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Co-pay like i have, maybe you're thinking i really don't need to go this time. >> i'm curious if you and your colleagues have talked about this or are talking about it, and the statistics by the wall street journal show every medical sector is taking a hit. we've got patient visits down, drug prescription down, procedures down at lab testing companies as well, even elective surgeries like knee replacements, they are dropping. is this something you're talking about and concerned about? >> my division chief sent us this article on the day it came out, so yes, we are talking about t. we are talki...

Prescribe drugs, open up for procedures, anything like that? >> well, i think what that article said was that people are seeing their physicians less and they're getting fewer new prescriptions filled. so that's also affecting pharmacies. let's say you're a newly diagnosed hypertensive or you have newly diagnosed diabetes and you just can't get that medicine filled, that's not good for the patient. clearly it's not good for pharmacies because they are also in the business of filling prescriptions. i'm more concerned about what this has to do with patient health. i don't want patients not to co...

Women have are also implicated in this. is that because of infection? >> infection is a risk and i'm going to talk about that. it may not be that the c-sections themselves are the cause because c-sections are increasing for a reason. women over 40, women with hypertension, women who are at risk have c-sections and the result is that it increases the risk of something like postsurgical infection. we've only got about 30 seconds. how to fix this, i know you brought along a kit that mothers can use. i hope women concerned about this will come to www.hospital infection.org. we have 15 steps you ca...

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Not. but it's a fee -- >> for every employee -- every dependent who is covered with insurance. thirdly, patients are bracing for big change because this law is paid for more than half of it is paid for with medicare. so hospitals are already pulling back, laying off nurses, spreading the nursing care thinner so patients know they're going to wait longer for care. i'm already advising patients, if you know you're going into the hospital, try to cobble together enough money to hire a private duty nurse the first night when you need help. >> why do you say that? >> there will be fewer nurses on t...