going to be losing their coverage. i think that group was what was the argument for that? i saw that. i said it can t be right. is it the employers realizing it s too expensive to carry coverage and throw them on exchanges? exactly. the exchange is a way for them to fall back on it. that s an option that wasn t necessarily there before. the administration says 15 million people. manhattan institute said 93 million people. the truth is somewhere between those two numbers. that s a ton of people. the early signs of this when ibm and time warner and big companies do that with their existing retirees, it s not a leap to say other companies do that as well. and then work down the food chain to active workers. it s a cost cutting measure. everyone is scared about the cost of this law and impact on workers and budgets and all that. if they all do it at once sometimes benefits are a big reason why young people like yourself will choose one company
nbc s michelle franzen. thank you. in oklahoma city firefighters continue to battle flare ups from a wildfire that has burned dozens of homes and about 4,000 acres this week. extreme drought, sering heat and gusty winds are hampering the efforts. another wildfire is threatening homes in the central part of the state. three firefighters got hurt trying to put it out. officials in texas say cool weather and calmer winds could help efforts to calm a wildfire that has destroyed more than three dozen homes and burned more than 600 acres. a raffle in congressman gabby giffords district is causing a huge controversy. wait until you hear what s being raffled off. 120 school districts are shortening their week. four days instead of five. it s not only a cost cutting measure. what do you think? is it a good idea? what if you re a parent who has to figure out what to do with your kids on day five? end us a tweet. you can reach me
have you been talking to ari? it s what he told me before. don t give joe an inch. you are in line for cost cutting. how do we reduce costs? no, no i m not just focused on cost cutting. i m focused on doing the right thing for the patient. it s not the mri. my question is, my question is, why when they reduce the health care bill arianna, they did. there are a few things they left on the table. arianna, arianna i m sorry, arianna. let him talk, he s going to get angry. use the bargaining power to get cheaper drugs from pharmaceutical companies. arianna, first of all, almost every cost cutting measure, any
respectable health pop si expert proposed is in the bill. excuse me, you are wrong about are they in the bill? arianna no. reimportation is not a serious cost cutting measure. it s not a serious matter. that s why. let s hear from the doctor. let s hear from the doctor. the important thing to remember is that 70% of the health care costs go for chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, emphysema. 70% of costs go to chronic illness. that s where the cost cutting measures have to be focused. there, the focus is to coordinate care and keep them healthy. prevent them from getting those diseases, healthy and out of the hospital. that s where the focus of our cost reform needs to be in addition to giving the rest of us unnecessary care. what does that look like?
show. and some of the far right are taking it even farther. newt gingrich says the mosque is like putting a nazi sign next to the holocaust museum. comments like that, plus calls from leading republicans to ditch the constitutional right to birthright citizenship has moderates in the party worried. could this kind of talk hurt the party long-term? plus, afghanistan and iraq get the headlines, but under president obama, the stealth war under al qaeda has expanded to nearly a dozen countries worldwide. we ll go inside on how this administration is changing the war on terrorists. and guess who is back on top in the florida senate race? marco rubio now leads charlie crist in the newest mason-dixon poll. we ll look at what s happening in florida and other hot races across the country. and they re calling it a cost cutting measure. the teacher s union in milwaukee wants viagra covered under the health insurance plan. that s in the sideshow tonight. but we begin with president obama and t