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Figure from "the washington post," there's $116 billion in health care costs for the uninsured in the year 2008. now, if the individual mandate or the medicare expansion is overturned by the supreme court, how much would it hurt this country financially in the short term, and then give us the long-term projection as well. >> well, it would absolutely hurt this country in the short term and in the long term because we see how the costs of health care is skyrocketing. it's already 17% of gdp. and it also affects families who pay on an average of $1,000 just for people who are not getting -- who ...

Do legally. in business, the european union and imf are opening their wallets once again, this time to give portugal a little financial aid. a lot of financial aid we should say. let's take an early look at the markets as we get up in your business. cnbc's rebecca meehan is live in london. >> let's give you the figures on the portugal bailout. in euro, 78 billion euro. let me translate that into dollars, $116 billion is how much this will cost. this is the deal that portugal has struck with the imf and the eu. for this bailout and really they're following in the footsteps of greece and irela...

The portuguese loan has only been agleed principle. eu members in portugal still need to give the green light. they've already objected to one proposal. finland could potentially include bailout elements, of course, the question marks remain here about whether portugal will be able to push this through. as we have just said it's $116 billion, andrew. it's an awful lot of money it. >> is an awful lot of money, and i'm sure many people in the euro-zone are not sure they want to take that step. we will watch. well, osama bin laden is dead, but he's still costing the u.s. and other countries a l...

Lawmakers become to the capitol from their summer recess for this rare august session. she wants to get this passed. democrats are adding billions more to the crushing national debt, republicans say, about $13 trillion and counting. dennis van roquele is president of the national education association. first of all, how far will this go to save the jobs of teachers? >> it is a victory for students it is a great day. is going to go a long way, we think somewhere around 160,000 positions will be saved. it means students won't have larger class sizes, programs won't be cut it is a great day for s...

Federal reserve stepped up and said we're basically going to be the buyer of last resort for some of these products. so there's nobody out there that's doing this. there's no vultures circling some of the carcasses of these debts. >> look, they've gotta make $116 billion debt payment i think it is by may 17th or 19th. i don't recall offhand which it is. assuming that they come up with the cash to do that, how much of a short-term fix is that? >> well, it's very difficult. i mean, you keep in mind, 80% of greek debt is being held by basically the banks and financial institutions outside the nat...