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Are spending so much less and their health is better than ours. Not only do we spend more, we actually get worse outcomes for what we spend than other countries. They were looking at this data as well. They decided to do something different, they wanted to look at per Capita Health spending with an add per Capita Services and benefits spending to the graph. When they did that, the u. S. Is the big spenders and everybody else is down the other side. When they added social benefits mending, they found the u. S. Was in the middle of the pack. We were no longer the big spenders. When you have heal...

Week, what it means as far as that Campaign Going forward in the Alabama Senate race, and if you think those comments from the president were appropriate. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Alabama residents and voters, if you want to give your specific perception, 2027488003 is the number to call. You can always post on our twitter feed, cspanwj and on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Well take you back to just before the thanksgiving break at the white house. President trump addressing reporters before he took off for florida, was aske...

Thank you again. On the next washington journal, margot sangerkatz joins us, looking at Health Care Insurance and costs. Then Sharon Epperson on the 80th anniversary of Social Security and what the future holds for the program. Later, a conversation on the u. S. Foster care system, with the director of policy reform and advocacy. Well also take your phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets. Washington journal, live each morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan. With the senate in its august break, well feature brook tv programming week nights, starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. For the weekends, here ar...

It just fell together as i went along. I think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. And i knew i didnt want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldnt make a life. I wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. And at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasnt sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i went back to vietnam in 1989, it was the first time and i traveled with a small group from hanoi all...

Cared about words a lot, and so you stayed out of his way when you were editing him and basically in my experience was you said yes or no to what he wanted to do, and you could say no, and its not for us, and but i like to say grow gore vidal. I was going to speak of someone else in the protradition of great writers and essayists contributing to the nation. Tony cushner, who i brought on to the editorial board, he in 1994 was so incensed by Andrew Sullivans piece on the case for gay marriage because it was in a very participatory aroundal capitalist, militaristic framework and we talked about ...