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There are many, many ways and the input right now, you know, science is a moving object and you know, i go to medical meetings and there's a lot of of presentations and the data is looked at and doctors look at it and it's recommended. but the way that things are happening now, it's too fast and furious. we have the preventive task force every six months. don't do mammogram for women at age of 40, do it at age 50. so on and so forth. between these task forces and these types of tests that doctors are being placed in. and remember, in another ten or 15 years from now i would say maybe 70% of al...

This is their first public big cut? >> number one, i'll take roger's $5,000 raise. number two is that again, this was-- >> not based on performance. >> what has been lost in the brouhaha of the young children, that's key here that needs to be explained. >> alisyn: all right, thank you very much, gentlemen for the debate, always outstanding. great to see you. new fallout from the president's health care law, up next, why some doctors fear na this new mortality index could force them to choose whether their patients live or die. we'll explain that. and a cupcake controversy in one elementary sch...

Went over there and told her manager and called the cops and waiting for the cops to show up. delaying, making sure to feed them and giving them drinks. great story. >> it is a great story and i'm guessing the waitress didn't get a tip, but the patron got karma, that's even better. thanks, trace. >>. >> reporter: it is. >> alisyn: a new mortality index is raising a concern about the new health care law, they're afraid that federal checklists will force them to choose whether their patients live or die. we'll explain that. and we're tracking a major winter storm slamming the northeast and knock...

>> alisyn: that then the government is suggesting that you not get your patients tested for certain things? >> well, my peers in government. you remember, this is coming from other bureaucrat particular physicians that are part of the solution, right? so, they're going to suggest to me, now, look, in my piece i said, well, these doctors with these tests are they going to be employed by, let's say, insurance agencies or federal insurance agencies, they'll say i want to do a colonoscopy on this patient. wait a minute did you do the test. >> alisyn: what's the mortality index. >> i'll say 19 oh, ...