Guest its remarkable the United States of america we have aon shortage of really important idicines. This has been going on for 20 years and we have had hundreds and hundreds. One of the medicines that is in shortage right now is a really important blood center that hospitals use every single day. There was an article in a local newspaper about a boston physician saying i dont know if we can do cardiac surgery two weeks from now if we dont have this product. We are walking on a very thin line. We have had shortages of chemotherapy to treat cancer in children and adults. We have had shortages in right now theres a shortage of her really important antibiotic for lifethreatening infections. These are lifeanddeath medicines. Sometimes we can get them and we are rationing medicine in the United States of america. Its really quite remarkable. Host is this hyperbole or isar this a real existing probl . We hear a lot of talk from a lot of Different Industries saying the sky is falling here. Is
The country exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History tv im the road. With the support of the local Cable Television provider, we visited only four cities in the last year. And over the next two hours, we will look and highlight from some of the stops. We begin our special feature in milwaukee. So this is the photograph of the lynching that occurred im august 7th, 1930, near indiana. James cameron was 16 at the time, was supposed to be the third person hanging from the tree. But he miraculously survived the lynching. His two friends abe and tommy, it was like 18 and 19 years old, they were killed that day. By mob. Between ten and 50000 angry white people. This was actually in North Central indiana. Join lynching took place. So you end up writing the book they called the time of the survivor story memoir of the memories of the surviving lynching. Actually started his life that when he was in jail. I was a mistrial that he was finally convicted and sentenced.
About the violence against women act. And i speak to this body not just as a senator, but i speak to this body as a survivor of rape. And as the survivor of Domestic Violence. For months for months, the senior senator from california and i worked together on a piece of legislation that would reauthorize the violence against women act, a bipartisan effort, an effort that brought the senator and i together in an effort to reauthorize the bill with as much support in this body as possible. Now, we were working together in good faith. To make our way through the issues that affect so many women in abusive situations, partners in abusive situations, Domestic Violence situations where children are involved to find a common path forward to have this bill reauthorized, again with as much possible support in this body, at a time when america views us as so politically divided. What could bring us together . The issue of violence. Directed at women and children and survivors of Sexual Assault. T
So, we are glad that you are here. We are excited to be talking about the memorial. Lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the cheyennearapaho tribes of oklahoma. He is a cheyenne peace chief. He has been a career Law Enforcement official. He is a working artist. And he is a marine and vietnam veteran. Please greet harvey pratt. [applause] so, harvey, what caused you to submit a proposed design for the memorial . Mr. Pratt well, our veterans director just kept after me. I have no, really had no hope i would even come close or submit a design, but he just kept after me. He said, do it for the tribe, harvey. Come on, submit something. I thought about it. I said, let me dream on it. I have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done early in the morning during that dream period. So thats what i did. I went home and dreamed about it. I got up and got my big tablet out and i made some sketches. It just came to me all of a sudden that morning and in order to t
Comin going up in the past year, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you saw your Health Care Costs going down, please call us at 202 7488001. If your health care stayed the same, but you have an opinion on this topic anyway, we want to hear from you at 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us at 202 7488003. We are always reading on social media, on twitter, and on facebook. Basic Background Information out of the way. Cnbc had a great article earlier this month on the Health Care Costs in the u. S. And how they are increasing. Let me read a little bit of background from that article. It says, the average American Household spent almost 5,000 per person on health care last year. 1 increase from the roughly 2500 per person that americans spent 34 years ago in 1984 according to an analysis of the bureau of labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure survey. Comparisons,ate clever adjusted all dollar amounts for inflation. It is not surprising that Health Care Costs have risen