for teresa her health insurance coverage only took her so far. while being cancer free for four years, she constantly worries that her cancer will come back and with it the huge financial strain that it would bring. all these wants it is health care she can count on. these are people who have done everything right. played by the the rules, looked out for their fellow employees an fellow citizens. our health care system is failing them. people shouldn't have to wait until they get sick to learn their health insurance won't kofort cost of their treatment. -- cover the cost of their treatment. families shouldn't have to watch their loved ones go through sicknessicknesssickness and deae anxiety of medical bills that are becoming increasingly unaffordable. we know that health care reform would not be easy. as the president said, if it were easy, we would have done it a long time ago. for these coloradans, their families, and their businesses, the system must change. for the nation's long-term prosperity, the system must change. we cannot burden future

the history of the world teresa collection of 600 short stories, he talks with colombia university professor john dingus. also sunday, books on the economy, former investment banker john talbot opposes a myth about the recession and what it will take to recover. and j. richards on why he thinks capitalism is the best way to ease poverty and protect the environment. also this weekend, the end of overeating, david kessler explains how americans programmed by too much sugar, salt and junk can control their eating habits. there is a lot more books and authors this weekend on book tv. our web site has the entire schedule and great new features including streaming video, archives that are easy to search and simple ways to share your favorite programs. booktv.org. >> outside magazine correspondent steven rinella recounts the history of the american buffalo, from its centrality to the lives of native americans to the sizable reduction of its population from forty million to a few hundred by the late nineteenth century and its usage as a symbol of america. this event, hosted by tidal wave books in an

next we'll hear from teresa on behalf of the mortgage income companies from america. miss bryce? >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member garrett, members of the subcommittee. i appreciate the opportunity today to testify on behalf of the mortgage insurance companies of america, the trade group representing the private mortgage insurance industry. mortgage insurance enables foreigners to responsibly buy homes with less than a 20% down payment. many of these are first-time and lower-income borrowers. since 1957, mortgage insurance has helped over 25 million families purchase homes. today about 10% of all outstanding mortgage loans have private mortgage insurance. this morning i would like to make three points. first, we do not cause or contribute to systemic risk. to the contrary, we absorb risk. if a borrower defaults, mortgage insurance pays the lender or investor 20% to 25% of the loan amount plus expenses. the insurance payment plus the proceeds from the sale of the house makes up much of the lender's or investor's loss. in the current crisis since 2007, we have paid over $1

second out his celebrity status rocks are the likes of which i can't think of an example, mother teresa, who is a longer with us, perhaps. you knew him as you described, before, when he was a simple buddhist monk for the most part. and i know that if i became that famous it would go to my head probably. and i would be incorrigible to some extent. and it would change me. do you think that celebrity has changed the dalai lama? >> no because he has an advantage neither of us had that he is born as a god. if anything he began as a god and now he is immortal and he began surrounded by 6 million people who wouldn't even look at him and now he's surrounded by thousands who see him as one of tracie and, many different things. so in some way i had a long series of conversations in 1996 just before seven years into that during the movie's about his life and he did say you know, he said with bewilderment some people think of me as a celebrity. he could barely get his mind are rounded -- around it. he stressed in flip-flops' and will tie his leases and will prevent as if he is in an natural museum