One nevada man signed up for health care on his states exchange. He paid his premium. But when he suffered a heart attack and underwent triple bypass surgery he was stuck with the bill. I will let larry here to tell his story just how much that bill was. Joining him, obek royce of the manhattan institute. Welcome to you both. Larry, this story is amazing. What kind of a bill did you get . Well i received several bills. The bill that everybody sees on television and the newspaper is 407,000 bill. That is the one that came from summerlin hospital, the hospital where i had my surgery. But i also had six or seven other, as you probably know, maybe you dont, but six or seven other doctors such as emergency room, anesthesiologists, xray folks, other gerri it all adds up. Yes, it does and it is not on that 407,000 bill. That is in addition to that. Gerri wow larry tell us about this story. You tried to sign up for obamacare right away. What happened . I started on october 1st. I was told on o
Consumer inflation missed estimates. Europe, you can see, is in the green. The question everybodys talking about today, is the stock market rigged . Well go behind the explosive headline, bring you some answers. Plus, it is the final trading day of the First Quarter. So far this year, one exchange has performed a lot worse than the others. I bet you know which one it is. And things keep looking worse for general motors, ahead of ceos mary barras testimony on capitol hill this week. Why did it take federal regulators and gm over a decade to order the recall . Well try to get answers. First up, a comment causing a lot of buzz today. Best selling author Michael Lewis with harsh words about the stock market last night on 60 minutes take a listen. The stock markets rigged. The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism is rigged by whom. A combination the stock exchanges, the big wall street banks and High Frequency traders. Big, important words for a mainstream
The polls have closed in afghanistan. The nation voted in the first democratic election. There are fearing of violence because of a string of bombing and shootings. The day went off smoothly. We have that story in kabul. The queue started before the polling stations opened. Despite taliban threats to target the operation, people wanted to vote. In afghanistans 5,000 year history, this marks the first democratic transfer of power, the people here eager to seize the chance. You can see everyone coming here. For me, i dont have any kind of taliban. 12 million from eligible to vote. In parts of the country where the taliban held sway polling stations were closed. People queue up after going through a security check, dip their finger in indelible ink. Pick up their papers, go in and cast their ballot. Blue for the president ial and green for the provincial. The president ial vote is easy, theres eight candidates. For the provincial elections there are six pages, 400 candidates in kabul. Eac
Us. For the choices that our parents made. Fighting deportation. A woman waits to find out if her younger brother has to leave the u. S. , which is the only home the two have ever known. Good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Its been held as afghans first democratic transition of power. In under an hour when the polls will close, security is tight. 200,000 troops deploy to protect the voters. The taliban is calling the election a sham and threatens to disrupt a process. Outgoing President Hamid karzai cast his vote and a top c contender Zalmai Rassoul cast his at the polling stags. Hes believed to have Hamid Karzais backing, but officials warn of possible corruption in his campaign. Bernard smith has more. Weve had thunder, lightening, its poring with rain and theres the threat of violence. Kabul, the city is on lockdown. There are checkpoints every 200m. Despite all of that we are seeing long queues at polling stations with kav gans d
Nightly Business Report for thursday, september 26th. Good evening, everyone. Big things sometimes come in small packages. That was the talk on wall street today. Stocks finally broke their fiveday losing streak, but it wasnt the Big Companies that lifted the markets. It was small cap stocks. They have quietly and steadily risen in value, and today the russell 2000 index of Smaller Companies closed at a fresh alltime high. So far, the russell index has surged 27 . Thats a lot more, 10 more, than the gains on the dow average this year. Also giving a boost to the markets today, good news about jobs. Initial jobless claims dipped to a nearly sixyear low. Looking at the closing numbers, the dow added 55 points, the nasdaq rose 26. And the s p 500 index up almost five points. Do they still have room to run . Here to answer that question and more is jay kaplan, Portfolio Manager and principal at the reus funds. Mr. Kaplan, welcome. Why are the Small Companies outpacing the big blue chips by