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He painstakingly went through the actual bills that hospitals put out and found they charge massively for routine procedures and medicine. he found for example a routine blood test was billed to patients at a hospital at the rate of $199.50. medicare pays for that same test $13.94. he agrees that the health care industry is not a real market but for different reasons than many on the right. he says there is so much confusion, so many monopolys and disinformation it cannot function as one. most important, he says, is that the consumer when buying health care simply does not have the power to ac...

Put out and found that they charge massively for routine procedures and medicine. he found, for example, a routine blood test was billed to patients at a hospital at the rate of 199.50. medicare pays for that same test, $13.94. america's health care industry is not a real market, but for different reasons than many on the right. he says that there is so many monopolies and so much disinformation that it cannot function as one. most important, he says, is that the consumer, when buying health care, simply does not have the power to act as he or she does in other markets. when a doctor tells you...

Pretoria, south africa. it was inside a short time ago that a judge granted bail to olympic runner oscar pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend on valentine's day, so we will let you know when we see oscar pistorius. in the meantime, i think everybody's got a story about an expensive doctor's visit or hospital bill, but "time" magazine's new cover story "bitter pill, why amedical bill are killing us" breaks down the numbers. what they found is truly shocking. let me just give you one example. a patient was charged $199.50 for a troponin test. she is a year away from medicare. ...

Behind you, adam? >> reporter: we're going to walk, bill, we're not going to drive for next couple weeks until gas prices come back down. we were out here in the summertime when gas prices were like this behind me. 4.99 for regular. 5.09 for premium. gas prices in california are consistently in the fives. no one expected this in the middle of february and in the middle winter. we putnam members together for you how high prices have gotten across the country. 33 straight days according to aaa. hawaii is the high left. but here in the contiguous 48, california, 4.16. d.c., 3.94. michigan,.91. in...

Arrested. the price of gas is climbing after staying below last year' prices for more than 3 months. last year's price was 3 -- average price is 3.72. highest average price this year has been $3.94 that was back in april. i am craig boswell. now back to "huckabee" for all of your news headlines log on to foxnews.com. huckabee . emaim at mikehuckabee.com . >> the election season is heating yup that means the rerick and heating up as well i will talk to you about the things you heard. small business owners are starting to let president obama know howutch set they are over the comment you didn't ...