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To follow doctors' orders for treatment, for education to prevent them from getting sicker, thus overburdening emergency rooms and the need for more extensive care and, in effect, placing a greater financial burden on taxpayers? >> yeah. well, i spent my whole career as a health care insurer, and people not following suggestion and advice is a big problem. i mean, i talk to doctors every day and, you know, statistics are that about 65% of physicians' orders are not adhered to. and this crosses the board from poor people to rich people, black and white, all kind of people, you know? and that co...

The blue they propose add 38% rate increase. could we see something like that after the fact, after the healthcare issue becomes law? >> neil, what i think you'll continue to see is without a change in the system, healthcare costs will go up, so premiums will go up. insurance commissioners in individual states -- >> neil: the president said that wouldn't happen. quite the opposite. you're saying that's wrong. >> i don't think that's the case at all, the underlike premium costs are driven but underlying health costs and in a environment where emergency room utilization and costs triple, mris ha...