jon lapook. health czar. >> no.ot in a million years. >> continue to come by every tuesday and help us understand. >> honesty is the best policy. >> your patients need you. your patients need you and we'll make sure that we provide our viewers with what they should say to their representatives to say fix this thing. by the way, in terms of what you should say, we have no bearing on what goes on in the debate tonight. you're talking about what you would like to hear. i have no idea what they're going to talk about. >> very important. we specifically did not talk to anybody about cbs news about what the questions were going to be. i did a deep dive for a couple of weeks and it was really complicated. these are nuggets that we got. >> they're in a bunker over there. >> it's incredible, dr. lapook, you're a doctor and it took you weeks to decipher the issues with the problems with the health care. >> not dissimilar to 2009 and the affordable care act. people didn't know what it was. it was like a thousand pages and very

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jon lapook. >> reporter: in your wildest imagination, did you ever imagine?e got mail" -- >> do you think we should meet? >> meet? >> reporter: knows how to dream up a fairy tale storyline. you have a play that's going to open up on broadway? >> y'all, i know, how amazing is that? how amazing is that? >> reporter: ephron's broadway debut later this month comes directly from the pages of her life. >> he had prostate cancer. it had spread to his bones. the doctor said we have done all we can. >> reporter: delia, you write about the most intimate things. now your life is on the stage for everybody to see. >> that is an interesting problem because i am basically introverted. so this is not easy. >> reporter: she sure makes it look easy. when we first interviewed ephron two and a half years ago, she just finished a best-selling memoir, left on tenth. now she turned that book into a play. >> my husband died. >> reporter: telling her remarkable story of beating the odds. emmy award winner julianna margulies plays ephron. >> now he wasn't going to be here. >> it's a

jon lapook explains. >> reporter: this past spring, joan prum's advanced age and increasing frailty usheredality. >> at 98, it's called new territory. so i think i'm doing pretty well. >> reporter: when you heard the word "hospice," what did that mean to you? >> i thought that unless you were really infirm and bed ridden, you wouldn't be a candidate for hospice. but turns out not to be true. >> reporter: health are teams provide comfort to hospice patients expected to live no longer than six months. as with all palliative care, they decrease pain and increase quality of life. but with hospice, attempts to cure a person's illness are stopped. some people are afraid of that word. hospice -- >> oh, indeed, indeed. i just thought mentioning hospice, beginning of the end. >> reporter: founded 50 years ago, connecticut hospice was the first in the nation and oversees joan's care. barbara pierce is the ceo. so it's really hard to predict how long somebody has to live. who makes the decision? >> the patient. the patient and their families. >> reporter: routine hospice services average about $200 a

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