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>> nonprofit means you don't pay taxes, and you don't have to give the money to shareholders. instead, you can distribute it to the nondoctor executives at the hospital in millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses. >> another -- you said another cost driver is nonprofit hospitals, they're making big profits, and the article points this out. quote, in hundreds of small and midsized cities across the country, the american health care market has transformed tax exempt nonprofit hospitals into the town's most profitable businesses and largest employers, often presided over by the region's most r...

>> another -- you said another cost driver is nonprofit hospitals, they're making big profits and the article points this hout. quote, in hundreds of small and midsized cities across the country the american health care market has transformed tax exempt nonprofit hospitals into the town's most profitable businesses and lanlest employers, often presided over by the region's most richly compensated executives. for example, md anderson cancer center at the university of texas, a nonprofit, had a 26% operating profit in 2010. the president of the cancer center was paid $1.8 million last year. that...

Focused on the economy. they see it as a big job coster. when you talk to entrepreneurs and businesses and you ask them, why aren't you hiring? some is uncertainty around tax policy, which you talked about last night. some of this is about health care policy, people view the obamacare law as a huge cost driver to hire new people and one of the reasons that people are not hiring. >> greta: you don't expect that whatever happens tomorrow to go to the senate and be voted on? >> you are right that the senate has acted very little on the mounds of legislation that the house of representatives has p...

the white house called the killings a vial testament to an illegitimate regime that responds to peaceful protests with unspeakable brutality. the video of some of the 34 children killed has surfaced online. the images are simply too graphic to broadcast, showing children under the age of 10, some with missing limbs, and severe head wounds. the syrian government denies responsibility and blames al qaeda terrorists for the attack. well, this was a scene in several syrian cities today. people so angry over the massacre, they risked retribution from security forces to turn out in force. ...

All the way into the united states into canada. >> it doesn't seem like the border fence and beefed up border patrol and national guard inhibited drug smuggling all that much. it seems all these narcotics are still getting in here. am i wrong? >> that's right. because product for them is not the cost driver. they can lose product and they don't care. so they will run a shipment of a ton of marijuana through and then they will actually call and give themselves -- say hey, we are running this shipment through. because when everybody runs to get that shipment. they move even more stuff through so...