when you look today at the toils of warren graved in chaps and on the walls of school, and it's astounding flood watch >> reporter: it is astounding, and i think this is really where the sort of interest and the obsession is in british memory stems from. it's almost trying to understand the incomprehensible means that we keep returning and returning to what the first world war was about. moster importantly, how did civilian and soldier populations sustain themselves. how did they survive this? the war continued for 4 and a half years, and it continued on the whole of consent of the british population. this war is as close to a liberal democracy as we found at the beginning o of the 21st century. and they were a liberal government in the out break of the first world war. in early august the government has to keep a balance. propaganda certainly played a very important role, particularly from 1916 to 1917 to the end of the war. there was a clear understanding that public morale in britain, and don't forget the rising, a clear indicause. and so propaganda played an important role in mobilizin

graduating classes from preparatory academies and schools, when you look today at the tolls the warren gravedin chapels and the walls of schools, it's astounding. >> it is astounding, and this is really where the sort of interest in almost the on investigation, if you like, in british memory stems from. it's almost trying to understand the incomprehensible means we keep returning and returning and returning to the question of what was the first world war about? how is it experienced? most importantly, how did civilian and soldier population sustain themselves? how did they survive this? let's not forget the war continued for four and a half years, and the war continued on the whole with the consent of the british population. this was as close to a democracy as can be found at this stage in the 20th century, and the government was a liberal government was the outbreak. although there was serious interventions mainly through the defense of the roll marks passed in 1919 they had to keep the balance of not encrouching too far into civilian life. there was a clear understanding that public poral i

deserves and i hope we can begin the process by focusing a spotlight on this matter of such grave consequence. senator warren. >> i don't have an opening statement. i am eager to get to the testimony and to the questions. >> senator whitehouse. >> thank you for holding this hearing. i thank the chairman for allowing this to go forward because this is an extraordinarily important issue for all the work and fighting that has surrounded the affordable care act, there remains in large fundamental problem in the american health care system which is that it costs 50% more than the most inefficient other industrialized country's health care system in the world. we have an inefficiently premium of 50% over the major economies that we compete with and the price of that inefficiency is paid also in hundreds of thousands of american lives. for all the good that the affordable care act did those problems remain before us and i am delighted to be here. i in particular want to welcome dr. peter pronovost who we have never met before but he is the architect of what was called the keystone project in michigan and -- >> it d