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>> well, i definitely ended up spending more than i anticipated, but the truth is that i had never looked for insurance before this, so i didn't know what to expect. >> and megan, let me bring you in, and megan, here it is, the 22nd, and the deadline is com g coming, and why haven't you signed up yet, megan? >> well, i have been looking for health care, and we have looked at the affordable health care website. but because of what we would have to do is that i e would have to go through medicaid before i can sign up to get any kind of help or any kind of financial aid. and the medicaid in our s...

Issue that is providing you from the safety of satisfaction? >> i was told for united airlines it was not a cost issue or weight issue. it is that the tsa emphasis is on explosives on an airplane and not on a breach of the cockpit. that's their new focus. i don't know what study or risk-based analysis was to say we will only have explosives on an airplane. we know terrorists will look for weakness. the door can be breached in two seconds. >> i want to ask about the malaysian flight. you got the news quickly about victor on 9/11, these folks are now entering their third week of uncertainty. you...

Crashing. this plane has just gone silent. >> right. and i think that's the biggest unknown that is worth examination going forward. the idea that you don't have deployable flight recorders -- flight recorders that send back its own signal, float up to the top if something happens with water, there is not more sophistication in modern aircraft to ensure in tragedy there is constant reporting and availability of data is a little shocking. >> it is. but 447 talks about that. 447 says there should be -- there needs to be an examination of whether aircraft should be reporting more information in r...

The airlines haven't really adopted it yet and the authorities haven't either. we can have simultaneous information being distributed on these planes as opposed to having to have the black boxes, but it's really kind of a cost issue since we don't have, thankfully, a lot of crashes. but take two or three of the leading theories. one corrosion. malaysia air flies over oceans. highly salt water can corrode and cause a fatigue stress fracture in the hull. as we saw with hawaiian air in the 1990s or 199 -- 1980s, i believe. but they have good anti-aging programs at malaysia air. point two, some re...

But it means that the president is going to have to acknowledge that this isn't working and go back to the drawing board. we would be more than willing to enter into that discussion about what we can do to address the high cost of healthcare in this country. because, that, for most people, what this comes down to. the cost issue. they can't pay the rent. they can't pay the mortgage. they can't pay their children's education. >> they don't acknowledge if you send your lieutenants out here to say on television if you like your doctor you can keep it pay more. they don't get it to me that's appal...