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Incentives to staffers to move patients through the system faster. erin mcpike is live outside the hyatt hotel in washington where the va secretary shinseki will be speaking to veterans in 90 minutes. how does this all fit together, erin? >> chris, the the bonus system is part of a year's long effort by conservatives to make the government function more like a business. but krit tinges say for that to actually happen and to make the government function more like the private sector, there has to be accountability for those bonuses and consequences when performance suffers. >> there's a possibil...

He's got a speech or he's going to make some comments about fighting the homeless vet problem. that's at 8:30 this morning. really i think a lot of the media are going to show up just to see what happens and when, not if, general shinseki resigns. >> that is a good question. what's going to happen to him is a good question. but i know the question you are also asking and we need to continue asking, then what? if he steps down, how then is the system, this huge bureaucracy going to be fixed? what's going to happen then? that's then, of course, the next question. drew, in front of it all, thank ...

Coaches were, you know, giving them money, basically. the coaches were giving them money as part of a pay-out system, a bonus system. $500 for a sack or $50 for a tackle. a lot of times it was delivered in an envelope after the game. they would give them an envelope that was supposed to be with $15, their purdiem, and it had hundreds it in instead. >> we have the a.d. mike holder speaking about the allegations. here he is. >> unfortunately, we've got something out there on the horizon that we're going to have to deal with. we're all committed to playing by the rules. doing things the right way...

Them those poor wall street folk also be able to get a place with a yard, too. now, those who support the bonus system, shep, would obviously argue that if every one of those wall street workers spends every penny of his or her bonus, it would amount to a pretty good stimulus package for new york city, at least. the average american taxpayer, of course, still struggling to pay off his or her own mortgage might beg to differ. shep? >> shepard: jonathan hunt channelling robert leach life on wall street tonight. jonathan, thank you. even as the money was rolling in on the street, regular american...

Know what the outcomes in the treatments of diana -- treatments of diabetes. we still pay providers if they have unfortunate outcomes or average outcomes. we pay them more if they have better outcomes so it is a bonus system and it is working. >> greta: what about the idea that you put forth in our on -- in our op-ed about making patients be smarter consumers what is the advantage? >> we know it is common sense that people spend money differently if at least some is their own money. we said to our state employees you can go to any clinic, if you choose one that is really expensive and not as g...