and hca, one of the first for-profit chains. jeff goldsmith was a consultant with hca in its early days. >> it is an exceptional institution, and i, you know, i mean, i say that as a shareholder. >> sullivan: what is the secret to their success that other hospitals should be learning from? >> operating discipline. they're very focused, they don't run off and chase rabbs. they don't get distracted by the shiny object. they've stayed in the business of managing hospital and if you go visit their corporate offices, it's basically the same corporate office they had 40 years ago, when i worked with them. >> sullivan: hca bought its first hospital in 1968, just years after the marketplace was flooded with revenue from two new government health insurance programs, medicare and medicaid. the hospital industry had long been dominated by nonprofits. now entrepreneurs saw opportunity, and companies like hca emerged as key drivers of competition. >> what began happening in the '70s is that you had corporations that began acquiring hospitals

. >> hca inclined our interview requesting. they said this is difficult for hospitals throughout the u.s. we're doing everything we can for new nurses. things were corrected quickly. >> i considered leaving. >> they feel the business side at good sam is getting in the way of the main mission. >> human lives. you have to drive is from the other side. hca confirmed inspectors had been here but did not specify why. >> thank you, candace. if you have time, let's see her go to nbc6.com. amazing to watch this. ryan murphy is heading back to the olympics. bryce men ford is going. >> how about the headliners who didn't. 36-year-old ryan lochte finished second to last. on the track, stanford alumn grant fischer finished second in the 10,000 meter race. he is heading to tokyo. right around the corner right here on cnbc bay area. >> let's bring jeff in. the temperatures are starting to cool. he has father's day and a baseball game. >> we had that super, super hot weather. it's an area of high pressure just a little bit more there onto the

hca confirms inspectors have been here but did not specify why. with the investigative unit, i'm candice nguyen. >>> we're following a wildfire up in shasta county. it's already burned more than 400 acres and it's spreading. it's being called the calfire and you see it right there. it's forcing evacuations from the area. that's the mill valley area of shasta county north of redding. here in the bay area, if you are smelling smoke, it is not from that fire, right? >> the willow fire. you probably saw it in the skies. we'll look at the air quality coming up. we're about 12 hours away from the start of summer, and it looks like it. that fog has made a big comeback. 58 degrees right now. wind coming off the ocean and we'll see more of that ocean air the next couple days. san rafael 63 degrees. livermore 70s to low 80s today. the tri-valley did reach the low 90s, cooling quickly to 70 degrees. and there you see the distance. some of that smoke i'm talking about moving the willow fire. these are the skies of san jose, 68 degrees. speaking of the willow

hazen declined to talk to nbc news hca saying in part, "we value our colleagues and are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits." and yet the great national divide between the income of those at the top and those at the bottom persists the heads of corporations like ge, starbucks and acuity brands received more than 1,000 times their average workers last year, with walgreen's then ceo earning over 500 times. none of those ceos agreed to speak with nbc news each company saying their practices align with their shareholders' interests and that the ceo will take a hit if their stock price falls. but since 1978 ceo compensation has risen over 1,000%. compared with only a 14% increase for average workers. in theory, ceos are handsomely paid to increase a company's value. >> the problem is not that somebody's getting paid a lot of money. the problem is they get paid whether they do well or whether they do badly. >> reporter: glenn kelman, the ceo of redfin, a real estate brokerage firm, is bucking the trend. under kelman's leadership redfin more than tripled in value to

then today hca sent us this statement, saying the report from regulators was missing 27 pages. when they read the whole report they realized medicare issued notice of termination which means it risked losing its medicare contracts due an unknown number of violations. both are serious penalties, but hca says it's less-severe because none of the issues caused serious injury or death to a patient. we are waiting for regular laters to hake it many public. >> thank you very much, candice. dave cortezi sent us a statement and says he continues to be extremely concerned and will be making very specific recommendations in response to the situation at good samaritan hospital in the next few days. now candice and our investigative unit will continue to follow the story. they'll update it when warranted. we'll have it on our website as well, nbcbayarea.com. >>> new details to share with you about the plane that crashed into a monterey neighborhood. we've learned two people and a dog were on board. the cessna crashed three minutes after takeoff yesterday morning. it destroyed a home owned

until 1996, when hca acquired it. that's when things started going south, rossman says with staffing and safety issues reaching a boiling point during the pandemic. >> i had a patient that was pregnant with covid and i was stuck in that room for over three hours trying to get -- trying to get somebody's attention so i could get supplies that i needed. i mean, i was afraid for her life. >> reporter: hga's stock about doubled during the pandemic, according to three lawmakers, hca reported $3.7 billion in profits last year. wang says she feels misled. >> like recently, they used covid as an excuse to say we've lost so much money that we have to constrain. >> reporter: what's the hospital saying? our team reached out to good samaritan's executive team but did not get a response. hca declined our interview requests and sent a statement saying in part, the nursing staffing shortage is a difficult challenge for hospitals throughout the u.s. we're doing everything in our power to recruit new nurses. we self-reported some inst

but she feels hca is responsible. a hospital spokesperson sent as you statement saying we should have been more proactive. we are sincerely sorry. >> how could you not value life? it's awful. >> reporter: this inside source worked at regional medical center. the person is speaking anonymously because they're still in the industry. as a coordinator who had direct contact with the facility's morgue, they say for years, they witnessed these problems at least several times a month. >> we have six bodies. the transport orderlies -- they have to be at a certain at that. >> reporter: so you would have two just lying outside a refrigerator? >> correct. >> reporter: is that supposed to happen? >> reporter: what is the worst thing that you saw with this problem? >> reporter: melting bodies. >> reporter: in the months we've been reporting, good samaritan and regional, they have never agreed to an interview. the hospital spokesperson added, we did not live up to our commitment. sgek should have done better. we have investigate in

hca also agreed to a 10% wage increase to help retain experienced nurses. >>> let's go to our olympic coverage now. it's day 10 of the games. less than a week left but a whole lot of competition jam packed in the next few days. we'll begin with a major headline today. simone biles is back in. >> usa gymnastics just confirmed that biles will compete in the balance beam finals tomorrow. biles appeared in good spirits earlier today when she walked from her hotel to the olympics gymnastics center. she's cheering on her teammates in the floor exercise final. she won gold in this event back in 2016. competing in the balance beam tomorrow is her last scheduled final at these games after pulling out of many events because of what she called her twisties health issue. >>> another loss in soccer. the u.s. women's national team lost to canada 1-0. they'll now face australia in the bronze medal game. >>> in track and field, now, the olympics more than any other sporting event is always more than just about who wins and loses. the stage is so big and it magnifies some of the human drama. >> some o

health care demand has improved even as the pandemic continues 48% for hca. and stifel for more on the call and other top calls of the day go over to cnbc.com/pro now we go over to rahel solomon for a cnbc update. >> hi, kelly here's what's happening at this hour federal banking regulators are working to regulate rules that go over hundreds of billions of loans. the changes to the community reinvestment act could be changed as of today. marjorie taylor green said her 12 hour suspension from twitter is a communist style attack on free speech. it posted false claims that vaccines are killing people. >>> the phone of french president emmanuel macron was targeted in the pegasus spyware case and as many as 200 americans reporting symptoms associated with the so called havana syndrome linked to possible attacks on u.s. embassies around the world. recent cases go to berlin and vienna >>> tonight on "the news," what types of attacks are they and who might be behind them which airs at 7 p.m. eastern with shepard smith. >> rahel, thank you. >>> netflix earnings are out

hospital systems tenet, hca, advent health, cleveland clinic, according to "the wall street journal" dropping the vaccine mandates after a federal judge temporarily halted the biden mandate for those health care workers. your reaction to that story? >> i can tell you i was applauding the decisions of these employers rescinding vaccine mandates. as you know governor desantis and i in florida have been pushing back hard on this federal overreach, these unlawful mandates. there are really three areas where they're trying to force these vaccine mandates on people, whether it is using federal contractors, whether it is using hospitals that receive medicare or medicaid, or through an osha rule and we've seen court after court enjoin these unlawful mandates and i think it is leaving the white house reeling because they know it is not lawful. elizabeth: you know the white house is nowdown shifting on the biden vaccine mandate. they are changing the narrative after four courts enjoined it. they're increasingly touting the testing part of biden's osha rule. the white house press secretary sayi

when they can leverage that rate no matter what the hca does it doesn't make a difference because the providers can do what they want. >> when you say providers demean insurance providers for healthcare providers or the doctors themselves? >>caller: no no no. insurance at kaiser permanente. >> that's interesting because we hear medicare is called the 800-pound gorilla which means when medicare set the rate for something, the private insurers tend to follow. because medicare is such a big player in the market so it's interesting to hear it is the other way around and with the private insurers set the rateu the government has to follow. thatlo is intriguing to me. host: do you have a follow-up? >>caller: medicare does rule the rates. she is right butn we have thousands upon thousands of my state people that are not medicare or medicaid eligible that's with a leverage happens. people that are under that medicare age, yes they can leverage whatever they want. >> i see. that make sense. host: follow her reporting at nytimes.com also on twitter thank you for the conversation we appreciate h

the parent company hca health care said is it reached a deal with the nurse's union. it has agreed to recruit 80 additional register nurses and create 43 new positions that can rotate between good sam and it's sister facility, regional medical center they agree to a 10% wage increase. >>> new evacuation orders are in place after the dixie fire jumped containment lines. firefighters say the area around greenville northeast of the fire is threatened more than 248,000 acres have burned right now, so far, it's 35% contained. >> we have slight changes in our weather, i'm not sure if it's bringing relief for firefighters though. >> up there it's been a tough go, they have seen the temperatures in the 80s and 90s, and could use rain. it's not coming our way. we are tracking a beautiful day tomorrow, and we will also take a look at the wild fire smoke -- so let's set up the weather maps, what is happening right now? we have changes and this is great news for us. we have a system developing out here in the pacific and it's going sit and linger in the same spot for the next thr

the parent company hca healthcare now says, in part, the findings demonstrate areas where we have work to do and we are committed to addressing each and every one of them. we had already self-reported some of the findings to the state, many are due to the national nursing shortage amid increasing patient volume. our investigative unit last month documented staffing violations at good sam along with concerns about patient care. nurses spoke with us about the workload. we still don't know if this or something else led to the federal notice or what the hospital will do to mitigate the situation. you can go to our investigative unit section from our home page to view this story and link to the prior one. >>> happening today, what may be the bay area's last mass vaccination site closing its doors this morning. san francisco's miscone center is shutting down. >> nbc bay area's cierra johnson is live in san francisco. all this coming as the covid cases statewide begin to climb. >> reporter: hi. yeah, that's exactly right. when the miscone center first opened back in february it was busy, mayo

hca said patient safety is a priority and mothers and babies are in safe hands with our top-notch physicians and care teams. it's not just the maternity ward we are hearing about. our team has talked to nearly a dozen sources inside the hospital, who say problems at good sam run much deeper. tonight, at 11:00, i will have a full investigation into the facility's overall performance. and profits by its parent company. with the investigative unit. i'm candace nguyen. >> looking forward to seeing that. thank you, candace. >>> up next, it's not snakes on a plane but near them. how many of them are living on developed land at sfo? >>> plus, it's not just the athletes getting ready for tokyo. photographers, too. and there is an exhibit in the bay area that's capturing all the great moments from past olympics. we're going to share it with you. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. it has been so hot the past two days. but a little bit of fog, by tomorrow morning will help to drop temperatures. we'll talk about the cooling on the way. i will see you in about six minutes. wanna help kids get thei

. >> all right we don't we talk about the next one this is hca health care. in that case, you're voting with management what are the proxy issues that bear here? >> yeah, so what we're trying to do is call balls and strikes a little bit and to engage -- engage early before the vote takes place, frankly, so that you and others can highlight these issues and folks can -- folks can discuss them in the case of hca, there's a shareholder proposal that calls for them to better link compensation to health care outcomes in the hcadoes a terrific job. they run great hospitals we've spent a lot of time looking at their compensation plans. and we believe they do, amongst the best jobs of doing precisely that so, we think that while that proposal may be appropriate for some of their peers, it's not for hca. so, we're trying to call balls and strikes. and we think -- we think it would be a mistake to vote for that proposal. >> with kellogg, you're going to be voting for a shareholder proposal that goes against management as well what's your issue with kellogg >> well, our

. >> everybody wants to boy that or tenet, should be buying hca which is going to bull doug in california. >> caller: yeah, jim, thanks for taking my call. >> what is up? >> caller: few months ago took pick position in zoom info technology at 42 reason i'm calling, what do you know about the company, is it a buy, hold or sell, thank you >> i think companies look to me a lot like sales force bunch that look like sales force. lot of them are good, zoom info is good. i'm a sales force guy. travel trust zones if you follow what we're doing in cnbc investment club, see why i like it more than any of these. joel in pennsylvania. >> caller: how are you >> great, how are syou? >> caller: explain thoughts on mogo >> free credit score, says to me, intuit, one you should be in, intu, don't miss quarters, keep coming on, do a fantastic job, that's one i want you in, intuit alexander in california. >> caller: jimmy chill >> in the house. what's happening >> caller: i had a question regards to a stock, ticker symbol dngo. >> controversial okay this is one of those stocks, the volume such i think it fee

parent company hca health care saysdings demonstrate areas where we have work to do and committed to address each and every one of them. we had self-reported some findings to the state,many are due to the national nursing shortage and increasing patient. our investigative unit documented violations with concerns of patient care. nurses spoke about the workload. we don't know if this or something else led to the federal notice or what the hospital will do. you can head to the investigative unit section on the home page for this story. and link to the prior story. 6:34. >>> now to the money and prices for things days seemingly going through the roof. we have new numbers this morning to explain why it seems you pay more everywhere. >> "today in the bay" sharon katsuda is live. this is a perfect example of skyrocketing prices. >> reporter: that's right. i talked to a driver who just took off and the price is $4.60 a gallon. they're saying they still have to pump the gas because they have to go to work. here's how bay area prices looked over the one-year period that ended in june accordin

. >> cooking meat at high temperatures produces cancer-causing chemicals called hcas. what's a pitmaster to do? marinating it did, marinating meat with rich anti-oxidant spices can help. marinade containing rosemary and thyme can reuse the amount of carcinogens and cooked meat up to 87%. and you can make a marinade yourself using your own herbs, basil, rosemary and choose leaner meats. instead of burgers or brats try chicken or fish. avoid burning the meat on the outside. that's when cancer-causing chemicals are released. those black char marks might look good, but that's what you want to avoid. flip your meat frequently. finally, grill up some vegetables. they're good four and no cancer-causing chemicals released. >> thanks to jacqueline howard for that report. the next hour of "new day" starts right now. ♪ >>> welcome to your "new day" and your new weekend. this is saturday, july 3

. >> in a statement the hospital's parent company, hca health care, called the nurses' statements misleading. it says declining birth rates in santa clara county resulted in the personnel reductions and the hospital remains appropriately staffed. but it's the second black eye recently for good samaritan, its executive team accused of allowing los gatos teachers to jump the vaccine line before they were officially eligible as a thank you for helping the hospital raise money for ppe. the chief medical officer was disciplined and its ceo recently resigned, citing career advancement opportunities. >>> facebook rolling out a feature that allows you to show your support for covid vaccines. it's a facebook frame where people can show that they got vaccinated. facebook believes if users see more people they trust get vaccinated, they'll feel better about getting the vaccination itself. the profile frames are available beginning today. >>> let's get a check of our forecast. another beautiful day. things are starting to shift, right, jeff? >> yeah, certainly, janelle and raj. we've been with some summ

for the company which is cash flow and you're getting very important names like kroger, like moderna, hca health care, tjx, companies that cfra also has very strong recommendations on. so these are good quality stocks. liz: it is great to see you, sam. thank you for your picks. [closing bell rings] here it comes with the closing bell. nasdaq closing above 15,000 for the first time ever. it is time for "kudlow". ♪. david: hello, everyone, welcome to "kudlow" david asman in for kudlow. the president woe speak at noon, that he would speak at 2:00, 2:30. then we're told during this or the next hour.

the daily wire reports internal hca healthcare documents outline the new training which could last up to two and-a-half years. the outline describes a, quote, name that bias card game and the recommended reading list which includes robin deangelo's white fragileity. they operate healthcare sites in the u.s. and the u.k. todd: 24 minutes after the hour now, bikers out in a show of support this memorial day weekend to honor our troops. amvets annual rolling to remember ride raising awareness for critical issues facing our nation's veterans. here with more, amvets national director, joe chenelly. great to see you as always. this is more than just a motorcycle ride. why is this ride so important? >> absolutely. good morning. memorable and meaningful memorial day to you all. we have thousands of motorcycles, patriots from all over the united states and even from overseas come together, this is something really personal to us. this is something that means a lot to each person who came out and who ran through the national mall on motorcycles to be heard, to let everyone know how many missing

the partnership with hca health care gives patients access to health care. it will make algorithms to monitor patients and make better decisions. they will remove all identifying information before giving the data to google so thaw won't know who you are they collect data from 32 million visits and has more than 2,000 sites in 20 states go you have medical concerns >> i do. we have law passed in 1996, hippa that was set up to protect our privacy. it was inacted two years before google was created it was a law that was aimed at paper records. we used to get patient information down in the basement, lugging up a big paper chart, if they could find it and this law basically said don't share that information now we have electronic record, huge jvolumes of data. this is like asking a navigation system from a world war i war airplane to navigate us up to the space shuttle. completely different worlds. we have to update our privacy protection and inform con sent requirements >> who gets the data and how can they use it? >> well, the positive side is when you have b

read them case in point, this morning the "wall street journal" reported that google's partner with hca, the gigantic hospital chain to take patient records and use them to make health care algorithm to produce better outcomes the patient data will be stripped of identifying information so there is no hippa violation. there is data that can be stored in google l cloud and analyzed so the hospitals can figure out how to do a better job with patients this could help develop medicines without additional human guinea pigs. i know ibm tried to do something similar with watson but weren't able to pull it off. this is a great idea but it can't work unless you get buy in from the health care professionals, which ibm didn't have if watson landed the biggest possible client now going to use artificial intelligence to help them do a better job the great thing about the move from google, they are not trumping anything here they talk about algorithm, something makes your eyesglaze over totally non-professional i've been waiting for google to do something big in health care besides partnering with de

case in point, hca nation's largest hospital chain. this morning the company reported a dramatic level. people are done post poening nonurgent. stock rallies 31 points for 13%. there's some real pin action here i know the surgical rally is hard today nothing else like a proxy for elective surgery only up 17% for the year i think you take that one to the bank, especially as intuitive expands to a host of different kinds of surgery same for medical device makers medtronic, i continue to like it my favorite is abve 4.5% reveal. i'm giving it more a little bit more than two years ago abbvie shelled out $60 million to buy allergen. sentences since then abbvie has been under managed now allergen's great assets are shining through, including botox. now though people who want to look good when they go outside don't have the mask are coming back and the numbers could be just humongous i think botox use is going to spike gigantically around the globe. or how about carnival. announces putting 65% of the ships out to sea by the end of the year it'

looking at the great reaction to earnings and you're seeing it in names like chipotle, restaurants, hca, the hospitals, so i'm always looking for what companies are killing it. today is square with gargantuan earnings and sales. so i really don't change based on the calendar. i don't even know what date today is. charles: okay. all right. you hit a whole lot of some of my follow-up questions so, let me go to sylvia. i love it though, when you speak it is like music to my ears. let me ask you a compound, question, sylvia, a about the calendar and b about materials. they were the best-performing sector on friday. i thought they were set up for a big day today, because of the infrastructure deal. you know the wall street saying, sell on the news is. that baked in the cake and what changes are you making if any we're in august now? >> to tackle the first question i'm headache making changes not just because of august 1st because i think big tech is unloved and undervalued. earnings were absolutely epic. i think earnings play out in the market a year or so later. margins are great. these com

. >> get it to a name like hca, less than a market multiple. looking for a global stock, thermofisher, tmo. one of the great growth stocks. 26 times forward earnings. charles: absolutely fa none noll. one of the best companies ever. made a major acquisition. health care last to go read today. you might be on to something. you guys are great. mad scram dell out of afghanistan. hundreds run towards planes. obviously hopes escaping the taliban while even more u.s. troops are expected to land. we have congressman mark green who served in afghanistan and iraq and was on the mission that actually captured saddam hussein. niche that patel on the fed's next move. and should we just ignore the noise? cool it with this. and relieve it with this. but new preparation h soothing relief spray is the 21st century way to do all three. even touch free. preparation h. get comfortable with it. (struggling vehicle sounds) think premium can't be capable? think again. ♪ (energetic music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ introducing the first ever at4 lineup. premium and capabl

hca giving strong guidance for rest of the year and moments ago, house speaker pelosi's office confirming that one of her senior aides tested positive for covid-19 after meeting with texas state legislators last week. a spokesman says that pelosi had no contact with the infect ed aide you're now up to date. back to you. >>> we're closely watching all those covid headlines. we're coming up, an ugly day fo stocks but not everything was hit equally as hard. dom chu has that for us. >> it was something just mentioned by rahel about interest rates, that may play a part in the story, there were three key parts of the technology trade, the technology market overall, that held up relatively well in yesterday's sell-off and maybe even as you pointed out ended the day in the green. first of all, i've chosen three ets to represent those parts of the market the semiconductor trade, smh for that etf and then cloud computing, the ticker is clou for that etf and ishares, igv. each of these did take a leg lower, but finished the day either just off the low, just off the highs, in the green, by the way, t

agree with you it's a niche one that i'm always trying to find i spent too much time looking at the hcas, i need to go to steve in new jersey. >> hey, jim, how you doing tonight? >> i'm doing well, thank you, how about you? >> doing well. you mentioned auto retail stocks a few times. >> yes >> i was doing research, and i came up with this one, what's your opinion of asberry autogroup. >> it's real good. it's not the same. this is a southern company but i like asberry, lithia had such an unbelievable number the other day. carvana, auto nation, but lithia at the start of the show, i think lithia is great. richard in washington. richard. >> booyah. >> whoa. >> mr. cramer, i love you so much >> thank you >> you're the best, anyway, this company i'm trying to ask you about is actually going to be the online market play, and digital payment provider in the whole africa, like over 11 countries, it's junior technologies i really wanted to know. >> i don't know. there's something about, i like micardo libre, and i like how ebay has turned around shopify is amazing how about we go to craig in penn

universal pre-k, childcare, extension of the child tax credit, climate change investment, strengthen the hca, how they're paying for it taxes on the corporations and wealthiest persons. paid leave is now totally out. what do you make of how this shook out? >> not as good. i liked it better when it was $3.5 trillion for a couple of reasons. the core problem all the way along is the democrats unwillingness and inability to prioritize. in the original proposal, family leave, electrical chargers, healthcare and vision care for seniors, it was a grab bag. they had to cut it back to make joe manchin happy. instead of saying let's pick out what we really need to do for this country and do it well, they cut everything back a little. there's so much stuff that's sunset that will end in a couple of years, to me the most valuable sickle proposal is the child tax credit. lifts kids out of poverty, and when you don't grow up in poverty you do well in school, so a big education reform. that's extended for a paltry year now. the aca, healthcare subsidies, five years, so future congresses could get rid of a

perlin for the way that our front-line workers and hca helped you prepare for the vaccine rollout and the innovation and data insight that you and your leadership team are providing with so many patients. it's so clear. i am so grateful to everyone for alll the questions. we could spend another hour answering all the questions. i just appreciate the engaged in and we do live in the greatest country in the world so again personally thank you from me in my role at pepperdine university as well as the ca health care. resident that to you. >> thank you deanna. chairperson smith for your leadership in this evening together i'm reminded as i listened to mr. sub 20 talk about from the time they receivedy the formula, the dna o come up with an actual vaccine it takes me two days to do under a pile that come from learning what the virus was to creating a vaccine in just 42 days to create, to get it to production and then in 10 months and it wasn't just moderna it was you dr. hahn and your colleagues over the course of 10 months from the time we learned about it to the time it was going into pe

own a lot of big cap or own a little big cap, but you've got to own it you can't do nothing but own hca and honeywell. >> what's really on the line, though, jim, if you you consider the fact that, you know, brets in the market has certainly narrowed these stocks have started to pick up a lot more of the weight a lot more pressure is on these earnings reports let's not forget, jim, what happened last quarter. these companies absolutely knocked the cover off the ball home run after home run after home run, and what'd the stocks do you remember what the stocks did, though? they went down most of them went down >> no, that's a good call. i don't like stocks coming in hot. i mean, remember, the bank stocks got a little bit of a selloff, so they were okay, but it may depend that day about what the ten-year's doing. the ten-year's still in charge for a lot of people. by the way, we're seeing some industrials not doing as well as they should. i liked honey well's quarter, but they got to sell that. and kimberly-clark, they had some raw costs that were disappointing and they also had a slowdown

here it's hca. couple of upgrades today why? the democrats, they like health care this is one, by the way, that would actually take off if we saw georgia go democrat. interesting. >> we're going to -- i think we're going to get an answer to that maybe tomorrow morning, jim. we'll see. it will be a lot easier. >> i hope so. >> we'll take a short break as the markets have reversed. dow is up 100. no one likes to choose between safe or sporty. modern or reliable. we want both - we want a hybrid. so do banks. that's why they're going hybrid with ibm. a hybrid cloud approach helps them personalize experiences with watson ai while helping keep data secure. ♪ ♪ from banking to manufacturing, businesses are going with a smarter hybrid cloud, using the tools, platform and expertise of ibm. ♪ ♪ >>> there is going to be a change at the top of qualcomm. long-time ceo steve mollenkoff going to step down to be replaced by isancrtio amon both gentlemen will be our guests coming up at the top of the hour >>> let's get to jim and stop tr

thematically, i am continuing to like the normalization of consumer activity, starbucks, hca, for example, the digital revolution i think it's going to continue as a strong secular trend. adobe, semiconductor, i think they will continue to be great stocks in particular, taking advantage of some of the laggards that have been occurring in the market during this corrective rolling, corrective process, particularly in the travel area. we like mastercard, expedia, disney, and i think as we look out a year from now interest rates will be higher, banks will be higher and jpmorgan and ally financial. >> all right plenty of laggards to look among, tom thank you very much, tom and barry. >> thank you >>> as we go to break, a look at the roadmap the rest of the hour including retail sales posting that surprise gain as consumers show strength despite the delta fears. >> and the country's largest real estate financing firm we will talk the return to work trade with the ceo of marcus. >>> and a lot more on yesterday's launch in florida with the administrator of nasa, bill nelson, as "squawk on the str

so hospital operators like hca health care and tenet healthcare, they're doing this, as well as some non-profits like advent health and the cleveland clinic. it's a lot. it is making people's head spin, neil. neil: to say it mildly. thank you, jackie deangelis. is all of this overkill or properly being cautious? let's go to dr. robert redfield, you remember him, the former cdc director. good to have you back with us. what do you make of some of these precautions companies are taking? >> well, neil, i think the most important thing we can all do is try to make sure we're vaccinated and we keep our vaccine status up, now requiring at least a third injection at this point. i do think that each of the companies can decide you know, what the roll is for masking and other mitigation steps within them. we're clearly going to be in for a tough couple, i think, a couple of months with the omicron variant coming which is much more transmissible, replicates at a higher rate. so i just think, trying to get people vaccinated, maintaining their vaccine status, get them boosted, trying to bring in

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alphabet's division opened up a really important initiative trying to be able to figure out request hca, which is a prominent partner of medtronic, something that would give you the empirical data, you ought to use this medtronic product, that, will you be involved in the most revolutionary behind the scenes depiction of what can be done between artificial intelligence and medicine. >> you're hitting on a huge theme. we're called it data enabled therapies. the use of data and artificial intelligence has the opportunity to transform, so we're very proud of the fact at medtronic r that we serve 80 million patients every year. we can take that to 800million until the next couple of years, and we spend a lot of time, we've got data that's like gold coming from our devices, whether it be a chronic condition, like a cardiac condition, on our pacemakers or implantable defibrillators, we're getting very valuable , sensitive and specific data from patients, and we have unique data in the hospital around the surgical procedures, and this data is gold, and we plan to mine that gold, and there will

some of the largest hospital systems out there, hca, tenet healthcare are dropping the mandates because their staff are leaving. they're either leaving because they did not want to get vaccinated, they found higher pay, traveling nurses make a lot of money or burned out. i have numbers from september, give you a sense how many workers in hospitals are not vaccinated, 30%. stuart: not vaccinated? lauren: over 2000 hospitals surveyed were unvaccinated, correct. stuart: a lot of those 30% are not going to work. so the hospitals having to drop the vaccination requirement. you could see it coming a mile, couldn't you? you can't restrict the workforce like that when there is a labor shortage and push them out the door. lauren: i know. stuart: these were the people we were cheering a year ago. lauren: that is the argument they said. i was a hero before the vaccine. i never got could have covid. now they have immunity. most of those people -- stuart: instead of backing off on the vaccine mandate we have cases of a lot more companies delaying the return to the office. they're going in the other

s&p 500 winners, that would be hca holdings, i see a lot of health companies there. >> the reason is the j and j story, an agreement to put aside $26 million to go to the claims. they thought the amount would be. >> >> the healthcare company series. 270, 280 points up for the dow industrials, that is where we are. it was a successful launch. bezos will speak to the media an hour from now. we will carry that live. that was history in the making. also ahead, look at this scene from dell rio, texas, hundreds of migrants trying to force their way into the country. bill mulligan continues reporting from the border. he will join us in our next hour. one of the country's top media christian group says kids age 2 and up must mask up for school or day care. i will ask doctor matt mccarthy if he agrees with that. he joined me next. ♪♪ sell, - you should ten-x it. - ten-x it? ten-x is the world's largest online commercial real estate exchange. you can close with more certainty. and twice as fast. if i could, i'd ten-x everything. like a coffee run... or fedora shopping. talk to your broker.

big tech's latest push into healthcare, google now with a new partnership with hca healthcare to develop health algorithms for patients, amazon reportedly considering opening brick and mortar pharmacies to compete with walgreens and cvs. joining me now is disruptive tech research founder, lou basenese. thank you for being here. we've been talking about the marriage of technology and healthcare for a couple years now and by all accounts i think it's very positive to see what's going on in terms of making our lives better, getting in front of disease. but the issue comes up with data and what these companies will end up doing with our data. what's your take on the marriage of healthcare and tech? we're seeing these changes, amazon and google. >> yeah, look, i would rather google has my data than facebook. we know facebook has violated everyone's privacy. in reality, we're in an era of tech biquity where tech companies infiltrate every aspect of our lives. tech is not just tech anymore. every business relies on it to operate, into pharmacies is a natural extension. as you mentioned, amazon

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