Ladies and gentleman, thank you for com ladies and gentlemen thank you for coming out on another rainy day in kentucky. Let me take a moment. Thank you for coming out at this historic moment at the Mcconnell Center there is a number of distinguished guests in the audience tonight if you think i would call you distinguish then that is the case. But i do owe and introduction to the president of the university of louisville thank you for bringing her today. This is a storied moment in our history and the statesman one of the most important of all time because it seems to me we have duties one is to remember to learn from our past and the rising generation with the book we launch to the world and we have High School Students all over kentucky just spending the last week at the Mcconnell Center studying the constitution. So whatever else to study the foundation of the american constitutional order. And then to help us remember history to get those lessons onto the next generation. An attorn
Information. Here is Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen thank you forfo coming out on yet another rainy day in kentucky. Let me take a moment to ask you to check your cell phone and make sure it is turned off. Thank you for coming out today to another historic moment and history here at the university ofy louisville. There is a number of distinguished guest in thehe audience if you feel that i would think that you are distinguished then that is the case. Ou[laughter] but i do owe an introduction and the appreciation to the president of louisville. [applause] thank you for bringing her today out in the rain. This is the historic moment for the Mcconnell Center i was thinking of the roman statesman of all time in his book it seems that if we live in a free society we have duties it seems to me is to remember to learn from our past from the rising generation the two authors today have done that and then these over the last week at the Mcconnell Center
Die of Heart Disease and 574,000 byte of cancer died of cancer. What isnt known and what the function of put the function of the hearing is about and i hope to do my best with the help of fellow senators and members of the panel is to start focusing attention on the third leading cause of death in the United States of america. And that will come as a great surprise to most people and the third leading cause of death in this country has to do with preventable medical errors in hospitals. A recent article published in the journal of Patient Safety estimates that as many as 440,000 people a year may die from preventable medical errors in hospitals. 440,000. That is more than a thousand eight each day. They die from preventable mistakes outside of the hospitals such as misdiagnosis or injury and medication. Nearly 15 years ago the institute of medicine published a report. It is a well publicized report entitled to air is human which found that as many as 98,000 people die in hospitals each