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>> it is ready to go. we call upon our colleagues in the other body. use whatever senate procedures you need to, but get this done because the clock is ticking. the clock is ticking toward march 31st. we all know what happens to the nation's seniors on that day. >> democrats have proposed a permanent fix of the medicare reimbursement, but it's not paid for. so the choices at this point are adding $170 billion to the nation's debt or else delaying the obamacare individual mandate five years. gretchen? >> always interesting on capitol hill. mike, thanks so much. time to check in with shepard s...

Know ground in colorado. martha: well, facebook shelling out $19 billion to buy the text-messaging service called what's app. the deal highlights a trend among new technology companies creating massive wealth with virtually no job creation to speak of. facebook is worth $170 billion. only needs 6,000 people though to make it work. what'sapp, only 50 employees to spread that money around. stu varney joins us, host of "varney & company" from the fox business network. you felt it is a important deal announced today. >> this is astonishing deal. this company is valued at $19 billion and only got 5...

Some many things like literacy. it is really awful where america arrived at, given where it was 30 or 40 years ago. >> yeah, and a lot of that is the function of government bureaucracy, employee unions. when you look at something like a company that signed a contract with georgia tech to take a $70,000 residential master's degree in computer science and turn it into a $7,000 on-line degree, that is a 90% reduction. imagine that in student loan costs. you have a program with a brand-new company which thinks they can take $170 billion out of the cost of medicare and medicaid. $157 billion over t...

From the bottom of the ladder in some many things like literacy. it is really awful where america arrived at, given where it was 30 or 40 years ago. >> yeah, and a lot of that is the function of government bureaucracy, employee unions. when you look at something like a company that signed a contract with georgia tech to take a $70,000 residential master's degree in computer science and turn it into a $7,000 on-line degree, that is a 90% reduction. imagine that in student loan costs. you have a program with a brand-new company which thinks they can take $170 billion out of the cost of medicare ...

Minorities. >> why do you think that was? >> well, i think the obamacare attractiveness and feature was something we underestimated in particularly lower incomes. >> a fox news poll last month found women support the health care law more than men, with 43% of women saying the law should be kept in place. compared to only 39% of men. the difference in support along racial lines is even more stark, with 73% of nonwhites saying the law should be kept in place. while only 32% of whites say that. republican officials respond by saying health care is not the only issue to reach out to female voters ...