officials. only the president and some members of his cabinet have access to them. let s bring in shawn turner, national security analyst and former director of communication for u.s. national intelligence. this reporting is quite interesting. what do you make of the idea that document like this was in a country club for 18 months? yeah, you know, when i saw this first of all, thanks for having me this morning. this really struck a chord with me, the fact that we now know that there were highly classified secret restricted access documents being stored at mar-a-lago, this is a game changer for our national security and risks to our national security. i ve been clear from the start that we need to avoid speculating about the intent with regard to these documents until we had more information about the substance of these documents. but now that we know that we re talking about nuclear defense capabilities for another country, this really raises the bar with regard to that i
Patients with congestive heart failure and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who had more quarterly primary care visits had lower rates of hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
massachusetts general hospital. thanks for coming by. thanks, christine. you say annual covid booster shoots are necessary. i m wondering maybe it will be easier to message this idea of a routine yearly vaccine because until now it has been different guidance for different groups and maybe the confusion left some people less likely to get the vaccine. what do you think? i think you re right. the fact is that we know that an annual vaccination process is feasible. we ve done it with the flu for years. people accept it, it becomes part of their annual primary care visit and it just becomes very routine for us and it moves it from something that has changing recommendations every few weeks or few months and can get confusing especially to people who are already dealing with a number of other health problems and are at higher risk. so we know that this strategy
health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what is more, we really don t benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy ranked only 29th in the world behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th and it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour and time magazine essay, we will take you around the world to study health care systems it other countries to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we will visit great britain and taiwan and switzerland to find out what they are doing right and wrong. we will show you some interesting innovation going on back here in america in one of the poorest, most crime ridden cities in the nation. but, first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care across the atlantic in great britain. is the nation s health service an evil death panel as some say
election year debate. meanwhile, our out of control health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. american spends 17%. what s more, we don t really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, we re going to take you around the world to study health care systems in other countries. to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and they re doing wrong. we ll show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america. in one of the most poorest, crime-ridden cities in the nation. but, first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health departmentcare. across t