Good afternoon, well get started while ruth is getting taped. Im elliott gurstein and delighted to see you all today. You know we dont usually start quite this promptly but were not always being taped live by cspan. Were delighted to have them here today. And this is a particularly exciting entry in our longstanding Public Health rounds sponsored by our Health Society and medicine program. The focus today is the inaugural report of the aspen Health Strategy group. The name Health Strategy group is taken from the aspen Strategy Group for those who are familiar with American Foreign policy. Probably know about the group, its undoubtedly the leading Bipartisan Group of its kind looking at Critical Issues of Foreign Policy and we established the group with that in mind, to bring together remarkable people from across different sectors in the American Health and medical landscape to look at the most pressing problems and come together with different perspectives to make recommendations for
mosquito net waiting for me to wake up so i could help them with a sick child. it was frightening because if they are depending on me for their health care we are all going to die. i certainly had no medical training at all. i had to involve myself more. it was either stay and do something or leave. my name is patty webster and i bring down medical teams into the amazon jungle. we work in so many diverse areas where the ministry of health doesn t get to. so we often take extreme measures to get out to places. many of them would never see a doctor. we work morning to night. we have so many people. this is our 17th year. we are seeing more patients, providing more services. anything i can offer them that
to wake up so i could help them with, you know, a sick child. it was frightening to me because if they re depending on me for their health care we re all going to die because i certainly had no medical training at all. i had to evolve myself more. it was either stay and do something or leave. my name is patty webster, and i bring down medical teams into the amazon jungle. we work in so many diverse areas where the ministry of health doesn t get to. so we often take extreme measures to get out to places. in some of these areas many of them would never see a doctor. we work morning to night. we have so many people. you want to make sure everybody gets treated. this is our 17th year. we are seeing more patients, providing more services. anything i can offer them that is going to help them, that s
you make me feel you make me feel like i really feel like a natural woman yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah tonight, a cnn sclus i. ed henry is hearing the white house has enlisted a big political player to push health care reform to victory. underwater for the second year in a row. we take you to a major u.s. city where people are at their witt s end. i wouldn t touch this, look at that, with a ten foot pole. the question is did he get sprayed. good evening, everyone. we tell you about a cnn exclusive. the white house s final push to a health care reform bill. ed henry joins us from washington, d.c. ed, you are hearing this first. you are in washington tonight. what are you hear something. i m at the gridiron dinner, a long washington tradition. it was interesting because bill clinton, the former president, is the headliner for this dinner and will start speaking soon. he was late to the dinner. i started inquiring with democrats outside the dinner and picked up two democ