got the manuscript in the field hospital trying to help the troops and the revolution and sat in benningtonriting this attack on the puritanism in the house he was running right next door to the puritan church so if you go to bennington you won't find the house, they tore it down and put a monument to the more faithful historian in its place. but he finished reading the only article he sold all the land he could and dissolved the company that the family had used all through the period before the war. he held on to 1500 acres in the river valley and that is where his homestead has been found and reconstructed. wonderful land on the river. but he finished his book and he had 1500 copies printed at his own expense only 200 were circulated before the rest were mysteriously burned. some people say that it was god's will and the lightning did it and other people went on state was the printer he was scared to death and was going to be run out of town, too. only 200 copies circulated. they went to the governors, they went to paris where ethan allen was corresponding and who wrote the famous letters

that is from kia morris from bennington, vermont. she says -- and i quote -- "when i was pregnant i had a tooth infection that i had got into my hreufrpl nodes and i needed a root canal but adult medicaid has a $495 cap which wasn't enough. dental care shouldn't be a luxury." what she is saying is that in vermont and in many other states where you do have medicaid helping out for dental care for low-income people, there is often a cap, and that cap is much too low to provide the services that many folks need. the bottom line, mr. president, is that we have a crisis in terms of access to dental care in this country. we lag behind many other countries around the world in that regard. we have many, many people who have no dental insurance at all. some who do have dental insurance, such as my family, have very limited coverage. i think it's about $1,000 a year. meanwhile the cost of dental care is sky-high. we are also going to explore why that is sure. i'm not sure that i understand or many people understand why dental care is as expens