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And it's easy to see how this situation could make prices go even higher, especially on the energy front. oil prices hitting $99.50 a barrel this morning before backing off. remember, gasoline prices here in the united states are already high. seven year high of $3.53 a gallon. up 20 cents in just the past month, we have to also look at the stock market. the dow taken a hit this morning. u.s. markets retreating. the dow down almost 300 points. 0.9%. kate, i think given all the wide reaching consequences of this crisis, it's easy to see why market turbulence is likely to continue from here. >> ...

Big impact on american consumers, that does not seem to be the case and that seems to be the message from the market, too, that brent was at 99.50 early tuesday. it's backed off to $98.15 right now. gas prices, which moved, they're up, too, the national average hitting $3.54 a gallon. that is a fresh 7-year high of 27 cents in a month. they'll go even higher if oil prices do. i think the question is what comes next. because white house officials said additional sanctions could come at any moment if russia takes further actions here. if the west ends up hitting russian banks or even russian oil...

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. ...