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Patches. and have a permanent repeal so we can have stability and security in the medicare program. >> neil: what if you don't get that, doctor? >> well, the reality is that on march 1, the cuts went through for one day of 21%. you saw physicians having to respond the only way they could to shield their practices. they started to not accept any new medicare patients. elective cases started to be canceled, and frankly, it wound up having physicians decide ding do they lay off their personnel? we look at this as a jobs bill, the practicing physician in america is trying to keep their office open...

Medicine. it would free up $650 billion a year. i don't know why we wouldn't want to do that in a positive way that allows us -- >> i'm confused because gallup is a polling organization. the studies i've done by people who study health care say that really tort reform, when you're talk about practicing defensive medicine, about doctors trying to avoid lawsuits. so, the studies that i've seen show that's no more than 2% of the overall health care spending. >> actually, they vary somewhere between 2%. gallup's was the most generous at 25%. as a practicing physician, i know that it's more than 2%...

Illness and if they developed the flu should take it and the criteria of who should take it has changed over the yearses. well, finally, we have gotten to the point where the advisory committee to the government or the cdc has said, that everybody over the age of 6 months, should get a flu shot. and, as a practicing physician, i think that that is excellent advice. the only exceptions, of course are people who are allergic to egg or egg protein, chicken protein, and so on, but if you don't have allergies, and can tolerate the flu shot, they are so pure, these days, that the reactions from them...

Point, so that's what we're looking at. >> it is a scary way to think about it in that framing, brandy. dr. torres, facebook came out with a statement yesterday saying it's taking agresive action against misinformation about covid vaccines including removing more than 18 million pieces of covid misinformation. there's tons of stuff out there. there's clearly a disconnect between what facebook is doing and what the white house wants. you as a practicing physician, how do you see online misinformation impacting health decisions and do you think what the white house is doing goes far enough? >>...

But this is a smart individual who has smart people around him. and i will trust that they will make the correct decisions. >> so here's my question, this is actually a great example, right? so you were a practicing physician, as i understand it. you had a very successful medical practice. >> very successful. >> you left that medical practice behind entirely, right? you didn't give it over to your kids, it's not something -- >> they weren't licensed to practice medicine in the state of texas, so that would have been hard. >> that would have been problematic. this isn't just an on paper, arm's ...