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Dollars in increased taxes, we also saw many regulations, one of the most burdensome were regulation that is were way beyond that were ever intended. label requirements, now on deli, grocery delis, any food establishment in the country. i am leaving an effort to bring common sense menu labeling, we are not getting into the debate as to whether the calorie counts are going to be required but do it in a common sense way. for example, you look at a pizza shop that is 34 million combinations of pizza and the fda says, no, you can't put an ipad in there and allow the customer to go in deciding what...

There. the thing that's more onerous about this regulation is it's pretty expensive. they're talking about $24 million as you said in the first year alone and the problem here is that a lot of vending machine operators are small business owners. 3/4 of them have fewer than three employees that operate these businesses. it's not a terribly onerous regulation, right? everyone likes the idea of having information, but at the same time we're talking about reducing obesity rates or calories by a couple of tick tacks and at the same time costing over 10,000 small business owners thousands of dollars...

Improve quality, change the work force, it's got menu labeling so that we reduce the obesity rate in this country. it's doing many, many more things than medicare ever did. i would say outside of the exchange, not everything is working perfectly but we're certainly seeing changes in the health system in a positive direction. a lot of focus on reducing hospital infections. a lot of focus on reducing re-admission rates, a lot of effort to control costs. we recently did a poll with the biggest hospitals in the country. two-thirds of them thought that the health care system would be better by 2020...

That are overweight, end up being obese, and that leads to type ii diabetes, a disease they never diagnosed in children before, and that leads to problems the doctors were talking about later on. >> and we don't have a system to take care of the problem. therein lies the problem. >> zeke, you're trying to define the president's health care plan and help people understand it. how is this new news going to affect the way insurance companies have to respond, and can you already hear the complaints they don't want to cover -- that this is going to be a big issue because they don't want to cover th...

Adjudicate the legal angle here, the moral angle, but it is kind of strange that you can go to 7-eleven, a big corporation, and buy a 28,000-ounce drink, and then you can't go next door to the same bodega and buy the same thing, because 7-lefb has larger power and has lobbied for the same thing in the past. so in that sense, jeff is right, there's a tangle of weird regulations and loopholes. but it is a weird, slipperly slope. mayor bloomberg has also talked about banning large-sized popcorn in movie theaters. he's talked about salts, you know, regulating how much salts restaurants use in cert...