that city is rockford, illinois, an old industrial town outside of chicago. rather than using a health insurance company, rockford has, for years, paid its own healthcare costs for its 1,000 employees and their dependents. when rockford got hit with the drug bill, it was so enormous, the mayor at the time set out to understand why. >> larry morrissey: everybody's asking the question, "why is healthcare so expensive?" because the fix is in. that's the answer. that's the short answer. >> stahl: when larry morrissey was mayor of rockford, he was hit with a crisis: the city was bleeding money. you found out that the health care budget was going bust. >> morrissey: yeah, the budget was out of control. >> stahl: and you had to squeeze other things. like what? >> morrissey: hiring police and firefighters. keeping fire trucks and other equipment on the streets. we started realizing that pharmaceutical costs were skyrocketing. >> stahl: and i heard that it was just one drug. >> morrissey: one particular drug, called acthar. >> stahl: in 2015, two small children of roc

michael is calling in on our democratic line from rockford, illinois. caller: good morning. i have been watching c-span for years now. particularly, this past week, you have had some guests on who i am wondering, are the democrats going to show up to the polls this time? will they show up to the polls and vote? 2016, thelection in problem is the democrats voted 3 million votes more for hillary clinton, and she lost. does that make any sense? what do they have to do? they go to the polls, they vote, and they still lost. host: some other headlines today, "the washington post" reporting about the president signaling about hostages held in north korea, calling it a cliffhanger. "as he sought to build anticipation for his high-stakes summit with kim jong-un, president trump has delighted in trapping tantalizing hints about where the meeting will take place, maybe the korean demilitarized zone, and what can be achieved, cap say peace treaty. the president, without direct prompting raised another possibility, noting that three american prisoners have been held in a north korean lab

carlos calling from rockford, illinois, you have under $50,000 in student debt. was college worth it for you? caller: sometimes i do wonder, honestly. i was always really good at school, so i do not see that i could've done it any other way. sometimes i wonder, because all of the jobs i have ever had, there has always been people sitting right next to me that did not have college degrees. i do wonder sometimes. previously, i did work for a for-profit university, colorado technical university online, so i had that experience. i also worked for a private company that used to file paperwork for people selling these loan forgiveness programs. i would like to tell people that the loan forgiveness program is free. it comes from the department of education. you do not have to pay for it. now i work for a private collection agency that does student loan debt collection. most people do not realize there these income-based options for people to take advantage of. everybody that is in default right now, they need to rehabilitate their loans so they need to set up voluntary

. >> the former mayor of rockford, illinois says the cost of just one drug threatened to cripple hisin 2001, it sold for about $40 a vial. today? more than $40,000 a vial. in the entire city, just two babies needed it. >> we were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for these sick baby cases. >> close to $500,000-- >> combined, yeah. >> --is what we heard. combined, yes. >> yes. >> syria's orphans are often children who have been brought into the world a second time.

apparently this deer in rockford, michigan is trying to get into shape and it did so by running straightgym, crashed through the window. the gym says it ran around the lobby for a little bit and ran out the front door. this time the door was open. the deer seemed to be okay and no people were injured in all of this. the window on the other hand -- >> probably deer saw itself, and i don't know. >>> cutest video that we saw on this kindergartner in texas. this is asher bates, listen to him. this is him greeting every one of his classmates in kindergarten. the video has gone popular, but this is something, ah, with the hug. this is something they do in the class there for kinderrten every day. there's somebody different who acts as a greeter. >> they shake hands or hug. >> they captured him greeting his classmates. >>> and over to boston now where you know the baby bjorn, they help parents carry the babies. i think this mother possum wished they made ones for possums. here she is trying to carry seven baby possums. she looks like she's struggling a little bit. >> she is struggling, man, ah,

costs more than $38,000 now a vile the report this weekend focuses on a lawsuit filed by the city of rockfordwo patients treated with this totalled half a million dollars, and the lawsuit targets express scripps. they sold that business in november, but "60 minutes" reports on how businesses in the health care supply chain all benefit from higher drug prices suggesting that pharmacy benefit managers as they have been so often in the last few years will be in the cross hairs. in a statement, mallickrodt says no city in the law constitutes the law and should be dismissed in the entirety. they say that since it acquired the medicine, it's made, quote, only modest price adjustments in line with the pledge on drug pricing in which it vows to price drugs responsibly. this is not an unusual story, kelly, you see the price hikes over the last few years, a lot of people know about this, and it's interesting to watch sun night. >> do you know what accounts for the disperty, they claim they raised from nothing to thousands of dollars, and others say it was already high >> the major price increase was in

whether it's in rockford, st. cloud, or forest lake, minnesota, i consistently hear from small banks and credit yubes that want to be that next critical source of capital and support for families, businesses, and communities arn the state. this bill will allow them to be just that. i thank chairman hensarling for his tireless work on the legislation and knowing full well our work here is far from complete. i urk my colleagues to make history today. support giving more americans the opportunity to achieve their american dream and pass senate file 21556789 i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. waters: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. hensarling: i'm pleased to yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from maine, mr. poliquin, the author of two provisions in s. 2155, the senior safe act and supporting capital formation for small companies. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for a minute a

carlos calling from rockford, illinois, you have under $50,000 in student debt.as college worth it for you? caller: sometimes i do wonder, honestly. i was always really good at school, so i do not see that i could've done it any other way. sometimes i wonder, because all of the jobs i have ever had, there has always been people sitting right next to me that did not have college degrees. i do wonder sometimes. previously, i did work for a for-profit university, colorado technical university online, so i had that experience. i also worked for a private company that used to file paperwork for people selling these loan forgiveness programs. i would like to tell people that the loan forgiveness program is free. it comes from the department of education. you do not have to pay for it. now i work for a private collection agency that does student loan debt collection. most people do not realize there these income-based options for people to take advantage of. everybody that is in default right now, they need to rehabilitate their loans so they need to set up voluntary in

and then the city of rockford suing a drugmaker.urance plan taking up 2.5% of the entire budget. the babies were being given a drug to stop spasms. it was made by a company in the drug used to cost $40 a dose. the company raised the price to $36,000 in recent years. the stock as you can see in the screen is done a lot the last couple years. by the way, take a look at the low. wall street expectations off almost 2% and then there's been a disaster as snap. hired an amazon effect. they let the wolf is integration will be their new chief financial officer. more bad news. nevermind that davis cannot. most facebook users and they've remained loyal and they will not leave facebook. now there is the big news. new york attorney eric schneiderman resigned after being accused of violence against several women. of course a huge critic of president trump. he was a rising star in the democratic party and the question now is who will replace him. the judge is coming out. congressman shelby recently at the border in texas. he's going to give us a