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Public threat. turns out there's a major shortage in prescription drugs so which ones and how worried should we be? >> we shouldn't be worried. this is good news. i'm glad we're opening with positive news. fda is coming down on manufacturers since 2010, we have had over 546 drugs that are really short, that has put pharmacies in a lot of trouble and frustrated patients. a lot of the shortages of medications, propofol, tamiflu, on and on, it's because manufacturers may not make enough profit, they don't necessarily to have to report to the fda, and maybe they're not getting enough raw material ...

How about $44? remember, it's for this, this thing. nope. not $44. a 1-liter bag of saline solution could run you about $91. if you need six bags like a recent patient at a new york hospital, that's $546. those details come from a shocking article in "the new york times" today, at white plains hospital, a patient with private insurance from aetna was charged $91 for one unit of hospira iv that cost the hospital, wait for it, 86 cents. a hospital spokeswoman defended the markup as consistent be with industry standards. she said tud reflected not only the cost of solution but a variety of relate...

Recent patient at a new york hospital, that's $546. those details come from a shocking article in "the new york times" today, at white plains hospital, a patient with private insurance from aetna was charged $91 for one unit of hospira iv that cost the hospital, wait for it, 86 cents. a spokeswoman defended the markup as consistent with industry standards, affected the cost of the solution but related services and processes, like procurement, biomedical handling and storage which was not included in a charge of $127 just for administering the iv and $893 for emergency room services. this repor...

Is nothing compared to the nearly $80,000 the procedure would have cost him out of pocket in the u.s. that is for an artificial hip at costs $350 to make. the cost of childbirth in the united states is more than twice as much as other developed nations. because in the u.s. all the charges for childbirth are broken out meaning more bills and higher costs and who knows, maybe you'll get a bag of saline, too. keep all of this in mind when people talk about obama care implementation and scream about socialism and a government takeover. we're trying to move slowly, incrementally, finally toward a s...

A state statute allows defendants who win their cases to recoup their legal costs. next, $546. that's how much a patient was charged for a bag of salt water for an i.v. that's 200 times more than it cost to make the six liters of water and 54-grams of salt. finally, 25,000. that's the number of students that's the number of students who took the admission test for the university of liberia and failed. that means there will be no freshman class this fall. what was on the test that all 25,000 people would fail? got to find that out. >> brian: we'll look into it. you're not done yet. >> gretchen:...