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I'm sure we have a very intelligent people working on the issues in trying to identify ways to make the piece of paper uncopyable. >> security experts say that they should have known at the time. they could have incorporated a digital signature into the bar coding software. all the same, passengers here getting ready to travel for thanksgiving and the holidays coming up were shocked to hear about the flaw. take a listen. >> i think they were very good right after september 11th, but they have gotten a little more lax so they need to step it up a bit. >> it will take one instance of someone doi...

The technology that's being used is not just a simple bar coding. you're actually inputting more information into your ticket. and so i would suggest to you that the gate agents aren't actually a significant level of our security. that the tsa checkpoint, unaccompanied minors are still not going to be board or exit a plane without the handoff and none of that is going to change and if you can introduce productivity, i don't think we should scare the american traveler with the idea that people are getting into the ramp side of the airport, going into the restaurant and taking the utensils and t...

What about the notion lawyers are benefiting financially from malpractice suits? doctors like ob-gyns are retiring early because they can't afford the liability insurance and causing stories like the one i told you. >> the truth is taking away the rights of patients who are injured through no fault of their own will do absolutely nothing to reduce the cost of health care, to provide insurance to the uninsured or in order to improve the quality of health care. 98,000 patients are killed every year in the united states as a result of preventable medical errors. and the focus should be not on tak...

Insurance to the uninsured or in order to improve the quality of health care. 98,000 patients are killed every year in the united states as a result of preventable medical errors. and the focus should be not on taking their rights away but on patient safety. improves patient safety. every week in this country we have 48 wrong-sided surgeries. every year we have 2 million hospital-acquired infections. many of which could be -- the number of which could be reduced substantially with simple hand washing programs. countless medication errors year after year which could be reduced with simple chang...

Hospital-acquired infections. many of which could be -- the number of which could be reduced substantially with simple hand washing programs. countless medication errors year after year which could be reduced with simple changes, electronic and bar coding of medication orders. when a patient through no fault of his or her own is overdosed or given the wrong medication they shouldn't have their rights taken away. with respect to defensive medicine i have to say the proof is in the pudding. in states like texas which already have the most restrictive limitations on lawsuits doctors order tests a...