joining me now are three people who know how important the decision is. spike dolomite ward. stacie ritter, a mother of two girls who were diagnosed with childhood leukemia. she no longer has to worry they ll be denied coverage because of that preexisting condition. and louisa mcqueeny, the general manager of a small business who supports the affordable care act. thank you all for joining me today. thank you. thank you. thanks for having us. spike, let me start with you. you said in an article in december of last year that this health care law literally saved your life. how are you doing today? well, i m at the end of a very long treatment program for stage three breast cancer. i underwent five months of intensive chemotherapy and then nine days ago iรง received a
and when i first heard about this, i called someone in tallahassee. for most cancers in adults we think the latency period is between 10 to 50 years. for children, their cancers can develop with much shorter late ensays. so we think childhood leukemia often comes about from exposures that take place in the womb. that s why people at camp lejeune have a right to know they were exposed, and therefore they should be vigilant about these things. and six months i ve looked at ten families, including myself, in tallahassee that all lived at la june and are all sick. one family, the father died of male breast cancer. there s another gentleman, he was diagnosed with male breast cancer. and me. what are the odds of that? i wonder when we start to look out in the country how many other cancers we re going to find. my house is where plants came to die. but, it turns out
little bit. and i m going to hit on something a little bit touchy in our world. remember when chef paula deen announced she had diabetes. a lot of people voicing their opinion, i told you so. that s what you get for cooking such incredibly rich food. we wish paula deen the best. we love her. i want to take another approach. sam talbot, a finalist on the show top chef, has had diabetes for most of his life. it s taught him important lessons about eating healthy. we re going to try to share them with you today. first, like a lot of people, i was pretty shocked to get the news about whitney houston dying just before the grammys. the coroner says it s going to be weeks before we know the cause of death. but given her drug abuse, people are asking tough questions. investigators did find prescription drugs in the hotel room where houston died. but the coroner told us something important. listen to this. nothing out of the ordinary was found as long as houston was taking the me
well. i m going to demonstrate in a bit. i m going to hit on something touchy in our world. paula deen announced she has diabetes. some say i told you so. it s what you get for cooking such rich food. we love her. i want to take a different approach. sam, a finalist on the show top chef has had diabetes for most of his life. he s learned about eating healthy and we are going to learn and share with you today. first, like a lot of people, i was shocked to get the news of whitney houston dying the night before the grammys. it s going to be weeks before we know the cause of death. given her drug abuse, it s going to be tough. prescription drugs were found in the hotel room she died. nothing out of the ordinary was found as long as houston was taken the medication as prescribed. as prescribed, that s a key point. i want to give you the shocking statistic, one in 20 people over the age of 12 take the medications in a way that is not prescribed. most of them are not addicts, th
the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting here as well as sporadic, heavy automatic machine gun fire has been heard and this has been the status quo in homs for over a week now. just hours ago, iran began loading what it calls its first home-built nuclear fuel rods. president mahmoud ahmadinejad helped insert the rods into a reactor at a research center in tehran. it is broadcast live. his government insists the technology is needed for medical purposes. western nations believe the iranians are focused on building a bomb. today s move i