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i'm bill whitaker. welcome to "60 minutes presents." tonight, a look at americans from all walks of life "making anteers helping sick children's dreams come true; health workers bringing care toural poverty; billionaires who share their wealth. we begin with make-a-wish.hing, go anywhere, or meet anyone, what would you wish for? the make-a-wish foundation has children that question for 35- years. make-a-wish became famous bys final wishes come true. a child doesn't have to be terminally ill anymore to get a wish.ization granted almost 15,000 wishes. they cover a broad range-- some famous athletes; one had much of san francisco pretend he was batman

airplane. we wanted to find out what leads to these wondrous moments. organization that spent more than 200 million donated dollars on wishes in 2014.phoenix, has more than 60 local chapters across the country, and almost 40 more around the world.come reality, we spent time with some of its most dedicated volunteers in one of its most activetheast corner of arkansas. as we reported back in october, we discovered a place where,overty, we found inspiring generosity. >> you're fine.ch. >> whitaker: they begin at dawn. one day a year, hundreds of volunteers fan out acrosso raise money-- at street corners... >> good morning.

>> whitaker: ...in schools. >> $taker: their goal? >> thank you so much. >> whitaker: to get enough money on this one day to grant every children. volunteers christie matthews and danna johnson have run thise 1999. >> christie matthews: i mean, it literally just exploded. every year, we would add another town.s is small town america. >> matthews: they're very small towns-- 600, 700 people. a handful of change at a time.this day's donation deadline approaches, groups of volunteers race to the local radio station to announceto the penny. >> give me a number. >> $8,468.62!use ) >> $25,301! ( cheers and applause ) >> $12,054.55!lause ) >> golly! >> the big finish is just

stand by! >> whitaker: the total tallysas is the big story on the 7:00 news. >> what do we have here? $323,000!) >> whitaker: that's $323,000-- enough to grant more than 30places with little to spare. in harrisburg, 40% live in2,000 still contributed $25,000.g just to children who were dying. and that's no longer the case? >> matthews: we talk about ith, but we create lasting wishes and memories that these families can take on forever. hi, kaden!rickson is fighting a deadly type of leukemia. at his interview as a potentialwish was a long shot.

australia.ere make granting the wish a big surprise. months after his interview,ng this plaque just for being a make-a-wish volunteer. >> erickson: "make-a-wish, october 11, 2014. wish has..." ( applause )granted!" >> hey, kaden, you're going to australia. ) whitaker: his mother jeanne. >> jeanne erickson: he was just shaking the plaque. and his little legs were just doing a little happy dance in the chair.it was something pretty special. >> whitaker: you must have been surprised?

my life. >> kendra street: i'm so excited for you, you know it? >> whitaker: kendra streetrprise. when not playing fairy godmother, she's teaching at marmaduke elementary school.ol chipped in to pay for kaden's wish; many turned out to share the revelation.o go to australia! i get to go to australia! >> street: he was excited. he was grateful.at it meant for him and his family. >> kaden erickson: thank you, everybody.ured two excruciating bone marrow transplants. when he, his parents, and fourch in australia, they hoped he'd beaten the cancer. the highlight of his trip? >> kaden erickson: got to hold a koala. like, put his arms around you? >> kaden erickson: he... it was like a hug. it was about as heavy as a baby. claws here

was like you were getting hugged by a koala. you kind of ge >> whitaker: did it make you forget for a while that you were sick? >> kaden erickson: yes.a little bit normal, more normal than i've been for a while. normal didn't last long. shortly after returning home, kaden learned his cancer had time. as we settled in for our interview, his mom jeanne adjusted the medication he needs. body next to his heart. you're in quite a struggle with this disease. some bad things in my body thatborn. >> whitaker: i think you're kind

i think.aden is so stubborn that, after deliberating for a week, he decided to undergo a third agonizing bone marrow transplant.wo were so difficult, his parents didn't want to force him to go through it again. how did you make that decision?ould i rather just die or would i have a chance of living? tough decision to make. >> whitaker: because the therapy makes you feel bad?make me feel bad. it can hurt me. it could do more harm than help,ust hoping this time it will get rid of it for good. >> whitaker: kaden's wish- granter, kendra street, waslearned his cancer had come back.

attachment with your kids, andreally attached to. and i've gotten to keep in touch with him, and so, seeing him have to go through that again,inful. he's just a really amazing kid. >> let's givse. ( cheers and applause ) >> whitaker: you see, kendra had cancer. back when she was in high school, she had her wish granted. >> make-a-wish foundation is braves. ( applause ) >> whitaker: getting to meet theng, she says, but... >> street: not to underestimateut if i had to sacrifice having my wish to be able to give it to someone else, i would definitely be willing to give it to someone else.nter of the wish is the better end of the deal. >> street: absolutely. you get to give that joy.n to someone else.

passed it on to gavin grubbs.ting muscular dystrophy, and his wish was to meet race car champion joey logano. them outside charlotte, joey took gavin for a spin.ey met six years ago, and have become so close, they call or text each other every week.you see anymore? >> gavin grubbs: i can't see. >> whitaker: gavin was a groomsman at joey's wedding. gavin was eight. >> make-a-wish is sending you to the daytona 500! ( cheers and applause )hool assembly, gavin learned he'd get his wish to go to daytona and meet his hero. then, it got better.arkansas to be part of gavin's surprise. (

) a serious disease, but, as you'll see, he doesn't take himself too seriously.you are fighting a rare form of muscular dystrophy. >> grubbs: yes, sir.s it affect you? >> grubbs: main thing is i don't have the strength of a normal kid my age.a wheelchair, but it's not all sad because, i mean, you're... when you got a disability, people give you free stuff. ( laughs )ol things. i'm not saying i take advantage of it, but yeah, i take advantage of it. ( laughter )i feel a little bad for taking advantage of it, but, you know, it's worth it, ( laughs ) >> it's okay, no pressure. >> whitaker: gavin gives back, too.ey for new wish kids every year. >> grubbs: it feels good to help

>> logano: that's to me is maturity beyond your years.f the stuff that comes your way, as you should. but you also, you know, you give back. an back in 1980. seven-year-old chris greicius, dying from leukemia, told his be a police officer. arizona police made him an officer for a day. the pomovement. are there wishes you can't grant? >> matthews: the one wish that's do" is, "can you make me well?" that's a tough one. >> whitaker: what does that do to you? >> matthews: breaks your heart. >> street: thank you so much. thank you. >> whitaker: years before sheer, getting well had been kendra street's first wish. at the time, she thought her cancer was fatal. >> matthews: yes.one of those that her first wish was to "make

enough for my mom to see me graduate high school."t year. >> matthews: they remind you that the little things that we think as adults are so traumatic are so small.ou think about what these kids are going through-- they may not see their next birthday.r next birthday, and since then, 13 more. her cancer remains in remission.she teaches, the whole school takes part in make-a-wish. >> street: they just understand the power of a wish.t once they saw the first wish granted here, our kids wanted to help give that to someone else.ool that's raised... last year, we raised $15,000. that's incredible. of who our kids grow up to be. >> kaden erickson: there's a

>> whitaker: i don't want to in any way, but did the trip to australia bolster kaden's will to live?on: having australia with him, having those memories, talking about that, itfight. >> kaden erickson: sometimes when i'm sad, i can think of allid in australia, and how amazing it to let this cancer win. >> kaden erickson: thank you.ou saw how courageous kaden was, but unfortunately, this story has a very sad ending. this past september, kaden died. ut kaden's family

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>> whitaker: more than 11 million people have signed up for obamacare.have been left out. millions of americans can't afford the health insurance exchanges.e people, obamacare told the states to expand medicaid, the government insurance for the very poor.

three million people are falling into a gap-- they make too much r medicaid, but not enough to buy insurance. as scott pelley first reportedt some of these people when we tagged along in a busted rv called the y for those left out of obamacare. of the cumberland mountains mark the point of western virginia that splits kentucky andr of appalachia, a land rich in soft coal and hard times.folks are welcomed by storefronts to remember what life was like before unemployment hit 9%.a gardner: the roads are narrow and windy curves, so it's not easy to drive the bus. >> pelley: this is teresa

but she muscles the bus through the hollers, deaf to thea 13-year-old winnebago that's left its best miles behind it. >> gardner: having problems seeing here. >> pelley: you really can't see.y shot and the defroster's out cold. there you go, you can see a little better now. ( laughs )here's a hole in the floorboard here somewhere? >> gardner: yes, it's right over there, so don't get in that area. ( laughs )ay be a ruin, but like most rvs, it's pretty good at discovering america. la meade, are nurse practitioners aboard the health wagon, a charity that puts free healthcare on the road.tients do we have on the schedule today? >> he was going to see what he can free up for us. six counties in southwestern virginia. >> y'all come on in out of the rain. >> pelley: it's not long before the waiting room is packed...how are you doing?

are full. with advanced degrees inde are allowed to diagnose illnesses, write prescriptions, order tests and x-rays."ah." >> pelley: on average, there are 20 patients a day-- that's recently up by 70%.a small operation that started back in 1980. it runs mostly on federal grants, and corporate and private donations.ure a bit high before? >> just when i get aggravated. >> pelley: who are these people who come into the van?eople that are in desperate need. they have no insurance, and they usually wait, we say, "until they are train wrecks."essures come in emergency levels. we have blood sugars come in 500, 600s because they can't afford their insulin.o they not see a doctor or a nurse before they become, as you call it, "train wrecks"? >> meade: because they don't have any money.y to pay for labs.

an e.r. and these are very proud people. they... you know, you go to the l. and then what do you do? you're given a prescription, you can't fill it. that's why they're train wrecks. they have nowhere else to go.nda moore had nowhere to go but the e.r. when the pain in her leg became unbearable. her job at mcdonald's making biscuits didn't includeould afford. >> glenda moore: the only doctor that would see me, you had to be seen. >> pelley: what does $114 mean to your monthly budget? >> moore: oh, my gosh.ekly pay. i make $7.80 an hour. my paycheck was about... afterery two weeks. >> pelley: the pain was from a blood clot. she needed lovenox, a clotout $500 for a full treatment. >> meade: was she on lovenox when she was discharged from the hospital? he

want to bear the cost. the health wagon had the drugno charge for some stern medical advice. >> meade: you are going to die if you don't quit smoking, and it could be within a week. >> pelley: she took the advice to stop smoking and took elt so bad, she went back to the e.r. >> moore: and they did a ct scane blood clot had went to my lung. but they also saw another mass transported me to a bigger hospital. they found the lesions in my brain, so i was diagnosed withand brain cancer. >> pelley: what are the doctors telling you? and he seemed very... i mean, he seemed optimistic. >> moore: i am. i have been.

hopeful.e, especially when the odds are long, has always been essential to survival in appalachia. the recovery from the greatived. in coal these days, they just take the top of the mountain and you don't need many men for that.,000 were laid off in the last two years. 12% of the folks don't have enough to eat.ing for their number at zion family ministries church, where a charity called feeding america enough to get through a week, if you stretch. 1,654 lined up, a parking lot offor gardner, meade, and the health wagon. they've known these people andives. you've been together since eighth grade? >> meade: eighth grade, yes. >> pelley: why do you do this work? dy has to. you know, there's people here,

we wanted to move away from here. we all... you know, we did. we saw the need. and actually, there's a vulnerable population here that's different from the rest of america. . you can replicate this, but we're kind of forgotten. there's no one here to take care of them but us. >> pelley: these patients wouldthe 30 states that expanded medicaid under obamacare. the federal government pays the three years. but virginia and the others that opted out fear that the cost inkrupt them. so the health wagon patients we met have fallen through this unintended gap. >> no, ma'am. >> pelley: have any of you tried to sign up for the president's health insurance plan? >> no... afford it. >> sissy cantrell: i can't, either. laid off from a head start center. she's been suffering fromes.

at all, okay. >> have you been seeing a counselor? >> cantrell: no. >> okay.away from the health wagon with medication. brittany phipps works more than 50 hours a week, but that's two, so there's no insurance for her diabetes. so you're getting your insulin through the health wagon? >> phipps: i am now, yeah.at wasn't available, where would you get the insulin? >> phipps: i don't know. >> pelley: walter laney's in one eye and threatens the other. the health wagon stabilized him and set him up with a specialist. >> hey, walter, this is dr. isaacs. how's it going?s going pretty good. >> how have you're sugars been? >> laney: okay. they got my blood sugars back under control. before this year, i was in the times, and this year, i ain't been in none since i've been seeing them. if it hadn't a been for them, i don't think i'd be here today.he church where they were handing out food, we met dr. joe smiddy, a

director. >> joe smiddy: this is a third- world country of diabetes, hypertension, lung cancer, and c.o.p.d. smiddy drives a second health wagon, a tractor- trailer x-ray lab. i guess they taught youand all of that in medical school. did they teach you how to drive an 18-wheeler? >> smiddy: i did have to go to tractor-trailer school.e. >> pelley: was that harder than medical school, in some ways? >> smiddy: it was very difficult to get anyone to insure a doctor insurance companies didn't believe me. >> pelley: his x-ray screen is aed disease, including black lung from the mines. >> smiddy: we've seen coal workers pneumoconiosis, enlarged hearts. there's 15 of the 26 had significant abnormalities here today. >> pelley: just today? >> smiddy: just today.they leave your health wagon, they still don't have health insurance. how do they get treated for these things that you're

we can talk to the hospital system. we don't leave any patient unattended. for them. >> pelley: you find a way. >> smiddy: we will find a way. >> pelley: they found a way totion for her brain cancer. but she'd been a smoker for 25 years, and she died three months after our interview. this idea of receiving charity? >> moore: no. oh, i hate it. my dad was in the military.nosed with cancer, he was taken care of. and i don't know, i just always assumed, you know, that's how it would work.k things would've been different if you'd had an opportunity to go to a doctor more often? >> moore: oh, definitely. i know it would be different. outreach to all the people like glenda moore costs the health wagon about a million and a half dollars a year-- a third of that is from, and the

doctors volunteer and pharmaceutical companies donate drugs.re with them... >> we got no electricity on the health side. >> pelley: ...they sure could have used a new truck battery. >> there goes. yay!er: can we give you all a free flu shot for helping us? >> need a free flu shot, beaver? >> nope. >> okay.rdner and paula meade apply for grants, and travel to churches prayingssing the plate. are there days you say to yourself, "i can't do this anymore."day. not every day, i shouldn't say every day. there are a lot of days that youated because we're writing grants till 10:00 at night. we're begging for money. and you're almost in tears, what are we going to do?" because i've got a family, too. it gets frustrating, it gets hard. >> pelley: it's enough to wear you out, teresa. t

but we do get more out of it than we ever give. it practically, you think, "what in the world am i thinking?" but then i have that one patient say, "couldn't bring you anything, can't pay anything, but here's a quilt i want to give you." and i mean, when they do that and they're so heartfelt andaround you-- "i don't know what i'd do without you." you're doing a lot better. it lets you think, "okay, i was put here for a purpose." >> gardner: and you can do it another day. to us. >> well, thank you all. y'all are blessing us. >> gardner: it's them, and that's what touches our heart.ince this story first aired, meade and gardner have a new health wagon and it's logged a lot of miles. ded medicaid. and this sad news-- walter laney has died of complications from

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ay, the wealthiest 400 americans are worth over $2 trillion.reported they own as much wealth as the bottom half of american households combined.he super-rich grows, there may be a silver lining taking shape. it turns out a lot of those richaggering sums of money away in what is being called a golden age of philanthropy.sity is not by accident.

ambitious and targeted campaignledge." it was started by an influential trio-- bill and melinda gates, and warren buffett.ie rose had the opportunity to get them together to learn more about their new club for billionaires.es with just two requirements-- be worth at least a billion dollars and be willing >> rose: is it necessary to join the giving pledge that you promise 50% of your net worth? in your lifetime or in your will. >> rose: or in your will. >> warren buffett: right. >> rose: are people shocked by that? >> buffett: i don't think so. ng them to be bold. we're asking them to step out and to do something big. but a lot of them were already on their way there and justr behind it. and i think now, also, the giving pledge has gotten going, people know that's the expectation. >> buffett: and we don't... weople that say, "i want to join if it was 40%." ( laughter ) >> rose: some may say, "i'm

most. my guess is that a very significant percentage of our... our members, i mean, way overve a lot more than half. >> rose: that's certainly true of the founders. the gates have already committedlth away; warren buffett, 99%. they say that kind of extremeause the rich have been getting so much richer. tech innovations and risingoduced vast fortunes not seen since the industrial revolution. so what does warren buffett saybillionaires to give their fortunes away? >> buffett: incremental wealth, adding to the wealth they havety to them. but that wealth has incredible utility to other people. it can eccinate children. it can do all kinds of things. >> rose: there are others, and want

that's what i want to do." what's wrong with that? >> buffett: i don't really thinkwe want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simplythe far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth. >> rose: so far, 115 billionaires have boughtnd signed the giving pledge. ages range from 27 to 98. most are self-made. their businesses range from technology and social media to improvement. combined pledges so far? over a half a trillion dollars. i mean, can they say, "yes, i'm with you. i'm here. but i want to give it to this institution or that institution."on't care what institution they give it to. >> bill gates: yeah, in fact, we're not endorsing any flavor of philanthropy. we do think we're all going to better

but there is no pooling of money. we celebrate the diversity of philanthropy.res can be shy when it comes to talking about their money. but warren buffett helped convince seven who have signedh "60 minutes." they are investors pete peterson african mining tycoon patrice motsepe and his wife, dr. precious moloi-motsepe, nd a.o.l. founder steve case, and his wife jean. when did you first hear of the giving pledge? >> jean case: melinda called and talked to us. benefit of knowing bill and melinda for a long time, going back to our technology roots. >> steve case: we competed against them for many years. >> jean case: we did. >> steve case: and we're happy to finally join forces.on their side. >> steve case: yeah, yeah, we wanted to be on the... aligned. >> rose: they've all signed theg the same brashness to their philanthropic ambition that helped them build financial empires. this

entrepreneurs. and they didn't make a billionn by doing the ordinary; they did it by being bold. >> rose: that's certainly true for sara blakely.y: well, i made all the money by making other people's butts look a lot better. >> rose: i think you've missed me.,000 in savings and started the undergarment company spanx. now, she wants her philanthropye as her billion-dollar business. >> blakely: i started my business with an invented product that didn't exist and shook up an industry.collaborate with people and increase my chances of coming up with an idea ort for my cause, which is helping women. >> rose: at 42, blakely admits she's just beginning to figure out how she'll help women.buffett says he wants to stick with what he's

berkshire hathaway-- so he'ss fortune to the bill and melinda gates foundation so it can be used to reduce global poverty and disease.dgers, they're tackling an impressive array of causes-- unemployment in south africa, early detectionin cancer-- and some interests that take on a more political tone: tax reform in california and the national debt.l gates discovered when he left microsoft, going from making money to giving it away isn't always easy.the lessons he's learned-- it doesn't matter how effective aackage and deliver it the right way, it will not do any good. i guess there's a learning process, too. >> melinda gates: absolutely.like, "how do you do this even if you're inclined to do it?" >> bill gates: it's almost disconcerting to switch to anck at square zero a little bit. and the measurements aren't

business game.ying to do-- the need to take risk, try different things, and so you need encouragement.buffett and the gates invite pledgers once a year to exclusive resorts like kiawah island in south carolina.ttend seminars on how to give money away more effectively. our cameras were not allowed in, but we were shown this day's lessons on how tools like technology can be used to transform failingrnment cutting funding on medical research, how can philanthropists step in and helpughs. but we wondered, what else goes on behind closed doors?ersation here about failure? >> buffett: sure. >> jean case: yes, there most definitely will be. >> rose: what does that... how do you phrase that?at a thousand, you're playing in the little leagues. i mean, the... and the problems

the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service--t, you shift. you... the market reacts to your initial idea. you make some adjustments. it's only after making a fewhe success. we need that same mentality in philanthropy-- trying things, taking risks, recognizing the second try, maybe the third try won't work. but if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually, you'll nd of impact you were hoping for. >> rose: jeffrey skoll, one of the first to sign the givingons he made as ebay's first president to fight what he calls global threats-- not just one, but fiveced pose immediate danger to humanity: climate change, water security, pandemics, nuclear and the middle east conflict. i mean, is there some argument to make sometimes that... that because people made a lot ofme to

arrogance, like, "i know everything there is to know. i'm so... smart guy. let me tell you what to do."think we all have a danger... >> rose: arrogance... >> skoll: ...of feeling like we know the answers.e don't. >> rose: but that doesn't keep skoll from trying. in addition to his more traditional charitable giving,the for- profit media company participant, to make movies that promote his philanthropic goals. movies is what? awareness is one. >> skoll: to create entertainment that inspires and compels social change.is climate change or dolphin hunting in japan or dealing with drugilm we do has a purpose and it has a social action campaign associated with the movie.get people involved in the issues of the

difference in those issues.ith all of this may be that it shows how quickly charity can cross over into advocacy."contagion." skoll took what he'd learned through his charitable work inie to warn people that a virus could kill billions. >> on day one, there were two then 16. in three months, it's a billion. that's where we're headed.movie accomplish for you? >> skoll: in many ways, it put pandemics back on the map, that the public realized how health organizations are, for example. a number of politicians that had seen the movie who were ready too funding to the cdc recognized that that would be a bad idea. >> randall lane: the public hashe world. >> rose: randall lane, the editor of the business magazine "forbes," says billionaires like skoll have become soe devoted an

>> lane: government has shown, you know, over the past coupleno longer solve the great problems of the day. now, these philanthropists whoe problem-solving brainpower, and also the name and the influence e uniquely qualified right now to solve the huge problems. >> rose: but that does raise theillionaires have too much power? there's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a goodw, you have enormous power and you're not elected, and that that may ave people with enormous wealth to have so much influence. >> buffett: well, would theyth, pass it on? or would they prefer, you know, obscenely high living? there's a couple other ways to get rid of money, but i... i you're helping other people, using a good bit of it for helping other people.

instance in which somebody could oo many people of huge wealth who are having too much influence." >> jean case: well, charlie, think about bill and polio, for s work in polio. i mean, they're coming close to eradicating polio on the face of the earth. a couple of examples like that, people will see, that's not power being used for personal purposes; that'sng you have to change the world to make it better. >> rose: but as warren buffett is finding out, not every way. >> buffett: i've gotten a lot of yeses when i've called people, but i've gotten a lot of nos, too.people with a billion dollars or more, i've been tempted to think that if they can't sign up for 50%, maybe i should write a book on how to get by on $500 million... ( laughter )ently, there's a lot of people that don't really know how to do it. >> whitaker: since our story first aired, another 26taling 141 people from 15 different

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