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WRC Dateline NBC November 17, 2014

Paying attention to is that people are more on the medicare and the medicaid plans, the Big Government plans, more hospitals are merging to have higher market plan to raise the premiums for the people with the private insurance ax, and we ar seeing that in ohio as more hospitalbased systems are merging and maybe it is different in toby, but it is increasing prices for 44 higher on things like knee e replacements and angioplasties and procedures. And mary, you are shaking your heads. Yes, we have data that premiums are coming down. And premiums, your out of pocket costs are coming down. We used to have the doubledigit increases over the last couple of years, they have come down. And it is true ha the Health Care System is transforming itself, because there is pressure to bring the costs down, and greater concentration in some areas, and most of the times in most of those cases what we are seeing is better value for the patient. So, im happy to discuss the ins and outs of different areas, but as the national trend, we have National Numbers that the inflation is down and translating to the lower premium increases. Are dr. Cosgrove, what is the next metrics . It is the transparency around the costs, and that is going to happen over time which will bring the marketplace to a real marketpla marketplace. We need to have people understand and have a part in how much they are paying for their health care. With we really need to move from sick care to well care and that is going to require that people get involved in their care and understand what they are doing, and at the end of the day, you have to understand that the health of the country is only as good as the health of the citizens, and we need to work on that hard. And obic, what would you do dismantle the the law or try to improve it . Make changes to the law based on the things that you think that the president can sign whether it is bipartisan support. U wrote would not go for the kill on this . No, they will have a vote on the repeal,r because the base want wants it, and they have a made a promise to the voters, and that is fine, but the voters have to think constructively of how to make the health care better, one is to increase access to care, but a big part of increasing the access to care is to make it less expensive and the average day in the hospital in the United States is five times more than any other industrial country and that is way too high, and we are increasing the cost costs to two percent or more, we have to bring it down. And that is one part of the law that really focused on the Insurance Coverage and having a harder im to go after the cost, mary . Well, we have National Health expenditures lowering, in part, because they say thatt love other factors as wl. And the economic downturns as well. But the thing to distinguish is that the out of pocket costs are going out for consumers and tenyear trend because employers are shifting, and that is the next area for the democrats and the republicans, and the next area to concentrate on, is how much the consumers are paying. The law has had a big ben fit here, because the premiums are coming down, and the people, and that is a huge issue for all people. And quickly . We have to understand that we have a shortage of doctors and nurses. 800,000 nurses in a decade and another 130,000 doctor shortage and we have to address it before it is a crisis. All right. Than you. And so a little substance with the peoples sunday morning breakfast. The peoples sunday morning breakfast. And little policy tsome cool things to pass onto byour kids your super heroes. And little policy your fashion sense. Your love of reading. Your uncanny ability to find parking spots. Your fear of people who are different . Not so much, the more you know. Welcome back. The panel is stul heill here. I want to pick up on the healthcare conversation. Would you be advising full repeal at this point in time . Do you think at some point you gotto almost stop talking about repeal or no . I think that the Republican House will pass a bill that repeals it. I think ultimately this bill does you dont think the senate will . I dont think the senate will. Let me tell you why i think it needs to be repealed. What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you dont particularly fix the problem you started out to fix and you create problems for everyone else. Thats what we have done. The number of uninsured isnt coming down fast enough. Preexisting conditions, im a cancer survivor. Of course, that should not be a reason not to get Health Insurance. But they keep talking about premiums. What they dont talk about is everyones deductibles have gone up. What they dont talk about is not enough people are getting insured. We have created so many other problems. You reference jonathan. This law is longer than a harry potter novel. It happen wait a minute. Of course nobody understands it. It has created problems for everyone. The healthcare you will write a long law. Are you not . Or, you could go to the one force that we know reliably improves quality and lowers costs. Its competition. The Health Insurance market has never been competitive. Between the Health Insurance companies trying to protect their franchises and Big Government. Reed, you helped me on my book. When we went through the healthcare thing, passing the bill became more importance tt the words in the bill. It did. Within the white house there was overcorrection the mistakes the clintons had made. They gave a lot of writing authority to capitol hill. That didnt work because of some internal dynamics within the democratic conference up there, especially in the senate. This is a problem for the president from the first day of his administration. It has plagued him. It will now continue to do so in the last two years of his term. Chris, if you are the administration, they still they still havent marketed healthcare well. I agree. I want to go to the genesis of the bill. Its the same as immigration. As long as you have an intractable opposition i was hoping with he get hatch in on the bill. They were negotiating. They fell off because of fear of the tea party people. Same with immigration. Please have a meeting between the president and the speaker of the house they need to meet . I like it on television. What is your opposition to the bi bill . I will give you more enforcement. Is it hiring rules . We will enforce them. I promise you we will enforce them. You are against any kind of amnesty for people who have been here 20, 30 years. So what then when the president issues the order, people will understand he tried to negotiate. Let me tell you something. We are negotiating with t why dont we have negotiations. He brings up a point. I can hear republicans echoing, he will negotiate with iranians but he wont negotiate with us. Thats not the way i said it. Im telling you thats the way you will requoted. They meet at the table and show us whats their opposition to immigration. Im sorry. Very quick. I think that for the republicans, theres going to be a danger of overreach as well. They right now control the senate. If they are going to shut down the government, what are they going to be for . Before i let you go, we thought we would end on a happy note. The president sis on his way hoe from the g20 summit. Being australia, the hosts brought out cuddly koalas. Look at that. This like him posing with an animal that wasnt faked. Theres the president , almost getting tickled by a koala. Is this a reminder everything goes better with animals . Everybody is happier . You want a joke . Before i let you go, are you how serious are you about running for president . That will be something i considerate the right time. You are considering . When people ask you over and over again, you have to reflect. I will pause and reflect at the right time. You are something you are pondering . You have to ponder when people ask you. Have i been i have been to iowa. Theres a flight out of d. C. Thats all for today. We will be back next week because if its sunday, its meet the press. Our daughter chose to go up and fly in an airplane. She was always just driven to be perfect. My dad pulled up and said, mckenzie is missing. I am not ready to plan a funeral. A teenage girl, out to earn her pilots license, sets off on a solo flight. She was well trained. Shes capable. But something went wrong. I started thinking, she should be there by now. Hours stretched on without any word. Her parents, frantic. I had that eerie feeling the kind that you dont entertain as a parent. Something wasnt right. Mckenzie has vanished, leaving behind empty skies and a terrible fear. Had her plane gone down . Some of the countrys most dangerous terrain. Theres mountain lions, coyotes. Not somewhere you would want to see yourself, let alone a young girl. A search becomes a race against time. If it got dark, it would really add to the chance that she would end up dying out there. Had a girls dream turned de deadly . Mom and dad i, crashed my plane. A treacherous journey leading to an astounding journey. What was that like to see . It was a shock. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Here is Keith Morrison with into the wild. There are places in the American West that quite rightly inspire fear, along with awe. Like the wild haunts of grizzlies in wyomings mountains. Like the overconfident heart of a precocious teenage girl. Like the terrified love of a parent. The girl is gone. You have no control. Youre in gods hands so to speak. It was miserable. But her . Nobody thought it would happen to mckenzie morgan. Youre just quiet because theres not a thing that we can do. Hi. To mckenzies parents, steve and christie, she was always exceptional. Their super girl. Mckenzie is the type of kid that started reading at 2, 2 1 2 . Speaking in sentences at a year and a half. She excelled in school, threw a wicked curveball and had a sixth sense for the outdoors, developed elk hunting with her dad. She was a great kid. But she was always wanting to go off and do the next thing. And the next thing. Do it as good as you can. More than anything, mckenzie wanted to fly. Frankly, that desire came packaged in her genes. Great grandfather, uncles like jared hanson, all pilots. Mckenzies uncle and grandpa got together. We talked and said if she wants to do it, lets help her out. Her parents were fine with it, too. A lot of people would look at this and say, god, you really feel okay letting your daughter go off around fly an airplane at this age . I see kids and they dont communicate, they sit there and text. Yeah. Our daughter chose to go up and fly in an airplane. I was more scared of her driving than flying. When mckenzie was 17, her uncle loaned her his cessna 172 and her grandfather paid for flying lessons. Her teacher had been doing this very thing in montana since mckenzie was born. That little thing is your ticket to what anywhere i want to go. I fly it to canada, i fly it to mexico. You know, you get to see things that a lot of times that other people are never going to get to see. So, when the girl showed up at her Flight School in nearby laurel in august of 2013, brimming with confidence, bobby jumped right in. She could see right away that mckenzie was a natural when she put her in frosted goggles and asked her to fly by instruments only. I put her in situations where she couldnt see out the window and i would say, mckenzie, where is the airport . And she would just shock me because she could point. Im like, holy smokes. So when the time came for mckenzie to fly solo, bobby didnt worry. How did she do in that first solo flying . She did great. She did smawesome. Its a tradition to cut off the back of your tshirt. Her friend took the picture. Her second solo went just as well. And then after three weeks of training, one last test flight the big one. The crosscountry solo. The faa insisted at least five hours over 150 nautical mires with stops in three different airports followed by three landings at a towered airport. In this case, billings, montana. A challenge, of course, but if mckenzie was confident, and she was, well, then so were her parents. Its not that she was just sent up in an airplane. She was well trained. Shes capable. She was ready. And so, august 20th, mckenzie left home early and her proud mom took a picture. And then at the airport, she encountered a little push from fate. A b1 bomber crashed during a routine training mission. The day before a military plane went down nearby and the air space over the vast flat lands to the east was temporarily closed. They could have put off the test. They decided not to. Because the weather was good the winds arent too strong, all the conditions you want to make sure theyre good. Yeah, we checked that very closely. So bobby and mckenzie plotted a modified trip with spots at little airports over the state line at wyoming. Around 10 00 a. M. , check is complete. Mckenzie climbed into the cockpit. I wanted to give her a hug in the worst way, then i thought, ill give her a hug on the day we finish all this because shes going to go, old people. But, i was confident, totally confident. 30 minutes in, mckenzie texted bobby from wyoming, first leg, complete. How did that go . That went well. She was headed to cody. Cody, wyoming. After about 25 minutes, she landed there, texted bobby and her mother. Said all was well. And then a second little push from fate. Though none of them knew it, a huge forest fire erupted to the west. Smoke billowed towards mckenzies revised flight path. For now, mckenzie was on her way to grable, wyoming. Tiny airport, tucked behind a ridge, hard to see through the air, through the smoky haze, White Knuckle landing. The message you got was that she wasnt it wasnt as easy this time. Right. She let me know she got a little disoriented. She was going to go ahead and taxi over, tie the plane down, take a little break. She texted that she ate lunch, refueled, and because one runway was closed for repairs, she used an alternate run way, heading in a different direction. Still, the last leg was the easiest. The flight plan called for her to follow the big horn river, make her landings at the billings airport and a final short flight back to laurel where bobby was waiting. Of course, im excited. Now were really rolling. We dont have far to go here now. Closer to home. It was midafternoon now. Mckenzies mother hadnt heard from her for a while. And suddenly sensed something off. I had that eerie feeling, you know, the kind you dont entertain as a parent. Her father driving to work, felt it too. Something just wasnt right. An hour out of town, i turned around and came back. Bobby expected to hear from her by 3 00 p. M. 3 00 p. M. Came and went. She busied herself, stayed close to the phone and that went on, tick, tick, tick. Yes. When did you start to worry . About 3 15. I started thinking, she should be there by now. Bobby called the billings tower. No one had heard from mckenzie. You try to think the best. Shes landed somewhere. Shes safe. Ill hear from her. But nothing. And this is what, 3 30, 3 40, 3 45. And about 3 50 i get a phone call from Flight Service station. They said your student i want y. And in five seconds, we will declare her missing. Worst words in the whole world. Mckenzie morgan seems to have disappeared. 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I didnt want to admit this is real. But it was. No time for second guessing. I said, ill be off the ground in 15 minutes. Ill be looking for her. She climbed into her plane, taxied to the gas pump for fuel. The manager hurried over. And he said, we cant give you fuel. We are not allowing anyone to buy fuel right now. We need it for our operation. They were running low, said the manager. They have their own charter, and the firefighter operation to fuel. What did you say . I just looked him square in the eye and i said, i need fuel. And right now i would kill you for fuel. My girl is down. I will have fuel. And he got a big look on his face and he said, give her all the fuel she wants. Just get her her fuel. While they were fuelling the plane, bobby got on the phone and began to organize a search party, friends, friends of friends. And in minutes, she and her husband were airborne. My husband said, you have to call her parents. Worst day of my life. And i did not want to do that. But i wasnt brave enough to call her mother because im a mother. So, i did the next best thing. I called her grandfather. The pilot. Yes. And i said, mckenzie is missing. And he said, i will be in the airplane in 15 minutes. Mckenzies grandpa drove to where her uncle gerald was working. It was around 4 00 p. M. , 4 30 p. M. And my dad pulled up. And said mckenzie is missing. Sorry. And then finally they called mckenzies mom, christie. What was that like to get that call . The bottom just kind of drops out. You know, you do, you go and have that tendency to go dark for a second and you think, i am not ready to plan a funeral. They tried to s

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