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Walgreens. they are all trading higher on friday. one of the key points, these are the biotechs as well. making again naric drugs for low income older people on medicare. this is one of the bright spots. they can't shoot this down. just let people know, one idea when we see all of these is the pharmaceutical companies are going to publicize the cost of the pills. some people say this may shame the pharmaceutical companies into lowering their own prices because they don't want to deal with a p.r. backlash. another idea is to up end the rebate system which for the most part has been a private co...

Director and health care analyst at capital street. good to see you, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> you and i were here earlier this morning watching that initial market reaction and it seemed very, very serious for something that seems to just be a proposal for the moment. >> agreed. it was an overreaction, i would say. you had pbms dropping like a rock. >> pharmaceutical benefit managers. >> exactly, the middle man. the insurers were down, the hospitals were up slightly. but i would overall agree it was a bit of an overreaction. all we really know is that the three companies w...

Politically too hard for either political base to tolerate the two par ties working together o polarizing right now? >> i have dedicated my professional life and written bipartisan laws and have been signed by presidents of both political parties. look, the point is we have said from the beginning that if republicans said they would not go with a partisan our way or the highway approach which is reck reconciliati reconciliation, we work together. the first thing we do is we stabilize the private insurance market. i have some ideas. republicans went along with those. we move to prescription dru...

Beginning that if they would move away from this partisan, our way or the highway approach, we have a number of suggestions to work in a bipartisan way. i have a long history of doing that. the first thing we do is take steps to improve the exchanges, to stabilize the private insurance market. the second thing we would do is focus on prescription drug costs, i've been particularly concerned about the middle men, the pharmaceutical benefit managers. we don't know what they're putting in their pocket, what they're putting in the consumers pocket. and then the reality is, and medicare is very dif...

Why, thank you. whether it's saving for retirement, college, or anything else, contact a fidelity investment professional today. i'm seema mody with your market wrap. the s&p is off half a point. the nasdaq is lower by 3. opposition to the planned merger of the benefit managers is said to be building. and boeing shares sank 1% after it said dream liners need repairs. that's it from cnbc first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball."