You get tons of new experience and on top of that you get to make new connections and really build your resume. I knew the work i was doing was exactly the same work that i had previously done, except that now i was doing it for free. Its not right, and you can do something about it if you want to. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight neither side gave ground in washingtons war over preventing a Government Shutdown next wee
Its not right, and you can do something about it if you want to. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight neither side gave ground in washingtons war over preventing a Government Shutdown next week. The senate worked on a bill to Fund Government operations, while republicans in the house kept demanding an end to funding for president obamas Health Care Reform law. Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our cov
Experience and on top of that you get to make new connections and really build your resume. I knew the work i was doing was exactly the same work that i had previously done, except that now i was doing it for free. Its not right, and you can do something about it if you want to. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight neither side gave ground in washingtons war over preventing a Government Shutdown next week. The senate worked
Well, the United States, we have 350 Million People here. We have such a diverse we do not have a homogenous society, which is much more typical in many other countries around the world. I did want to make a point about life expect answery, and the w. H. O. Often says the United States ranked 37th out of 190 countries. As professor steven wolf in the institute of medicine study, which was really based on Life Expectancy, he said Life Expectancy and other noted Health Outcomes are determined by much more than health care. Here in america, when you look at our lifestyle choices, we have a huge obesity problem. We have homicides and car accident deaths at a much higher per capita rate than any other country in the world. When you look at the numbers for fiveyear survival rates for cancer, the United States ranks number one in the world on 13 of the 16 most popular cancers. You have to compare apples to apples. Thank you very much. My time is expired, mr. Chairman. Let me say before i ask
The issue of wait times, when it comes to emergent care, canadians are not waiting substantially longer than our peers in other countries including the United States. Unfortunately, it was true that has not been the case for medical care such as nondiagnostic imaging. A great deal of work was underway to address this challenge. And indeed, waits have been decreasing over the last decade. It is important to note that moving away from a single payer model would likely exacerbate our wait time challenge rather than alleviate it by drawing Critical Health Human Resources out of the public system. This is bourn out by International Evidence from other jurisdictions such as australia. The canadian system is proof that Public Health Care Insurance need not be provided federally in order to achieve the benefits of the single payer model. In canada, each province provides Public Health Care Insurance to its residents with minimum standards set at the federal level. Furthermore, moving to single