Awaiting the start of this forum on Health Care Costs to get underway. It will start in just a moment live here on cspan2. We told you about many so of the programing on cspan2 today. Over on cspan Hillary Clinton and former Vice President al gore will be appearing at a Campaign Rally in miami. Live coverage of that getting underway at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Then tonight we have live hourlong interviews separately with third Party President ial candidates. You will hear from libertarian gary johnson. He starts at 8 00 p. M. The green partys jill stein. She is after that at 9 00. Well take your phone calls and tweets to the candidates. 10 second warning. On behalf of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University i want to welcome you to this important discussion about the effect much rising Health Care Costs on economic mobility and economic wellbeing. My name is bill beach. Im the Vice President of policy research at mercatus on behalf of the scholars and the staff welcome to this great
At risk, including gay men, blacks, latinos and other at high risk of infection. We will continue to support americas Ground Breaking programming. That was a platform in 2012. How should we expand on this . That is a good place to start. Somenk there are from of the mental things to address. We can virtually, nearly eliminate transmission, treatment as prevention. We need to make sure we had treatment on demand. Any person living with hiv should have access to lifesaving treatment. Not only for their own health, but also because of the dramatic reduction in transmission. We can enter up acquisition of the virus. Anyone at risk of hiv should have access to treatment that would prevent acquiring hiv. Number three, we need to address the issue around stigma. For example, if you are trance trans woman and your state discovered it against you, you, we have to deal with the stigma issue. Number four, when he to continue to be a leader we need to continue to be a leader in the research front.
The city has seen a number of Police Chiefs come and go. Mayor libby schaaf we know is upset about what has been happening all along but she has her share of critics and some going to say you got to go. What are we hearing from the mayor . The mayor is saying that technically she and the protestors are on the same side, that she understands the frustration and trying to get to the bottom of it. First thing trying to get an outsider to leave and investigate the scandals. Involving the racist texts and the sex scandal, what is the latest on all of that combined . Coming up at five i will have a story on the homicide sergeant allegedly allowing a mistress to get involved in confidential documents. And the officers involved in the scandal, what does that mean to the cases that she have investigated. What is the impact to those cases . I spoke to the public defender brandon woods, he says they will look to the background and any officers in the scandal. May need potentially convictions coul
Are defined principally because their illness is of the brain as opposed to other parts of the bodies i want to get that message out there but i know that another policy but as you point out is either a going to sit on the shelf if anyone is lucky enough to have it sold. I wanted to be a compelling narrative and there has to be certain appeal for everyone to dig through the book and read the whole book so i didnt want it just to be a policy book. I knew that the real story is the one even i didnt want to tell which is even though i was the champion of mental parody, i was also a consumer of Mental Health services that i didnt want anyone to know about because i was worried that it would ruin my credibility as the champion of Mental Health. So come even while im trying to get Mental Health coverage and intense but either way we had in the federal Employee Health benefits plan, i was trying to keep quiet the fact that i had to give into these go into the settings for my own treatment of
I would like to invite you up to meet rita and we do have copies of the book available for purchase as well. Thank you very much. [inaudible] interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan three. Every weekend, 48 hours of people and events that help document the american story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. And now on afterwards, former congressman Patrick Kennedy. He discussed living with Mental Illness and addiction. He is interviewed by congressman Jim Mcdermott of washington state. Good morning, good afternoon. Im. Im Jim Mcdermott and im here interviewing Patrick Kennedy. Patrick has written a book what you see on the screen, i have to tell you patrick i have a whole shelf of books written by politicians, yours is the only one i have read front to back. So i read it and i thought to myself, he could have written a history of Mental Health parity question or he could have written his own memoir. He put them them both in the same book,