reston care is second to none. as an overall system, we're not anywhere near the best in the world.ur results, our life span. it isn't even in the top 20. >> this is dr. valerie montgomery rice, dean at the morehouse school of medicine. and jonathan gruber and also nancy davenport ennis. dr. rice, let me start with you. one of the things that i think people are going to remember from that documentary is that when you talk about our life expectancy, we're 50th in the world, last in terms of the richest countries. if you look at the causes, especially with regard to that documentary, they say it's, quote, because of a profitable disease care system. what do you think? >> i think it comes down to sort of three things. i think a large part it is personal issues, where we have different behaviors that i think increase our burden of disease, our health care system, we have some challenges with access and affordability. and then clearly we have some social and economic issues that impact people's able to access. if you look at our percentage of insured. when you compare us to those other n

reston portside after a court verdict for last year's football riots while a state of emergency has been declared in sinai over fears that the terrorists might take place there will bring you up to speed on the latest. also traverses hand-picked successor nicolas maduro sworn in as interim president following the funeral ceremony of the late venezuelan leader. and free at last un peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights region have been released and handed over to the jordanian government. eight pm saturday evening here in moscow my name is kevin zero in this is r t n first knows just how it's been plunged into chaos today one protest has reportedly been killed in the capital in the unrest following a court verdict in the case of last year's football riots death penalties have been confirmed for twenty one people will five others receive life sentences for testers torched police and football federation buildings in cairo while the violence rages on imports you're seeing live pictures over my shoulder there now as coach or without his belt truth squad the latest. t

me is struggling to end on reston port which has been engulfed in violence for nearly a week ahead of a second verdict for those involved in last year's football rides. and the cool following russian scientists discover a new unidentified bacteria in antarctica glacial lake vostok which could allow them to shed light on life forms from different planets. around the world on screen online international news and one from the new center here in moscow this is. the people of venezuela will be left with a permanent reminder of their late leader his body it's been announced as will be embalmed and put on public display that's off to world leaders pay their respects at a state funeral ceremony. producer varieties ruptly video agency is that. i'm standing near the military academy where the late president hugo chavez's body is on display in a half open casket and literally hundreds of thousands of people continue our off the how it's a stream and to pay their last respects that is now the media here is obviously very some of it as you can hear also people here celebrate the man who they say n

joining me now is mav reston. people have been bemoaning the effects, l.a.ow it may affect l.a.x., how widespread are the concerns in los angeles, in the southland? >> well, the concerns are very widespread. i think the truth is, as you all have been reporting, is that we don't know what the impact is. l.a. is looking at a hit of about $is 15 million, which is a hit they could probably manage during normal times, but as you know they've been flirting with fiscal insolvency, so money is rately tight. they're looking at potential kits to homeless programs, housing programs, police hiring, so this really has become a big issue in the mayor's race. the airport is already a total nightmare. we're hearing about longer lines in customs and potentially longer security lines a as we look forward to the furloughs for the employees coming up. >>> we were talking about the nay yorral race, bitterly fought, and it looks like it will head to a runoff. >> that's right. >> how much did sequestration come into the race is it? >> the big debate, there's nothing else to talk a

that they probably exempted themselves from this which is you know kind of hypocritical jeremy in reston virginia germy you want to talk about gerrymandering. yes from what i understand thanks for taking my call by the way from what i understand only one of the senators happens is when we are available they're available to change the district boundaries that's our year that ends with am i wrong i mean do i have to wait to go no you need twenty before you know we could sort of get to boundaries correct or that's ok slimmer you know this constitution stipulates that every every ten years every year that ends with zero there will be a census done and based on the census congressional districts will be redrawn so yeah we're going to wait until two thousand and twenty do the damage there and they knew two thousand and ten was common which is why the right wingers started pouring all kinds of money into this stuff in two thousand and eight. and you know any of jose in brooklyn let's just pick up one last call here we just have a half a minute i was a something really quick. yeah absolutely. gr

host: richard in ruston, virginia -- reston, virginia. caller: everybody is about shortcuts. extra six years and that means something. note practitioners are just well enough trained. the uniformity of nursing schools is not the same as the uniformity of medical schools, which are pretty much controlled. i have a number of general felt it practitioners that use nurse practitioners and .hey are dumber than dog-doo i've had three catches of the had three -- i've catches of the uterus -- it is bad enough that doctors don't get all this. nurse practitioners need to be supervised closely. i get suits all the time. the doctor cannot step in and say, you're blowing it. when patients get shia labeouf to a midwife or nurse .ractitioner, that is deceptive those people didn't have the training, keeping up with all of medicine. host: i think we got a good poin. .uest: i am an ob/gyn i have seen at least eight pages they areroid cancer -- not well enough trained to do these things. saying that they are doesn't make it so. tell me out six years is equivalent to 12. and the6 states district

host: from twitter -- don, in reston, virginia is part of the public sector workforce.t do you do? caller: i do outreach and communications for the department of the interior. i find this discussion interesting. i have friends that work in the private sector where it came from. friends are doing the same job i do and they are making $35,000 more per year in cash with better benefits and they have a better retirement. become amployees have last comerica that you can criticize -- are the last group in america that you can criticize. it has changed quite a bit. i have been with the federal government for the last three years. congress talk about and the white house talks about having a discussion and everything is on the table -- it seems like federal employees are the first thing on the table and they don't look all these other millions of dollars in benefits and tax breaks for everyone else whether it is nonprofits which includes the nra, the sierra club and churches and all these people that get breaks on their taxes but when it comes to federal employees, we are the la