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There's a lack of korch ticompei get that may be one part of that, but medicines, procedures and such, there's a reason he met with drug representatives, that's a multifacetted approach, how do drive down costs, but you're right we have to do more to get the cost of that down of the procedures to allow additional options. again, think about your insurance. one of this things driving up cost in the past was people were exercising the option of going to an emergency room over an over again for their primary care and what happened is you saw all of these quote unquote clinics pop up from around a...

Except under the most special circumstances. so absolutely people who want to put in extra work if they're getting overtime the employer is going to say, no way. you go home. that's just the way it's going to work. business is going to -- they have litigated this. the plaintiffs bar has filed lawsuits to try to get stock brokers, bank loan officers into the category of overtime. the supreme court ruled in 2012 that drug representatives do not qualify for overtime. this is just a huge legal morass that the president opened up. >> kim, what are the politics behind this in your view? >> well, thi...

Consume more prescriptions than any other country in the world. >> that's an excellent point n. part because you've got a drug industry selling to doctors. doctors have long said, we are not corrupted by a drug rep in our office. we are not. a lot of people have said, look, you have drug representatives who are paid for how many prescriptions a doctor is writing and doctors who are paid by drug companies directly for speaking or attending conferences, that is a conflict of interest. >> the incentive structure on the drug company side seems to be off. >> a couple of things here. the obamacare a...