From hundreds are forced from their homes tonight. Thousands of democrats turn out in a republican strong hold today, showing support for president ial candidate Bernie Sanders. Plus, a federal crackdown on tenants making too much money and taking advantage of Public Housing. We begin in france, where three americans are being celebrated for their bravery. Two u. S. Servicemen and a friend helped overpower a gunman on a train in france yesterday, and today they got congratulatory phone calls from president obama. The president called Airmen First Class Spencer Stone, who is from sacramento, california. Stone was stabbed when he confronted this gunman. He was released from the hospital today. His friends, National Guardsman alex scarlotosis and College Student were also on the phone call. A british consultant explained how the events unfolded. He put up quite a bit of a fight, but Spencer Stone is a very strong guy. He actually held him very well, and alexander and anthony had a pretty
Host hello. Its a pleasure to be here today to talk about your new book the health gap. Youve written extensively around the social determinants of health for a long time, and i wanted to start by reading a quick quote from the end of the book but i think it gets us off to a good place. The different power, material, health and creates health and equity. They take different forms of local monopoly and high income country but the general approach to promoting the just distribution of health is similar. Its similarly about health. Can you tell us a little bit about what this means and why you decided to write this book now . Guest when you run the two words health and care together. I spend little time talking about health care in the book because what i say it is when people get sick they need access to highquality health care but its not a lack of healthcare that caused the illness in the first place. Its the lack of access and insults to the injury of getting sick. So i very much push
Similar. Your book is about health. Its not specifically about health care. And its about equity. Can you tell us a little bit about what this means and why you decided to write this book now . Guest they run the two words health and care together. I spend very little time talking about health care in the book because what i say it is when people get sick they need access to highquality health care. But its not a lack of healthcare that caused the illness in the first place. A lack of access adds insult to the injury of getting sick in those places. So, im very much pushing the idea that although healthcare is a vital issue and the worlds discovered universal healthcare coverage which is great, and the u. S. Is trying to do something about serving the under terms in terms of access to healthcare, i am talking about the way we organize our affairs in society which impact on health and the unFair Distribution judged by reasonable means to be avoidable. The reason i read the book now is i
Heart throb and an actor he was. And according to his sister margaret who wrote this book, the entertainer. Quite a guy, and it was quite a family, and his brother, steve, is also a real interesting guy who is a fantastic documentarist, video maker, was well known for doing the frontline series and also to the baby boomers he was known as gilbert. Gilbert on leave it to beaver, yeah. Yes. We were a sitcom family. [laughter] so david is a journalist, he worked during the heyday for craw daddy concern. Wow, thats yeah . Deep digging. I remember who remembers crawdaddy here . The great rock and roll magazine. Rolling stone, you probably know rolling stone. And as editor at mother jones which is still going, doing really well. And i interviewed david for this book, the devils chessboard, and was at the examiner. And then he was one of the first people to sort of say, oh, my god, the internet exists. Maybe we can do journalism on it, and he started salon. Com. Which is still going and is st
Why Young Americans are turned off to politics. [silence] welcome to the Westminster Town Hall 5 years we have engaged in public reflection an dialogue on key issue was our day from a ethical perspective all forums are free to the public and information on Upcoming Events have been found online at westminster. Org and westminster thf or like us at facebook an town hall forum. My name is tim anderson minister at the church located in beautiful Downtown Minneapolis and moderator of the forum its my pleasure today to introduce speaker jennifer lawless a professor of governor in washington, d. C. , and the director of the women and politics institute. She describes herself this way, im a 40yearold political junkie. Election day is my super bowl. [laughter] the sunday morning talk shows are my favorite reality tv, and my computer Search History shows that political wire. Com is my most visited website. This selfabout political junkie graduated from Union College in new york with a b. A. In