that report is called unequaled treatment. it got an enormous amount of attention and is largely regarded as a authoritative study. however, i wanted to outline some of the methodological problems with it. that study had an emphasis on the clinical encounter and concluded that there was bias among physicians towards minority patients. overtly as well as subtly. and i think that report really was almost a watershed point in the -- in the dynamic of this debate because it really catapulted from a health issue to a civil rights one as i said with the different kind of remedies applied of sensitivity training for doctors and affirmative action and title 6 challenges. the main problem with the institute of medicine report is that it sought to prove bias or discrimination. and i just -- i speak from the standpoint solely of methodology. this is an almost impossible phenomenon to prove using retrospective approaches and using large databases, it in a sense charging a bias is a diagnosis of exclusion. it's the kind of thing you arrive

he was a bright guy, he was an extraordinary leader, and washington, who was almost unequaled in his ability to judge other people and to judge them very quickly, came to c. green as his best general. as early as 1776, washington had indicated that if something happened to him, he'll congress would name green as his successor. in october 17, '80, suggested green be named the commander, and green wage a brilliant campaign over a period of 100 days in january, february and march, of 1781. i think it was the most brilliant sustained campaign waged by any american commander during a war. it was modeled somewhat on washington's campaign in trenton and princeton. green had been part of that. so he was familiar with that. but this was a longer campaign. trenton and princeton had been a campaign that lasted less than 10 days. green's campaign lasted more than 100 days and went beyond that. by march of 1781, green has succeeded in causing enormous attrition in general cornwallace's army. korenwallace lost 40% of his men between january and march. at that point, korenwallace, in late march of

a separate and unequal is not a justification for a justice to set the policy. i would seek brown and versus biboard of education as a supree court saying the constitution of the united states guarantees every american eagle protection under the law. they found that in segregated schools, as some people were told they must go to this school because of their race, and some people must go to this school because of their race. it was not equal. there were several constitution issues there. i do not think that was an active policy making decision. these separate schools in which a person was mandated to go to one of the other based on their race violated the equal protection clause of the united states and they found it was not equal. with regard to lilly's case, my democratic colleagues have talked about this case a lot. i would just say that everybody knows it is a universal rule that whenever a wrong inflicted upon an individual, they have a certain time in which to file their claim. it is called the statute of limitations. evie do not file it in the time allowed

they're unequal. some men are fit to be slaves and our cornerstone would be human inequality. and it does not get clearer than that. and bill always loved a good argument well made, and harry certainly did that, and i think that was part of the process of bill changing his views on that issue. yes, sir. >> as one of the 20 people who wrote to you when you were in high school in rochester in 1970, i thought i would ask a youth-oriented question. i could picture a bill buckley graduating from yale this month, writing an updated version of god and yale buttite knock sure if he would have founded the national review. would he have used the other media or founded the national review. >> well, that's an excellent question, and it's a very deep question about people's talents and people's opportunities. bill had brilliant skills as a journalist. at 750 words at the top of his game, just didn't get better. and that was the form that existed in the years that he lived and worked. on television, he was made for the television era that he entered and that he transformed. remember, firing

because it will begin to close many of these tragic disparities that there was a report in 2002, unequal treatment, many of those recommendations which again our nation's leading health disparity elimination experts chickened. this was, remember, in 2002. we are now in 2009. so we're sending a very clear message that health care equity, disparities must be included in any health care reform bill that we debate and that we work on this year. because in the end, the inclusion and hopeful enactment of health care reform must leave no one behind. and that is what we are here to talk about today. so thank you again very much. i want to thank all of the members for their hard work on this bill because of this is in such a long process. but i think we have come together with an excellent bill and we will be introducing a very centered so congresswoman christiansen now will come forward. she is our physician, medical doctor, from the virgin islands who has championed this with our tri-caucus for many, many years and will be the leadoff. congresswoman richardson. thank you. >> thank you so much.

a city that was far more divided and unequal between classes.t created a city that was far more focused on the center, on manhattan as opposed to the outer boroughs which really lost out in this calculus. so a kind of new form of centralization. i think it created a city that -- you know, what i focus on in the book is how marketing and media were used in concert with these new priorities, these new political and economic priorities and so it also created a new kind of imaginary, a new identity for new york. no longer was it this, you know, famed working class capital. now it became really represented as a more elite, luxury-type city and a city that could be, you know, prominently placed in advertisements in association with products that wanted that kind of cachet. >> in fact, in your book, "branding new york" you talk about a very famous brand, i heart ny. >> that's right. >> what was the effect of that? >> well, i think that campaign kind of had two phases. in the initial phase of that campaign, this famous campaign that was designed by melt

we do have his statement, so we would hope that you'd pick up a copy of the recommendations in the unequal treatment report on health disparities which is, i think, included in the statement. congresswoman allard has a few brief comments. >> yeah. i wanted to make another point about why prevention is so important because we all know that prevention saves lives, and it improves health outcomes leaving our families and our communities stronger and more resilient. and it also has the potential to save our nation precious health care dollars. for example, the trust for america's health concluded that an investment of $10 per person, per year in proven community-based disease prevention programs could yield a net savings of more than $2.8 billion, billion annually in health care costs in one to two years. that figure grows to $16 billion annually within five years. so, clearly, in terms of the outcomes of having a healthier nation, we need to have prevention as a part of any health care bill, and with regards to the effort to save money, prevention is key in that aspect as well. so it is clear

it was unequal but people could get jobs. the auto industry, as an example. the world has changed. the school system hasn't changed for it. we have to have higher expectations for our young people. parents have to know that it isn't what they think their child needs today for a job today, but their child is going to be looking for a job ten years from now, 20 years from now, have to get more education to do it. so we have to do a different job than we've ever done before. and that's why we called it the opportunity equation for everyone. >> whazzwha has the obama administration said and is there policy enough for you? >> the bokes has put a strong em-- obama administration has put a strong emphasis. he spoke at the national academy of sciences and called for this level of mobilization. but i think the key place where you see the obama administration pushing this is in the support for higher standards in english, math, and science, across the board. but the work more so -- i don't mean not to answer this but it's both the states that are also pushing this right now. the council of c

years after passage of the civil rights act, moderate health care is both de facto, separate, and unequal -- minority health care. segregated hospitals was the original motivation for title six legislation. the new focus on the geography of minority health care should not be taking attention away from the clinical accounting. if we could fully eliminate disparities within the clinically counter -- encounter, the house of blacks would improve but would still lack -- black behind whites. -- the health of blacks would improve but would still lag behind whites. targeting quality improvement with minority providers will dramatically reduce blood-wide disparities in care and would improve the health of both minority and white patients, but the gains would disproportionately go to minorities. in the context of ambulatory care, my collaborators at dartmouth and i estimate that improving the performance of the 500 largest minorities serving networks would improve minority health care more than a complete elimination of racial disparities within every provider in the united states. indeed, given th

. >> is the prime minister in paris that britain is now a more unequal country than any time since the 1960's? -- is the prime minister embarrassed? >> mr. speaker, we have taken millions of people out of poverty. we have taken children out of poverty, and we have taken pensioners out of poverty. we have set new targets for child poverty and for pensioner poverty. as a result of this laboutr government, try a benefit has been raised, working families tax credit has been introduced, and child tax credit has also been introduced, and taking one put 5 million people out of poverty in itself. >> while i welcome the prime minister's attack on the abuses of expenses, which have so revolted members of the public, will be also take actions to curb the dependence of many members on set and incomes? i have calculated that the conservative front bench alone has 57 other sources of income up to 250 thousand pounds. will not be better if, instead of an alternative government with 57 varieties of special interest, that we all concentrated on the job which we are elected to do? >> mr. speaker, i thin

their bravery, their nerve, is unequaled anywhere in our country. they live to serve and protect our freedom and our homes. and two nites ago about this time of night, officer henry and other undercover houston police officers met with four people in the parking lot of a drug store. these four theesks were buying stolen tv's in a sting operation by the houston police department. things started going downhill in this operation right after the money changed hands. after the transaction, officer canal he is, working undercover, worked around to the front of the truck that a suspect followed and drew a weapon. gunfire rang out in the silent night air and the officer was shot. a second undercover police officer, officer r. lopez, with went to help his fellow downed officer. lopez was team. ing to sub due and handcuff the shooter when the suspect fired at least two more times. lopez returned the fire. the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene and officer lopez was not injured. by the way, madam speaker, the shooter and two other of the bandits were ill

there was a report in 2002 unequal treatment, many of those recommendations which again, our nation's leading health disparity elimination experts championed. this was a member, in 2002, we are now and 2009. so we're sitting in a very clear message that health care equity, disparities, must be included in any health care reform bill that we debate and that we work on this year. because in the end, the inclusion and hopeful enactment of health care reform must leave no one behind. and that is what we are here to talk about today. so thank you again very much. i want to thank all the members for their hard work on this bill because this has been such a long process. but i think we have come together with an excellent bill, and we will be introducing it very soon. so congresswoman christiansen now will come forward. she is our physician, medical doctor from the virgin islands who had championed this with our [inaudible conversationstri-cau. >> thank you. thank you and all of our other great chairs for your outstanding leadership and my tri-caucus colleagues for your untiring efforts on b

our brave men and women are unequal in the world. they are educated, motivated, but they are tenacious. they bleed red, white and blue. they meet and exceed any task our country sends them to accomplish with great skill and with great pride. they are america's backbone. our heroes, the best of our nation are amazing examples of the youth of this country. jarrett was a proud and accomplished sold year and at just 20 years of age, he was only one day from becoming a sergeant when he died in afghanistan. texas is proud to have called him a sold year, a son and a hero. he will always be remembered by his family, friends and a grateful nation for his service. his love of country, excellence and achievement and love of his family will be engraved on the hearts of every life he touched. jarrett's wife, his mother and her husband and his father, michael and his brothers, chase, jason, brandon and his sister are living testimony to the memory of this one brave sold year's love of life, love of his country and love of fellow citizens. it's bee

crow which arose in certain parts of the united states after the civil war to create separate and unequal societies for whites and african-americans was a direct result of the racism against people of african descent and was engendered by slavery. whereas a system of jim-crow laws officially existed until the 1960's, a century after the end of official slavery in the united states until congress took action to end it, but the vestiges of jim crow continue to this day. whereas african-americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and jim-crow laws long after both systems were formally abolished through enormous damage and loss of tangible and intangible including the loss of human dignity and liberty. whereas the story of the enslavement and the segregation of african-americans and the dehumanizing atrocities committed against them should not be minimized in the telling of the history of the united states. whereas those african-americans who suffered under slavery and jim-crow laws and their descendants exemplified the strength of human character and provide a model of cour