in the decades since, our nation's development efforts have helped eradicate smallpox and reduce polio and river blindness. we have helped save millions of lives through immunizations and made oral rehydration therapy available globally, greatly reducing infant deaths. we have helped educate millions of young people. we have provided significant support to countries that have flourished in a number of sectors, including economic growth, health, and good governance -- countries like south korea, thailand, mozambique, botswana, rwanda, and gone up. -- ghana. and we have supplied humanitarian aid to countries on every confidence in the wake of hurricanes, earthquakes, famines, floods, and other disasters. americans can and do take pride in these achievements which have not only helped humanity but also helped our nation project our values and strengthen our leadership in the world. these efforts have not been the work of government alone. most people do not realize that we contribute less than 1% of our budget to foreign assistance. assistance. over the years the american people have open

i think diabetes in 30 years will be looked at like polio or smallpox. something that you read about in history books and realize it was a terrible scourge and a plague. >> big companies and big government, to some extent as well. if you had a moment with president obama and he was collecting all of these opinion on health care now, just had a couple of moments, what would you say to him? because he wants to spend less and get more. that's what he's saying. you say, mr. president, that's not possible? is that what you would tell him? >> i would say, mr. president, i think that there's no investment, no stimulus package, nothing you could do that would have a better return collectively to the country, to our companies, and to our citizens than to put more resources into finding really good sustainable solutions to our medical problems. what better place to focus more and more of our collective genius and innovative capability than on health care? why is the debate a fight to spend less time, less money, less resources in the thing that we all claim is the

health care getting out of control, they would have predicted that we just got through this massive polio academic, but technology got us to where we build these iron lungs. something might have affected the great analysis. they did not know that the vaccination would come about. today, they have this great set of predictions about the crisis and the cost of health care in 20 or 30 years. today, in the united states, 30% of all reimbursement is directly or indirectly to die due this. people are 17 times more likely to have been blindness or heart disease. right now, it is an epidemic. everything about what we're doing is creating this massive problem. i guess that maybe i am the optimist. it is inconceivable to me that long before 30 years from today , we will watch that one out -- what that one out. all the great debate, today, takes a snapshot of our current tools and where is the debate about foreign research into wiping out the cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes. >> are you talking about having some kind of manhattan project mentality on these areas? >> when we get serious about solving

one of the countries in the world still has polio. this is india, pakistan, and afghanistan.e reached out to the international and regional community. i will close on this to say that there are the seeds of success within the leadership of afghanistan and the government itself, and their people, if we can just keep finding the right people to support, and work with, and replicate that success. that is why we have gone the next step to provide the host- country contracts, to take responsibility and accountability, the shared responsibility to deliver goods to their people, which is also, a secret of their success. they share the delivery responsibility with the locals -- and the international partners, to deliver the services and take this with private, public partnerships. there are models that are working, that have been audited, that we believe that we can expand to the other sectors. >> i agree with what he has said and that is the perspective of the development professionals. they ask what people actually need, and where is the leadership and how do we cultivate this. dip

in the decades since, our nation's development efforts have helped eradicate smallpox and reduce polioand river blindness. we have helped save millions of lives through immunizations and made oral rehydration therapy available globally, greatly reducing infant deaths. we have helped educate millions of young people. we have provided significant support to countries that have flourished in a number of sectors, including economic growth, health, and good governance -- countries like south korea, thailand, mozambique, botswana, rwanda, and gone up. -- ghana. and we have supplied humanitarian aid to countries on every confidence in the wake of hurricanes, earthquakes, famines, floods, and other disasters. americans can and do take pride in these achievements which have not only helped humanity but also helped our nation project our values and strengthen our leadership in the world. these efforts have not been the work of government alone. most people do not realize that we contribute less than 1% of our budget to foreign assistance. the balance is made up by the generous spirit of american

have affected that great analysis, they didn't know that salk would come along and vaccination and polio is gone and small pox. today, for instance, they have this great set of predictions about the crisis and the costs of health care in 20, 30 years, but today in the united states, 30% of all reimbursement is directly or indirectly related to diabetes. the acute condition and insulin shock or the long-term effects almost everybody that is on dialysis, long-term is because they spend too many years or decades as a difficult bet he can or people are 17 -- diabetic, but does anybody believe that 30 years from today, people are going to be getting diabetes? right now it's an epidemic. kids are obese. maybe i'm the optimist. it is inconceivable to me that 30 years from today just as we wiped out other diseases and if you wipe out one, it will be wiped out. . . and where is the debate about forei research into wiping out the cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes. >> are you talking about having some kind of manhattan project mentality on these areas? >> when we get serious about solving problems,

health care getting out of control, they would have predicted that we just got through this massive polio academic, but technology got us to where we build these iron lungs. something might have affected the great analysis. they did not know that the vaccination would come about. today, they have this great set of predictions about the crisis and the cost of health care in 20 or 30 years. today, in the united states, 30% of all reimbursement is directly or indirectly to die due this. people are 17 times more likely to have been blindness or heart disease. right now, it is an epidemic. everything about what we're doing is creating this massive problem. i guess that maybe i am the optimist. it is inconceivable to me that long before 30 years from today , we will watch that one out -- what that one out. all the great debate, today, takes a snapshot of our current tools and where is the debate about foreign research into wiping out the cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes. >> are you talking about having some kind of manhattan project mentality on these areas? >> when we get serious about solving

in the decades since, our nation's development efforts have helped eradicate smallpox and reduce polio and river blindness. we have helped save millions of lives through immunizations and made oral rehydration therapy available globally, greatly reducing infant deaths. we have helped educate millions of young people. we have provided significant support to countries that have flourished in a number of sectors, including economic growth, health, and good governance -- countries like south korea, thailand, mozambique, botswana, rwanda, and gone up. -- ghana. and we have supplied humanitarian aid to countries on every confidence in the wake of hurricanes, earthquakes, famines, floods, and other disasters. americans can and do take pride in these achievements which have not only helped humanity but also helped our nation project our values and strengthen our leadership in the world. these efforts have not been the work of government alone. most people do not realize that we contribute less than 1% of our budget to foreign assistance. the balance is made up by the generous spirit of america

of health care getting out of control -- it would have predicted we just came through this massive polio lungs, some people did not die anymore. half the people in the world or the country would be taking care of the other half and were going to live their normal 60 years, but lying down in a giant steel drum with ellis -- something might have affected that great analysis. they did not know that jonas salk was going to come around and give everybody a have -- give everybody an inoculation. so today, they have this great set of predictions about the crisis in the cost of health care in 20 or 30 years, but today in the united states, 70% of all reimbursement is directly or indirectly related to, for instance, diabetes. the long-term effects, almost everyone on dialysis is because they spent two years or decades as a diabetic. or people are 17 times more likely to have heart disease or blindness, but does anybody in this room believe that 30 years from today people are going to be getting diabetes? right now, is an epidemic. kids are obese, and everything about what we are doing has created