dr. richard insel. guest: jdrf and many of us in the field are committed to making sure that drugs sitting individuals with diabetes are affordable. -- saving individuals with diabetes are affordable. we have to make it available for people regardless of the socio- economic background. to make sure that these drugs and devices, which, as i mentioned, are truly blessed in and making it depends -- truly lifesaving and making a difference in people's lives, are affordable. host: marcie from denver, colorado, also experiencing type 1 diabetes. caller: my grandson was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in fifth grade, i believe, and it is a hideous disease, especially as a child and a teenager. one of the things that his mother and i often discuss is nobody seems to really designate the difference between type one and type 2. they just say "diabetes." diabetes has the connotation of people who are overweight, that he too much, don't exercise. i'd -- eat too much, don't exercise. i think it is too bad that there

dr. richard insel. guest: jdrf and many of us in the field are committed to making sure that drugs sitting individuals with diabetes are affordable. -- saving individuals with diabetes are affordable. we have to make it available for people regardless of the socio- economic background. to make sure that these drugs and devices, which, as i mentioned, are truly blessed in and making it depends -- truly lifesaving and making a difference in people's lives, are affordable. host: marcie from denver, colorado, also experiencing type 1 diabetes. caller: my grandson was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in fifth grade, i believe, and it is a hideous disease, especially as a child and a teenager. one of the things that his mother and i often discuss is nobody seems to really designate the difference between type one and type 2. they just say "diabetes." diabetes has the connotation of people who are overweight, that he too much, don't exercise. i'd -- eat too much, don't exercise. i think it is too bad that there

dr. richard insel and scott whitaker, thank you for being on the program. we are going to go live to the senate homeland security subcommittee hearing on afghanistan reconstruction contracts. this being chaired by senator claire mccaskill, democrat of missouri. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> there were decisions made that were made with a myopic look at the mission, not a realistic look at security and sustainability and competency in terms of available personnel to continue whatever money we were spending on reconstruction. i always point out that the contract is probably -- if you read the initial log kept contract, if you look at everything wrong with contrasting, that would be the poster child. people may not remember that the estimates for that contract for the first year were supposed to be under $1 billion. the first year that contract cost us $20 billion. that is just one example. i'm going to try to focus today on reconstruction contracts. the sad thing about this hearing is i have been hopeful, back in 2007 that by this