twice he almost lost maryanne. but by 11:50 a.m. maryanne had a pulse and her color was improving. at 11:52, 11 minutes after the defribillator was turned on, it had saved her life and was turned off. maryanne then was taken by helicopter to mercy hospital in mason city, iowa, where she received care. one week later -- just one week later, she was back home with no permanent damage. the defribillators are only effective if they're used within minutes of cardiac arrest, which means that in order to save more lives, there needs to be more of these devices. but, you know what this bill would do about all of that? it would increase the cost? meaning that there would then be fewer defib lators. you understand the laws -- defribillators. you understand the laws of economics, if you lower the price you'll get more of it, if you raise it, you'll get less of it. you raise the price, it would make it difficult for police departments, schools and other public places to purchase defribillators to have one and if you have to be within five minutes of their use, you understand why they have to b

. >> host: maryanne hanson junior on twitter this morning as this. he says that i think the system has failed but we need to learn from and improve on it to make sure it doesn't happen again. santa rosa, california. on our democrat line. >> caller: hi. >> host: good morning. >> caller: i can't help but think about dick cheney and now he's been talking about how barack has not been on the watch instead. he has had eight years that taken care of this problem, and it didn't get fixed on his watch. so they should be blaming barack for anything that's going on now. this should have all been tired out way -- you know, really small things in some ways, you know? they should have been taken care -- we should get cheney to fix it for us now that he's got such a big mouth before. so, okay. that's it. >> host: lewiston, michigan. you are next on our independent line. >> caller: hi, good morning. happy new year. >> host: thank you. >> caller: does a couple things that are going to. it's not a political issue that it's not a partisan issue. it's a people issue. t