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We are available 24/7. if a new symptom occurs in the middle of the night, we are there to help. the care manager coordinates all of the patient's appointments, scans, chemotherapy... the last thing any patient really needs to worry about is how am i going to get here, how is insurance going to handle this? one of the great things we do is help them manage their symptoms at home. we as care managers want to take as much stress off the patient as we can. meet the care managers at ctca. my name is mena... collette jodi vincent stacy our nurse care managers are with you every step of the way so y...

Centers of america, every patient gets their own care manager, to coordinate every aspect of their care. it's a long journey, its very complicated and we try to help them through that. we are available 24/7. if a new symptom occurs in the middle of the night, we are there to help. the care manager coordinates all of the patient's appointments, scans, chemotherapy... the last thing any patient really needs to worry about is how am i going to get here, how is insurance going to handle this? one of the great things we do is help them manage their symptoms at home. we as care managers want to take...

They want, and that is, where are our loved ones? no one can tell them that. and all of that hope has given way to despair. like phil oak said, there but for fortune go you or i. candy? >> jim clancy, thank you so much. you're going to make me cry just describing it much less seeing some of these pictures we've seen this week. get some sleep, and thanks so much for your input. with me now, reverend earl johnson. he is a former national disaster spiritual care manager for the red cross. i know you have counseled people through a number of crises. i want to play while we're talking some of the...

Primary care doctors like myself with a care manager in our practice, with access to a pharmacist and with other services for those patients which allowed us to provide better, more comprehensive care for them. the results? improve the patient's quality of care. we found that we were able to reduce by 20%. emergency room use by 13%. the physicians loved it. frankly, it made my job better because it allowed me to spend more time with the things that were important and getting support from others. and oh, by the way, it also saves 7% on costs. for every $2.65, for every dollar invested, we were ...

scheduled in 2014, you might get a sense of how the law might change things if you look at massachusetts. you could do worse. see how things have gone there. take a look. in her mid-20s, jacqueline was working in her parents restaurant. like a lot of people her age, she didn't think she needed health insurance. it was too expensive anyway. >> it was almost $700 a month. i said i'm going to have to go without it. >> in 2006, governor mitt romney put his name on a health care law. faced with a state requirement to have insurance or face a fine, she signed up. >> how much did it cost yo...