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15.7% in 2011. and for the first time in a decade, the percentage of people with private insurance did not drop. census officials cited two major factors driving down the uninsured rate. the number of young adults ages 18 to 25 dropped 2%, that is largely because health reform, the affordable care act, allowed kids up to age 26 to stay on their parents' insurance, which has kept an estimated 3 million young adults insured. and the number of americans covered by government programs such as medicaid has expanded. there are a lot of things government doesn't do well. but one thing it does know ho...

Recently. i know you were in that region and followed it closely. what is your sense of where the arab spring is going at this point? both egypt and libya are countries that had very, very dramatic changes of regime. it's not entirely clear how the political ground will settle. what does today say about where it's going, or does it say really nothing about where it's going, as of yet? >> well, today's events, you know, i think should and can only be considered a setback, but i would say the overall trend, i would say, is cautiously optimistic. there have been successful elections in libya and ...

Ten libyan security guards reportedly died defending the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi. thousands of libyans staged counterprotests today in a show of o support for the united states. many of them held signs thanking ambassador stevens for his service, and the libyan government was quick and forceful in its condemnation of the attacks. that, at least, is the situation in libya. in egypt, the conditions are much different. more protests against the offending anti-muslim film have been called for tomorrow. there have been no statements by the transitional government in egypt, not about the...

Ambassador chris stevens is not even buried yet. he has a grieving widow, a grieving family, and the other three persons who lost their lives, two been identified. one has. and to start making partisan play out of this tragedy, at this point, is insensitive. >> going forward, and as you say, it is a delicate moment, what needs to be done under either president in terms of outreach to the muslim world? i mean, it's -- there is an understandable tension here in the foreign policy, where people look at things like this, and they look at these mobs that gather for a youtube video, and they say, ho...

15.7% in 2011. and for the first time in a decade, the percentage of people with private insurance did not drop. census officials cited two major factors driving down the uninsured rate. the number of young adults ages 18 to 25 dropped 2%, that is largely because health reform, the affordable care act, allowed kids up to age 26 to stay on their parents' insurance, which has kept an estimated 3 million young adults insured. and the number of americans covered by government programs such as medicaid has expanded. there are a lot of things government doesn't do well. but one thing it does know ho...