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The movement it would be on the system. that started right here. jail not bail. it changed the course of the civil rights movement and thereby changed the course of h. there was a group of these nine pioneering sit-in protesters who were arrested here in rock hill, south carolina and they did those 30 days hard time on the chain gang. they became known as the friendship nine, named after the black college they all went to here, friendship junior college here in rock hill. and it was not until more than 50 years after they were arrested and did that hard time that jail, not bail, that rock hill...

Well, if they weren't going to pay their bail they weren't going to let these guys just sit here in a jail cell getting fed, they were going to do hard labor. so these young men who got arrested sitting in at a lunch counter in rock hill, they got assigned to the chain gang. hard labor for their arrest, which was remarkable at the time. but that strategic change that those young men made, jail, not bail, that shifted the financial burden of civil disobedience of the whole sit-in movement, the whole movement, so that instead of the financial burden being on the movement it would be on the syste...

Assigned $100 bail, and they decided they would not pay it. the authorities here decided, well, if they weren't going to pay their bail they weren't going to let these guys just sit here in a jail cell getting fed, they were going to do hard labor. so these young men who got arrested sitting in at a lunch counter in rock hill, they got assigned to the chain gang. hard labor for their arrest, which was remarkable at the time. but that strategic change that those young men made, jail, not bail, that shifted the financial burden of civil disobedience of the whole sit-in movement, the whole moveme...

Conversation about health care at this meeting of the governor's association. the real work on health care has less to do with the implementation of the affordable care act and really has to do with the innovations going on across the country to transform the way we deliver and pay for health care. moving away from the old fee for service model and moving towards a model where people get paid whether they are keeping patients well and whether they're doing so at a reasonable cost. >> that is where the most exciting work is going on in health care. >> thank you so much, governor jack howell. ...