poor. >> talk about disparities in general. when we think about the question of these disparities should we be more worried about the floor, whether or not people have a decent life span, quality of life thats better than some previous time or should we care about disparities, that even if the floor is up, if theres a big gap, that should still matter to? >> we should care about both. improving everybodys health is a great thing but in...

It would steam hospital still has a lot of explaining to do. >> dan simon, thank you very much. absolutely bizarre and disturbing story. still outfront, did the u.s. drop the ball again in libya? why the timing of two raids on terrorists may have cost america at a chance of a very high value target. then open gym for congress, new china as in plates. this is wra the shutdown looks like? then a blogger calls out a sicker for what she calls racist lyrics. was she listen go to the same song? an...

Jim engle reports there are not too many people expecting a smooth start, though. >> reporter: there are still numerous questions about how and whether it will work. >> obama care succeeds or fails based on enrollment, period. >> the most important thing is whether young people sign up. >> the key are the young and healthy who dont have big medical bills but whose premiums will be used to cover the older and sicker. younger people are subsidizing older people in this law because health care cost...