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60 Minutes, 04.05.09

April 5, 2009 4:00 PM

Scott Pelley reports on an outpatient cancer clinic closing due to budget cuts; CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with Ahmad Batebi, tortured for 9 years in an Iranian prison; Morley Safer profiles Dolly Parton; And, Andy Rooney on the National Debt.

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by fariborzzak April 26, 2009 3:03 AM EDT
Ahmad is expired pupit
I hope that cancer patient would be get well very soon.
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by skylar36 April 7, 2009 7:59 PM EDT
I have to tell you, I'm in the healthcare field and I hear of sad cases everyday. This is a national disgrace, people in the United States should NOT BE DYING because care is unavailable to them through no fault of their own. Kudos to Scott for a story that tugs and if it does nothing else gets us all talking about this crisis once and for all.

Losing insurance is one side of the story, the other disgrace are the Drs. who fail to recognize that some of them are part of the national healthcare problem as well.

Can someone let me know how to contact the doctor who is helping out Ovarian Cancer patients in his private practice? Having survived the disease myself I am inclined to help out any way I can.
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by skowen April 7, 2009 9:54 AM EDT
I am so glad that some of this is being addressed. My daughter had her insurance dropped in the middle of her chemo. she has neondoctrine cancer,which is a relentless rare type that has to be kept monitered. When she was 8 of 10 treatments and 3 heart attacks,she had her diability insurance dropped because she dared to work in her life and she made too much to have insurance through medicaid and it will be two years before she can draw her medicare, doesn't that make a lot of sense?? she had to go for 6 months before she had a scan, she has a port that has not been seen to in months! She went to a county hospital and waited for hours and nothing was done. Do we let this go? What is wrong with our system that we can let this happen? she is 38 with 2 kids and raising them alone. She is all they have! They took away all her benifits even the kids insurance, should she have been in the system instead of trying to help herself She would have had food and medical at the least. She is trying to cope with cancer, raise two kids do with out everything to keep somewhere for them to live!! Are there any answers? It breaks a mothers heart!
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by jcandiff April 7, 2009 12:41 AM EDT
dinomav,
Thank you for posting Yolanda's address, I was trying to find a way that viewers could help her. I can only afford to send like 5 or 10 dollars but I hope that a LOT of people will send that much and it will actually be of some help to her.
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by shannons76 April 6, 2009 4:01 PM EDT
60 Minutes is one of my favorite shows and I like to have the option to watch it online, but I have installed the most recent Flash Player and the video still won't go to full screen. Now, I watch CSI and Survivor online and I didnt have to install anything to get the video to go to full screen. So I dont understand why 60 Minutes would be any different? Thats kinda ridiculous! Please, fix this so I can watch 60 minutes in full screen just like everything else!

Thanks CBS!
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by wsegen April 6, 2009 2:11 PM EDT
60 minutes, still doing the good thing after all these years !!! the las vegas cancer clinic story is probably related in some way to the governor saying he would not accept obama money. which he did say. maybe this will come up in the near future. i like your video internet presentation and don't understand why some are complaining.
thanks.
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by Lou1918 April 6, 2009 1:33 PM EDT
Scott,
I liked your story on cancer medical care but felt you missed the real stroy. How is it that we allow life savings treatments to be priced at $50,000 per year? Where is the American Cancer Society (ACS)on this. Is ACS role only to provide fluff information mailings and to help drug companies fund research that when commercialized cost us $50,000 per year. If private enterprize cannot deliver affordable treatments then the government should be researching, manufacturing and delivering these services. The "All the traffic will bare " pricing of these cancer drugs and their delivery to consumers is criminal....thats the real story.
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by gt0 April 6, 2009 1:44 AM EDT
What a sad story about the cancer clinic closing. Not because of the closing, but because these poor ignorant people think they are going to be healed due to allopathic medical treatment. Nothing could be further from the truth. The AMA admits that allopathic medical treatment kills over 300,000 people each year. It's too bad that 60 Minutes won't do a story on this, or on treatments that will actually help people, like the treatment provided by Richard Schulz at herbdoc (do an internet search). Schulz was so good at what he did that the jackboot thugs broke down the door to his clinic twice, and eventually "made him an offer he could not refuse." Alas, CBS knows who pays the bills, and there are no obscene profits in more sane methods of treatment.
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by esguts73 April 6, 2009 1:01 AM EDT
Yeah, no kidding.
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by yamuttya April 5, 2009 10:47 PM EDT
CBS, you're an 80 year old media company.
Why cant you fix your own media player?
Every other network can.
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