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Six drinks. one to three drinks per week. i know that it's in another category. but somehow i'm a binge drinker in my doctor's eyes. >> bob: obamacare, the insurance companies can get your health workers. unless you work out a deal for private -- two records. one is public and one is private. >> kimberly: you have done that? >> bob: many times. you think you a doctor with your privacy. the insurance companies can get their hands on it. >> dana: what about the concern if the doctors ask if there is a gun in the house. >> greg: i go there are two gups. >> dana: do you want to explain what you we...

investigation into what could have led to this, and that's ongoing, as you can see behind me at the high school here. local sheriff's department leading this investigation, but they're getting help from the fbi and the atf. in fact, they have recovered the firearm that they believe was used, and they have given that to the atf to do some ballistics work on it. the other side of the story is clearly the absolute despair and shock that the people here are going through, and especially the family of a young man that has now been confirmed to be a fatality. there are, you know, really no...

Well, for women it's more or four drinks in one instance, and for men it's about five drinks. >> binge drinking is a huge problem. actually, it may be worse than alcoholism. it's been really underappreciated because people don't realize that if they drink a lot at a particular time, that that may actually be worse over a long period of time. cdc's estimating 88,000 deaths per year from binge drinking. >> reporter: now, the cdc says about $220 billion in 2006 were spent on damage costs, so what's the profile of a binge drinker? according to the cdc, most binge drinkingers are between the ages o...