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Prepare it, and enjoy it at home than it is out in a restaurant. >> if they want to charge you $863 for disposable piece of equipment, they can do it. >> the hospital has to be able to bring in more money than it spends or it won't there be for the next patient. >> let's look at that analogy. you go to a restaurant, you wan a nice bottle of wine. typically the mark-up is 100%. they double the cost. even if they double the cost, they wouldn't even be anywhere near in the ballpark. patients obviously can't bring their own supplies to the operating room so what do they do? >> no, you can't bring ...

Because they've written off the old debt. it's huge. >> it's a good sign for the economy when people are shopping for airplanes. you remember at the brink of the recession, fewer people were showing up at these things. >> reporter: yeah. and the really important thing, of course, that plane right in the middle, the 787, which is making its debut outside the united states, the dreamliner, that has sold 863 of them. that tells you the importance, not only for the puget sound and the northwestern united states but right through the midwest, through to chicago where boeing has its headquarters. th...

Out, obviously it is not good for any of this. it was down to 900 points now, it looks like it's getting a little bit better, but not by much, i have to tell you, when you look at the 863. so, it would be great if the next hour and 15 minutes if this would come up a little bit and it looks like it's trying to. as we were showing you, if we can put the video up somewhere at least in a box happening to greece because as i talk to stephanie elam, as i talked to becky anderson there, there were concerns that this was spreading across the european union. you heard becky talking about the markets th...

>> so, elizabeth, so us what exactly you're talking about. >> all right, kyra, i have the forceps right here. take a look at this. this is a piece of -- it's mostly plastic. it's plastic with a little bit of metal here at the end and you squeeze it to operate the forceps and it looks and feels very much like a ballpoint pen. it is not gold plated. this is what we're talking about. again, $863 at the hospital $192 if you go to a medical supply company and get it and that's all these hospitals are doing they're going to supply dumps and getting them and marking them up in this case about 400%. h...

The next patient. >> elizabeth joins us now. first of all, elizabeth, i thought the steak analogy was interesting. what kind of forceps? >> these are the time of forceps used. these are for the eye. you can see they're plastic, they feel like a ball point pen, basically, the doctor squeezes them to make the forceps work. nothing electronic, totally mechanical, it's not goldplated. nothing here sans $863. >> can somebody go online and buy the supplies they need for the procedures and take them in. >> she proposed that. if you want to mark up your supplies four percent, allow me to buy and them ...