. >> last friday, i visited my constituent vera gaskin at her livingston home.mrs gaskin has hepatitis c, having contracted it in 1985 through a transfusion of contaminated blood. she had been diagnosed with hodgkin's disease at the time. of course, her situation is not dissimilar to that of the several thousands of people who also suffered due to the tainted blood scandal of the 1970s and 1980s. sadly, many have passed away since. obviously, i am aware of previous debates in the house on the matter and the statement by the health secretary on 10 january, but this does not bring closure to many victims and their families. will the prime minister personally prioritize this matter, work with the devolved administrations and introduce a proper compensation scheme, thus finally bringing justice to the innocent victims of this terrible tragedy? >> i thank the honorable gentleman for that question. he has had constituents come to him about this extremely difficult issue and i have had exactly the same experience in my constituency. although previous governments had pu

gaskins, and dr. spriggs have been wonderful. we are now ready for our next panel. 35th congressional district in the greater los angeles area. and i'd like to thank all of you for joining me on this panel today. this panel is entitled "surviving the recession and accelerating the recovery." before i begin my remarks, however, i want to thank the chair of the congressional black caucus. mr. cleaver, mr. emanuel cleaver, who you heard from earlier today, i don't know if you know it, but this perhaps wraps up a weekend, a very productive weekend, that we've been involved in. mr. cleaver organized a retreat where we had the opportunity to explore the many issues that confront us to set some priorities and develop a plan of action. so i would like you not only to join with me in giving a round of applause to our chair, congressman emanuel cleaver, but also to all of the members of the congressional black caucus. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> now allow me to take a moment to introduce our distinguished panelist who are

gaskin, you knew my question was coming to you; right? you made a very potent, moral and ethical argument for why not cutting programs like medicare, medicaid, s-chip, and so forth. you have a powerful economic one i know. >> uh-huh. >> in the affordable care act, we are modifying medicare, for example, through the things that you mention, the accountable care organizations, the medical homes, and through prevention. and there's one study that showed that kind of prevention could save between $652 billion to $1.4 trillion over 10 years in medicare spinning. -- spending. you authored another report which showed that if we eliminated health disparities we could save $1.24 trillion over four years. how can we use these studies to make an argument an impact how we go about doing the deficit reduction and to compound the problem we don't get to score things like prevention. how do we factor these two reports into this discussion? >> well, i think what we have to do is we have to change the paradigm in the way in which we think about both healt

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for a straight sets victory have to study at least four times before they had a few seconds richard gaskin. wonderful man ruud hall it's will be arriving in chains on saturday as the new manager of premier league's ontario but club wants a top five finish in the dutchman's first season in charge and also hopes to win the champions league in the future what's all the chances russian football right to mock bennett says well it's will be up against it i think you have a lot of problems in chechnya because. basically he doesn't speak russian and i felt a massive culture shock when it comes to that although terek a promising they're going to attract world class players in the side i think that any amount of money will be very difficult a little place even to russia chechnya which has been the site of the brutal fighting in the recent recent years and then terry my win more just on the publicist side the p.r. side of things or an actual footballing side because russian foreign trainers don't really do very well with the exception of hitting an advocate and i think he said he wants them next year

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darrell gaskin. he is an associate professor of health economics at the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health, and is also the deputy director. her -- his primary interest our health-care disparities, safety net providers, and access to health care for minority, uninsured, and other vulnerable populations. he earned his ph.d. at the johns hopkins university. he earned a b.a. degree in economics from brandeis university. dr. william spriggs was the chair of the department of economics at howard university, but is now the assistant chair for policy in the u.s. department of labour. in his role, dr. sprague's brinks -- dr. spriggs brings a unique sensitivity. in the spring of 2008, dr. sprague's co-authored -- dr. iggs code-authored. i have to say, he was also the director of the national urban league think tank here, in washington, d.c., and my former boss, when i worked there. was that, we will go in order that i introduced them, and i ask you to hold your applause until the very end. thank