We cant lose ground. The new treatments can be extremely expensive and cost as much as 1,000 a pill. I understand the v. A. Has been able to negotiate with the Drug Companies to a lower cost. And ive heard estimates that v. A. Is instead paying closer to 600 a bill, is that correct . I you may not have a answer. I would like to not have to answer that question. We work very slowly and collaboratively with the manufacturers of those drugs and have been able to reach attractive arrangements for the continued purchase of those drugs. And we continue to have those conversations. My what im curious about is if maybe our veterans are maybe choosing to go to v. A. As opposed to the private care or tricare or other options because they might get access to this medication more easily and the doctors might be able to get the treatment done in a more timely manner . I think that is certainly the case. If a veteran who is medicare eligible was to go to a private provider, he would wind up with a v
No lives have been lost. Nbcs Jennifer Bjorklund is live with the latest. Reporter here a few blocks from where Michael Brown was killed, chaos overnight after word there is no indictment against Police Officer Darren Wilson. Businesses torched, a police car ablaze, looting and violence met with tear gas punctuated by automatic gunfire. I know theres at least a dozen buildings that have been set on fire. Most of those are total losses. And i can tell you that i personally heard about 150 shots fired. Reporter outcry from a Community Angry over the grand jurys decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. St. Louis county prosecutor Robert Mcculla stressing the panelist of nine whites and three blacks are the only ones who have examined all the evidence. They met on 25 separate days in the last three months, heard more than 70 hours of testimony from about 60 witnesses. Reporter witnesses and evidence he says indicate brown scuffled with
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I have a generic question that touches on this. Is it possible to isolate a country in the middle east and solve its problem alone. Or are we dealing with bordercrossing issues. That had to be thought of as a reej nag issue. Every country tries to fit in. Im going to take a swing at that and then im going to dove tail to whats just been said. You could not deem with iraq alone, syria alone, israel and palestine alone. It is one region, whans in one part of the region affects the other paurt, as we have recently seen. And i think unless we have a regional strategy, were doomed to disapointment in whatever we aticht. I just want to make one point about the iraqi people. This is about political elites using religious in fear to maintain control over the iraqi people. Wech people in the United States who say iraq is not guilty a real nation, anyway. 40 of iraqis are from mixed mashages. That doesnt sound like a place thats highly sectarian to me. It is political elites in iraq that have cr
I wore nice clothes and drove nice cars. Welcome to my humble abode. But they all share one thing in common. You dont attempt to burn me oar ill [ bleep ]. Im often asked how we find the stories we cover on lockup. And the answer is footwork. It comes down to our field producers simply taking the time to get to know dozens of inmates. Whats going on, alec . Other times we just follow the action and the story unfolds in front of our eyes. But once in a while the path to a good story is a little less obvious. During our extended stay shoot in alabama, we were filming interviews in the administrative segregation unit when a loud disturbance occurred. They put me on lockup. Inmate jamie bell is in a rage because his toilet is overflowing. He blames the inmate in the cell above him of creating the problem by interfering with the plumbing. Jamie bell. Listen. Confrontation gets so heated that the warden himself gets involved. If you would shut [ bleep ] up, then nobody would be so [ bleep ]